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wishstar

(5,685 posts)
3. This way, markets won't tank until overnight/tomorrow
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 02:03 PM
Apr 2

seems like I recall him pulling similar stunts in first term where unpopular announcements came after 4pm market close

sdfernando

(5,653 posts)
15. so far today I believe the market is up...
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 02:55 PM
Apr 2

...so gotta get that selling done before the announcement and market crash!

jls4561

(2,196 posts)
4. He's waiting for the markets to lose so the evening news won't broadcast another Drumph disaster.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 02:04 PM
Apr 2

Edit: He’s also working out who gets exemptions. Which means who’s offering him the biggest bribes.

Second Edit: He has to wait until later in the day so his handlers can get the hair and orange face goo exactly right, and also so he they can get the right drug cocktail in him.

617Blue

(1,864 posts)
10. It's all BS. The press will dutifully gather...
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 02:39 PM
Apr 2

while the great man rambles and offers less clarity than currently exists. The press will fail to ask any penetrating questions (like What is the point of this?). The financial media types will twist themselves into pretzels pretending this man isn't dangerously out of control and the entire Admin isn't over the heads incompetent.

Blah blah blah

senseandsensibility

(21,630 posts)
12. He's "perfecting" them
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 02:43 PM
Apr 2

right up until the last minute with his advisors. Heard that gem this morning on CNN. At least they didn't call it "Liberation Day". The media has actually been pretty good about not falling for that.

malaise

(282,822 posts)
14. Looks like his rebirth of America speech is an economic miscarriage
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 02:48 PM
Apr 2

-will be dead on arrival with ‘born again’ price increases for all😀

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