President Trump smartly remained quiet after delivering the economic thunder-shock with his national security tariffs and new global trade expectations. Now President Trump takes questions from the media about the initial reactions to the seismic event he created.
“China needs to solve the problem of the trade deficit with have with them,” is codespeak for China needs to open their markets to U.S. companies that have already established a footprint, AND China needs to purchase U.S. goods. Despite the size of China, President Trump knows Beijing will never comply in earnest, so he gives the Panda a few words, but doesn’t give it too much time until the Dragon comes out from behind the mask.
President Trump notes he has “spoken to a lot of leaders from Europe and Asia” this weekend. However, now is that powerful moment in any negotiation when the principal has clearly outlined his position, then remain silent as the opposition responds. The “tariffs are instituted, they are not going away,” Trump said.
When questioned about having a “threshold” of “pain he is willing to tolerate,” President Trump notes the “question is stupid.” We are responding to opposition who are playing a zero-sum game, there is no level of pain too intolerable when ultimately your survival as a nation is at stake. Either we do, and win – or, we do not and die, that is our current status.
When questioned about having a zero-tariff agreement with Europe, President Trump references the scale of the imbalance. “There’s no talk possible” with the EU unless they acquiesce. Every country wants to make a deal, but “this is not sustainable” President Trump repeats.
When questioned about Tik Tok, President Trump notes there was a likely deal with China, but then Beijing responded to the tariffs and said the deal around the social media platform ownership was no longer possible. Trump doesn’t care, he wants a TikTok deal; but ultimately, the tariffs are more important.
President Trump then weaves through the Russia conflict, bombs are still bad, and the Middle east conflict, Gaza is still full of terrorists, and moves directly into domestic national security.
President Trump then reaffirms he has not agreed to reduce, soften or smooth any tariffs against any nation. The tariffs are in place, they will remain in place, and the global trade reset will continue until America wins. Period.
The remarks were ‘Full force Big Ugly‘ and the winnamins were flying off the shelves for 15 straight minutes. I could not be more proud of our president.
HOLD THE LINE !
👍
👉”wolverines”👈
President Trump knows exactly 💯 what needs to be done and he’s doing what America 🇺🇸 needs 👍👌.
Throughout the day I’m constantly reminded of the words of William Wallace; “Hoooooold”.
or Dan Bongino, “more, more, more!”
that’s good!!! 🙂
“Freeeedoooommmmm”
Agree. Our president knows exactly what needs to be done. I’m very happy to have a couple of bad quarters where my 401K takes it on the chin if we can wipe globalism and NWO nonsense the hell out of here. It’s not like I’m losing any shares – just that shares are for a moment in time [artificially] are worth less than the last couple of quarters.
If you are dollar cost averaging, then you’re buying at a discount.
Right there with you. I keep tellling my friends that are supposedly MAGA, yet complaining about their 401K to shut up and let the adults handle the tuff stuff. I also said, stop looking at your 401K, we have 20 more years to even consider retirement, and with what PDJT is trying to do, we will be in a MUCH better place.
I’m retired already but have a honey badger attitude right now. 🙂
I’m getting whacked in the market but I don’t care. I’m backing the President. BTW, I’ve been whacked several times in my lifetime and the market always comes back stronger.
The way I see it, shame on us for allowing our investments to fund all the bankers wars, greedy big pHarma’s poisons AND the globalist new world order! We deserve a comeuppance!
It’s about time we took control of OUR taxes and OUR investments, not to mention OUR feckless gubmint.
If Wall St feels the pain it is SO well deserved! Come back to the USA.. ..or not.
We. Don’t. CARE.
Complaining that “their” 401k’s, that are being ‘managed’ by Blackrock/Fidelity/State Street, a 3 headed entity of evil.
No sympathy at all. You made your choice to invest with the devil, cause it gave you an illusion of security.
Sleep with whores, get the clap, and then bitch about the treatmemt.
🫢🤭🎯😊
I have *ahem* less than 20 more years to buy in with 401k match, but
a) without the medicine as Trump put it the patient is terminal; and
b) if anyone needed the money now, they hopefully diversified a little and didn’t *need* to sell their Nasdaq index fund right this very minute.
