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BumRushDaShow

(164,771 posts)
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 06:09 AM Apr 2025

Democrats hammer Trump for his weekend of golf as stocks tumble

Source: ABC News

April 6, 2025, 8:41 PM


As markets braced for another meltdown triggered by President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, Democrats hammered the president for spending the weekend golfing rather than responding to Americans' fears that their retirement accounts are plummeting with the markets.

Trump left Washington, D.C., for Florida on Thursday to attend a LiV Golf Tournament dinner ahead of a tournament at his Doral club in Florida. On Saturday and Sunday, he played in a club championship at his Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter.

On Thursday, the first trading day after Trump announced the tariffs, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 4%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq declined almost 6%. On Friday, the downward spiral continued with the Dow falling by 2,230 points, or 5.5%, while the S&P 500 plunged by 6%.

Dow futures opened Sunday evening down 1,500 points, or 4% percent., while the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 futures were also down 4%. Democrats criticized Trump's apparent lack of concern at Americans' anxiety surrounding the tanking markets. "I think people have seen their retirement savings on fire. And there he is out on the golf course," Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency, that is, the president out on a golf cart while people's retirement is in flames."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrats-hammer-trump-weekend-golf-stocks-tumble/story?id=120544114

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Democrats hammer Trump for his weekend of golf as stocks tumble (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Apr 2025 OP
And shithole have no respect for the fallen as well............................ Lovie777 Apr 2025 #1
"My gourmet golf only cost taxpayers $30 million so far." - Krasnov (R-Felon) BoRaGard Apr 2025 #2
America's Nero flailing at golf balls with all the "grace and style" of a twisted windmill in a hurricane benfranklin1776 Apr 2025 #3
As with everything else: When Trump plays golf, the game ruins itself. chouchou Apr 2025 #4
And the country burned elliesmandt Apr 2025 #5
And he doesn't care one whit. llmart Apr 2025 #6
golfs whilst rome burns. AllaN01Bear Apr 2025 #7
FOX news needs a good story. Why not this? twodogsbarking Apr 2025 #8
Nero fiddled while Rome burned, republianmushroom Apr 2025 #9
Does Dump's probation officer know he's golfing? mdbl Apr 2025 #10
"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed! I'm just saying twenty, thirty million dead! Tops!" Aristus Apr 2025 #11
George C Scott in Dr. Strangelove? NT Bozvotros Apr 2025 #17
Yep. Aristus Apr 2025 #18
He doesn't care about what they say about him Owens Apr 2025 #12
The Silence of the RWNM maxsolomon Apr 2025 #13
He couldn't bother to go to Andrews AFB, either. . . DinahMoeHum Apr 2025 #14
"I love chaos" clearly has no use for USA, it's people, it's rule of law, or it's future. The "enemy within" is him. nt Evolve Dammit Apr 2025 #15
The Time Is Now!! Canada Kid Apr 2025 #16
"Democrats hammer Trump..." Yawn. GoYouPackersGo Apr 2025 #19
At least they were out on the Sunday shows BumRushDaShow Apr 2025 #20

benfranklin1776

(6,979 posts)
3. America's Nero flailing at golf balls with all the "grace and style" of a twisted windmill in a hurricane
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 06:33 AM
Apr 2025

While people’s lives burn. 🤬😡
His grotesque sociopathology on full repellent display.

llmart

(17,240 posts)
6. And he doesn't care one whit.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 08:47 AM
Apr 2025

Seriously, he actually enjoys this because it shows him all the power he has.

Never think for one minute that he cares. He doesn't have the ability to.

republianmushroom

(22,122 posts)
9. Nero fiddled while Rome burned,
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 11:20 AM
Apr 2025

the convicted felon played golf while the US and world economy sank. Yup, republican showing us how they govern.

mdbl

(7,978 posts)
10. Does Dump's probation officer know he's golfing?
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 11:32 AM
Apr 2025

He should be in jail. I don't understand this!!!

Aristus

(71,488 posts)
11. "I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed! I'm just saying twenty, thirty million dead! Tops!"
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 11:35 AM
Apr 2025

Owens

(583 posts)
12. He doesn't care about what they say about him
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 12:01 PM
Apr 2025

He wants to bully (and cripple) other countries to give him what he and Putin want. Power.

maxsolomon

(38,073 posts)
13. The Silence of the RWNM
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 01:24 PM
Apr 2025

Every time Clinton/Obama/Biden took a mental health break, Fox et al were on their shit. Obama for playing Golf specifically.

Their hypocrisy and agenda are transparent, but since they operate a closed media ecosystem, they never have to worry that their propaganda victims will learn or care.

DinahMoeHum

(23,310 posts)
14. He couldn't bother to go to Andrews AFB, either. . .
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 01:40 PM
Apr 2025

. . .to visit the families and the coffins of the 4 US soldiers who died in Lithuania.

To me, that was a thousand times worse.

Evolve Dammit

(21,399 posts)
15. "I love chaos" clearly has no use for USA, it's people, it's rule of law, or it's future. The "enemy within" is him. nt
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 02:43 PM
Apr 2025
 

Canada Kid

(257 posts)
16. The Time Is Now!!
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 03:19 PM
Apr 2025

All this verbal BS condemning the IDIOT for not giving a shit and playing golf is not going to solve anything. We need sharp minds to step up and quickly figure out how to stop him and his cronies cold in their tracks. We need him to be removed from office maybe by military means. Someone with a solid knowledge of the law must figure out a way to charge him with serious unrevokable crimes, something that pulls him from the White House and slaps him in chains. Rich billionaires whining, chairmen of the boards wringing their hands, CEO's of stock management companies voicing their worries, all this doesn't cut it.

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