Clearly some listened or simply had knowledge the announcement was coming.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-fifth-avenue-...

Its probably not so much that people trust it but either you invest broadly (index funds) and trust long historical data that the likely direction is up or you think you have more information than other people and can beat the market.

Only if you look at American stock market data. And that's extreme cherry-picking, because the American stock market is by far the best performing over the last century. What are the chances the American stock market will be the best performing next century?

So, let me rephrase, do you think it is likely that they would do anything?

I'd say arguably. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_the_second_Trump_ad...

Now, congress can take away that delegation. They could also cancel any declarations. But actions taken by the admin in pursuing this will almost certainly be seen as core duties by the supreme court. As such, I don't see any real opening for review in this?

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1143082727259...

Edit: best to note that Trump is still doing plenty to destroy the US economy, so be careful out there.

> THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!

- @realDonaldTrump today at 6:37 AM PST

> For my friends, anything. For my enemies, the law.

- Oscar Benavidez, Peruvian dictator

Edit: On second thought, he wouldn't even have to, since he already has immunity anyways.

Who would stop them? Certainly not their voters.

Shit like this is why! It deterred them from firebombing the entire goddamn economy to make a buck for their friends and followers!

Are you sure you remember that? Jimmy Carter put his farm in a blind trust, he didn't sell it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/24/fac...

https://www.tastingtable.com/1204239/why-president-jimmy-car...

notes:

>Carter sold all his personal stocks, and he put his interest in Carter Warehouse and Carter Farms into a blind trust.

I’m not trying to ascribe moral character either. Power, status, fame, etc are just so much more compelling.

We need to do something about out of control inequality, such as in the past when we had strong regulations on industry, high taxes on the rich, and pervasive union membership, but lying about what is going on helps no one.

I’m trying to address the narrative I’ve seen a bunch lately that billionaires in this administration already have enough, so we can trust that they wont be financially motivated.

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But the timeline would hardly be immediate. We'd have to go through considerable pain before the government would act.

Yeah, if we lived in that world, Trump would have been removed from office during his first term for all the crimes.

It's worth noting that impeaching and removing Trump from office now would actually take fewer votes than the business of overriding the import taxes he's trying to impose with "Canadian fentanyl is scary" emergency powers.

As a big bonus, voting to remove him entirely leaves everyone far safer. He's gonna have a guaranteed tantrum of scorched-earth revenge no matter what you do, but this way he won't have official power to do it with.

Trump's whole schtick was that #1 - - get countries to negotiate.

Except China. The USA gets 25% of it's bandages from there, and that's no way to prepare to defend Taiwan.

The second order play would be for Trump to tip his associates off that he was going to do this and let them profit handsomely from the bump. Congratulations Mr President: your lackies love you because they profited from fraud but moreover you now have grade A kompromat on all of them in the form of your Signal chat records showing they were complicit in market fraud!