So many people have already noticed that it’s only redundant to point out that the MSM, the financial press, the Dems and the RINOs are screaming about ‘losses’ when it’s really just their faux elites that are getting hurt.
In the meantime my next 401k deduction just bought at a nice price relative to last week.
The Dow may go below 20,000.
DO NOT PANIC.
We may need to go back to 2016 to undo 1913.
It will be worth the rollercoaster ride. And I believe only those who panic sell will get hurt in the end, as measured as of our 250th.
Think Job. All will be restored.
President Trump knows what he is doing. He is in the captains chair. He has this.
No fear.
Hold the line.
I think I need a bumper sticker: Hold the Line
Definitely think Job!
There is nothing, absolutely Nothing too difficult for The LORD!
ABUNDANT BLESSINGS!
Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
Gordon Chang: “Trump’s China tariffs could defeat them economically.”
Video linked…
Indeed. What we all have been waiting for in decades.
Blast Kissinger.
The only US official whose photo or portrait is allowed to be hung in CCP offices. Seriously. I think that’s in one of the books by Peter Schweitzer I’ve read.
I have an intense dislike for that old geezer, RIP.
Something about a big ditch.
Fingers crossed. So many politicians on the take & so much Chinese infiltration is the problem.
President Trump does not have a choice in the matter.
On the one hand,
The Federal Government needs all the revenue it an get it’s hands on for the “cost” of operations.
On the other hand,
All $$ the Federal Govt. “raises” is Constitutionally defined as “public Monies”.
POTUS cannot employ tariffs {external revenue} and continue the theft {taxation} of The People’s national dividend {internal revenue} and expect to retain any semblance of a civil society and/or domestic Tranquility.
Anyone who voluntarily pays one red cent of their earnings to this Federal Government…
Especially since DOGE…
Is a traitor to The United States of America.
The US Dollar belongs to The People…
Not some insolvent corrupt Federal Reserve Bank.
That is the greatest affront to the citizens’ lifetimes of blood, sweat and tears stolen by the Federal Government Of The United States.
The Federal Government declared war on US, We The People, the sovereign authority under the Constitution.
We The People will defund you {Govt}
Seriously,
Is President Trump’s IRS going to throw The People into debtors prison ?
Talk about a legacy killer…
CAPITALISM :
The economic condition in which The People own the capital {public Monies}…
And the Government…
Owns the “ism’s”.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
You mean is ONE problem. The rot and corruption goes to the very core if our nation
It’s not just the politicians (at all levels of government) it’s also all of the other grifters who live well via corrupt self-serving politicians.
It very well COULD defeat China, economically,…but it WILL defeat the Globullusts currently running the EU, I just don’t see any way they can survive this in power.
They will be forced to institute austerity measures, which will doom them at election time, as the populace, already poised to go Nationalist/Populist, does.
And, THATS how Russia gets some reliable securuty assurances, is by a regime change in the EU, with the Warmongers escorted out.
If we break China then, perhaps, they will sell all of the land and property that they have purchased in the USA, call their Chinese nationals home, divest themselves of our universities, and reap what they have sown back in their own country.
If they run out of money then they cannot afford to bribe leaders of countries to sell out their citizens. They’ll need what little money they have to feed their citizens and come up with a way to be wealthy without cheating American citizens.
Vietnam…
Every time I see Lutnick as the smiling wolverine above it cracks me up.
Looks like me before I get my morning coffee 🙂
PDJT could publish a “Tariff counter” that shows how much money we are brining in… that might quell the stock market anxiety.
Frankly, he just needs to ignore the market. The Fed will step in if needed but the whole thing was inflated & needs to come down.
Agreed! I’d rather invest my money with local producers, and purchase their goods.
But, but, “it’s different this time” (TM). /s
Agreed! The Dow, S&P, and all index / mutual funds were far overweight with overvalued “Mag 7” stocks.
very very hyper inflated like our inflation under biden
Its the economic equivalent or effect of “not pretending”; everyone pretended the insane values of the stock market made sense, being blown out of all perportion and relationship to reality with Derivatives, buy backs, Quatitative easing, 0 interest, and other sleight of hand tricks.
