• KnightontheSun@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s all pump-n-dump by design to enrich himself and his backers, but MAGAs don’t know how to play connect-the-dots.

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      5 days ago

      I wonder if even that is giving him too much credit. IMO it’s more likely that people freaked out, so he changed his mind, then different people freaked out, so he changed it again.

      He may well have informed some people in advance about what he was about to do, and they made a lot of money as a result. But, I don’t actually believe that he’s clever enough to have done this intentionally as a plan.

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        5 days ago

        I don’t think him to be clever at all. He has handlers. They tell him what to do. Maybe the things you’ve described happened with the background “brilliant” (I don’t think they’re brilliant either) minds playing 4D chess, but trump is a [cheating] checkers man through and through.

        It is market manipulation for sure though. They just don’t want to tank things too early so they’re riding the razors edge. I am sure there are dissenting opinions on how to do this wonton destruction and what sort of carcass is left behind. This shows up as chaos with his decisions. Again, as in my original post, I only say “his” as he is the mouthpiece for the cabal of evil idiots.

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        5 days ago

        Just because Trump said 90 days doesn’t mean he’s actually going to wait 90 days. What Trump says has zero impact on what Trump does. Trump signed the previous trade agreement with Canada and Mexico last time he was in office that he violated with these tariffs.

        He just said “90 days” to maximize the market bounce. In two days he’ll complain that other countries are not removing their retaliatory tariffs (because real governments value consistency and won’t yo-yo their population like that) and I give him two weeks before he puts them back again. A month tops, but that’s giving Trump way too much credit.