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Showing Original Post only (View all)OMFG NO. Trump's BRO-ligarchs had a bad day on Wall Street. I am visibly shaken over this tragic news. [View all]
I KNOW SOME OF YOU are probably chuckling over this, but YOU TELL ME...HOW is Mark Zuckerberg going to pay for his HOME PERMANENTS now? Do you think that hair is all light and fluffy all by itself? And yet, you mock him. He even bought a new $23 million house in D.C. to be closer to Trump! I think an EMERGENCY OLIGARCH TAX CUT is in order, don't you?
(I'm gonna assume I don't need to insert the "sarcasm" emoji here).
Trumps Trade War Just Came for His Own Billionaire Fan Club
Billionaires who attended Donald Trumps inauguration saw billions wiped off their fortunes on Thursday as the presidents sweeping tariffs on U.S. imports sent global markets into freefall.
The market shock came after Trump announced the new levies on Wednesday afternoon, targeting more than 180 countries and resulting in the stock markets worst single-day performance since the COVID pandemic.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Indexa daily ranking of the worlds wealthiest peopleseveral billionaires who attended Trumps swearing-in on Jan. 20 saw substantial declines in their personal wealth on Thursday due to Trumps escalating trade war.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos saw his fortune shrink by a whopping $15.9 billion as Amazon shares plummeted 9 percent, marking the companys steepest one-day decline since April 2022. The companys stock is now down over 25 percent from its peak in February, according to Bloomberg.
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OMFG NO. Trump's BRO-ligarchs had a bad day on Wall Street. I am visibly shaken over this tragic news. [View all]
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