Its like we are now gonna quit pretending to believe Uncle Bob pulled a quarter out of my ear, or tbat I believe in Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny or the tooth fairy.
When I went to school, years and years ago, the Stock Market had individual stocks >valued at, — 1. dividend rate, 2. price to earnings and 3. book value. … Now days, people seem to buy stocks with the expectation they will be able to >sell the stocks to someone else and make some money.
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Mark Cuban made billions of dollars from/in the stock market. … a quote from the Internet “Does Mark Cuban invest in the stock market?” ………. “For the most part, (Mark) Cuban isn’t a big believer in owning individual stocks. As he’s said, “I believe non-dividend stocks aren’t much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for them.” However, he changes his tune when it comes to AI-related companies. Feb 1, 2025″
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The Tax Laws in our country made investing in the Stock Market easy, and one of the convenient methods of saving for retirement. … Someone with a retirement account is investing in the Stock Market. … The Stock Market, Fat Cats designed the tax laws to benefit themselves.
“Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered” is an old investment industry saying that warns against being excessively greedy.” (from the Motley Fool.) & Applies to AI related stocks unless a person understands AI and has insider information.
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FYI: My retirement ‘small income’ comes from the stock market and Social Security; both are tenuous sources of income. +Only a fool would have a bag of gold under the bed. A dangerous situation for everyone residing in the home.
(Given information as proof that I am NOT the wizard of investing for the future.)
Show no mercy to them, they are not repentant.
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Claw back all the wealth given / taken away from the USA over yeas and decades!
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This is not revenge it is restoration of wealth the Lord on high intended for the lawful people of our nation.
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Discredit each and every “leader” that made these horrible trade deals.
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Even Ronald Reagan should be dis-reputed in regard to trade and sticking us with a “Service Based Economy”.
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I am not saying to hate anyone but to understand what happened, who perpetrated the ripoff, when it occurred and how.
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These things must be known, so it never happens again.
I would start with Woodrow Wilson.
Yes, Wilson was an prototype / early adopter for globalist with the league of nations.
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Wilson was also an all around scumbag elitist, he seems to have wanted everyone enslaved.
President Trump has mooted getting rid of the federal income tax, replacing it with tariff receipts, harking back to our times as a nation before that onerous, despised Woodrow Wilson abomination., even setting up a “bank” to handle the trillions which will flow through them.
Can’t hope to do that if no tariffs are being paid.
Each piece of the MAGA puzzle connects with another…his shallow, short term “thinking” critics are incapable of seeing the glorious destination and the vehicle he is driving to get us there.
ROAD TRIP!! 🇺🇸👍🏻
(Try to catch up, Cruz, Bacon, and Paul…)
PS…I see Sundance’s “noticing” is being noticed by a wider audience.
And not for the first time…just excellent.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-business-leaders-reject-president-macrons-demand-divest-usa
I used to get a thrill when Rush would mention the Treehouse. Ah Rush, he is here in spirit although the talent on loan from God was called in…
Exactly, thats why I keep saying “See the whole board”; Economic Security is National Security means tariffs are the tool, peace is the prize.
Those sceptics do not believe in American Exceptionalism, which is like saying they don’t believe in Gravity.
And its American Exceptionalism which gives us an inherent advantage unique to our country.
Being such an economic powerhouse, we can leverage that ‘soft power’ to support our National interests.
Interesting to see the names of the vocal, hysterical panickers.
Congress critters with their sanctioned insider trading.
Hedge fund honchos.
Banksters whose compensation packages include millions in stock options.
None of which even acknowledge the ones President Trump has put all on the line for.
They all went after him with vengeful enthusiasm, expecting to eliminate him from their playing field….and have not only failed but strengthened his resolve.
They have unleashed this ferocious resolve, the direct result of the eight plus years of vicious attacks, each one intended to preserve their power and “wealth”.
He has shaken their globalist/corporatist “snow globe” and turned the tables.
