Trump makes flurry of posts as global markets fall amid fears of US recession
Donald Trump posted to social media more than 100 times on Monday in a frenzy of self-aggrandizing messages even as the global stock market fell sharply amid fears that his economic policies could produce a US recession.
Far from rushing to calm troubled waters after markets reacted shakily to his refusal to rule out a recession, the US president instead shared a blizzard of links on Truth Social, the platform he owns, starting at 11.44am ET with a link to a Fox News article about Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, raising defense spending before visiting Washington last month.
After US markets closed – with the S&P down 2.7%, the Dow Jones down 2%, the Nasdaq down 4%, and shares in Elon Musk’s Tesla seeing their worst day since late 2020, falling 15 points – Trump’s account was posting ads for The Apprentice, the 2000s reality show that rescued him from financial oblivion and set him out on the road to political power.
Everyone knows that making a hundred rapid fire posts while a crisis is unfolding is the best way to convey that everything is going to be ok.
Nothing says recession louder than there isn’t a recession from the guy who has a lot to lose putting us in a recession.
Honestly guys ask France for the plans for guillotines they will be willing to share If you ask nicely.
Maybe that’s what the sub in the Halifax harbor is bringing
Conservatives sending us into yet another recession.
Starting to see a pattern here.
Maybe we shouldn’t keep letting the dumbest among us call the shots.