What didn’t kill him has made him much stronger, the very thing his enemies never saw coming.
God be with and protect this President of the every day man amd woman cheering him on 🙏🏻
God or a Guardian Angel, tilted his head at just the right second in history…out of 86,400 seconds in a single day…
What are the odds that Mr. President turned his head at just the correct all important second?
86,399 other seconds in that day…and moved his head at the lifesaving second?
Yet, left him with a rather superficial wound…as a reminder? Those who are going after him, need to have a spiritual meditation on this.
No odds, sis…
Go along when “Sundance” says you got to get out of the weeds!
President Trump is conducting a symphony. All the different instruments work together, all with their own parts but blending together to create something much greater and more beautiful than the sum of their individual parts. The tariff, the border, peace negotiations, DOGE, ending DEI – they are all sections of the orchestra.
Trump’s opponents are buzzing on kazoos.
Nixon/Kissenger brought Chy-na into the capitalist markets — Chy-na learned
quickly how to spread their grift to Ameriacn law makers
Yes China was coached by See-I-Ayy operative / Ambassador George H. W. Bush on the art of Washington grift from September 26, 1974 through December 7, 1975 during the Ford Administration.
I want the the biggest ugly of all big uglies!
When looking at the years, be mindful of NAFTA, WTO creation, and when Clinton pushed for China’s membership over many nation’s rightful protests and they received entry. (Clinton lobbying for China was partial payment for the ChinaGate treason which also went into stealing the GOP Primaries and elections, and guidance missile tech)
Trade in Goods with China
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
This is from President Donald J Trump’s use of his “Magic Wand” in his first term. Now wait till you see what his second term Magic Wand does to reverse the economic treason of the Council On Foreign Relations “Free Trade” pushed by the Uniparty traitors Bushes,Clinton, Obama.
America First!
This org is full of incompetent DEI,Affirmative Action, Black Economic Empowerment (South African cultural Marxism) Gender promotions, Marxists, grifters etc etc
World Trade Organization
https://www.wto.org/index.htm
Tariffs not taxes. President Donald J Trump is 100% correct.
“Pat Buchanan’s critics rail against tariffs on imports by saying that tariffs are taxes that cause consumers to pay more. Did it ever occur to them that domestic taxes like income taxes, FICA taxes, property taxes, etc., are tariffs on our own goods?
Whereas tariffs on imports constituted as much as 85 percent of federal revenue up to 1913, today they account for less than one percent. The other 99 percent is a tariff on ourselves. Last year federal, state, and local governments imposed $2.6 trillion worth of taxes/tariffs on our economy. Environmental, civil rights, safety, labor, and monetary regulations have raised labor costs alone from 50 cents an hour in 1935 to $19 today and constitute a tariff of more than 35 percent on our own products.
That being the case, government has a moral and constitutional responsibility to protect those who abide by our laws against any competitor who does not. No one would condone exemption from federal tax and regulatory laws for a corporation that closed a factory in one state and moved to another. Yet when corporations move to other countries for the specific purpose of evading our laws, while sharing in our economic jackpot virtually tax free, they are applauded for raising share values. Anyone who did that in an honest poker game, without having anted-up, would lose his arm.”
On Pat Buchanan and Trade
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/polemics-exchanges/on-pat-buchanan-and-trade/
Yes.
Pat Buchanan was a fair trader…
When it seemed everyone else was
A ‘free trader’.
DJT is on the right track.
I agree with you that President Trump has been stellar since he was inaugurated. This country is truly blessed to have such a phenomenal leader in these perilous times. I have taken to completely ignoring all of the anklebiters on both the left and the right that find fault with everything this great man is trying to accomplish on our behalf. May God Bless President Trump!
Ty and bb. I highly recommend all of Pat’s books and columns. Pat has been one of Pdjt biggest supporters
Pat Buchanan was always over the target with taxes, trade & immigration. The idea behind Income Tax was control of the people. From the moment we won our independence and created our Constitution, the powers that be wanted to destroy our fledgling Constitutional Republic.
1913 Woodrow Wilson signed us to a suicide pact, with glo-bull-ist banking system The Federal Reserve System. It was foisted on the USA and the American people and that evil system has been grinding us down for 110+ years.
The entire system must be ripped out root & branch and salt the earth.
Ty and best to you friend Stan.
It’s reassuring to know we have President Trump to roll the dice for us in the very real life game of “Risk” in which we live. My Pops was a huge Buchanan guy. I wish he were with us to witness President Trump shake up the snow globe.
My pop also my friend.
Everyone in the World wants to do business in America, and everyone in thecworld wants to live in America.
Why in the world WOULDN’T we capitalise on that?
Well there are those who don’t want to work. They want the freebies…we have to sort them out….out the door.
So far he is exceeding all my expectations, Trump v2 is 100% what I’ve been waiting for. Balls out, foot to the floor, flat out. I don’t care if China goes back to the Stone Age, no quarter given. Thank God.
Additionally, oil is below $60 a barrel!!!
How low will it go?
It really doesn’t matter how low the price of a barrel of oil is if we don’t have the refineries to produce the gas.
It is odd that gas hasn’t gone down much but the barrel price has been cut by almost half.
Joe Biden baked in higher employee costs, higher taxes for property, and lots of other goodies. It can only go down so far .
For every patient in the hospital, there are 7-10 administrative type ‘jobs’ involved. It can go down….schools have the same issue.
They are selling the gas they have already refined. “Prices at the pump” always lag the “prices at the well.” They mustn’t lose money on the tankfuls of inventory they already have, just because the price of the next tankful may be less.
Correct, the lag is 90 days
And yet, a crisis of some sort will cause pump prices to jump immediately. How odd.
Here in IL, we have “summer blend”…that’ll do it here.
Gas has gone up in my neck of the woods.
Exactly – we still import oil to refine into gasoline. Trilllons are at stake so the pressure (regulatory and financail) to continue the status quo is unrelenting.
The actual number of refineries is not what matters. The number of them has declined but total refined capacity has increased. Technology moves rapidly in the oil industries.
If oil goes too low, the incentive to explore & produce here slackens.
There are a lot of wells that have been capped, no exploration is required, just uncapping and turning the pumps on will buy quite a few years while oil companies learn to explore for oil within the new price point.
And turning on those capped wells takes a bit of time, too…not sure how long…
President Trump is a man of principles. That’s refreshing among elected officials.
God bless President Trump and his team of happy warriors.
I like the show. Let’s see if 47 holds the line in this tariffs saga. And also when 47 is no longer in power will the new government whoever it is, revert back to the original status quo? I don’t want to get my hopes up. Just watching and waiting. In other news what’s happening with Pam Blondie? Any arrests coming on the evil Deep State actors like activist judges and the Epstein files etc…? MS13 and other illegals are low hanging fruit for the administration the real bad actors are the Deep State folks. If something is done to the Deep State then I know things are changing for real. Other than that this is all a big show to humor and pacify us in the audience. I am not amused!
“… the new government whoever it is…?”
The government is We The People, always has been and always will be.
Here you go:
https://x.com/fbiddbongino/status/1908985710910304259
In the all important Court of Public Opinion, President Trump has his team laser focused on ending the politisation of the Justice system, which means not just to stop it from targeting MAGA, but also NOT feeding the perception that it is still politicised, but just reversing the target, as in “hunters become the hunted”, and instead is being reorganised to focus on its core mission of Making America Safe Again.
Like it or not, agree or not I think its clear by now that any prosecutions of J6 committee, etc will be cast as, and to many look like retribution.
And, it has been decided its more important to restore the DOJ/FBI brand image by focusing on violent criminals.
Maybe later, or maybe with full disclosure of their heinous deeds, some earthly Justice will be meted out, but perhaps exposure, discredit and permanent banishmant from the halls of power, is more important?
we have gone through 4 years of super high inflation under mr. illegal diaper prez. We can wait a few months till tariffs kick in. Stop buying cheap chinese n—–a sh-t people….
People really don’t need the garbage. Its like an addiction! You don’t need Fall, Christmas, Valentine, Easter throw-aways, you need to pray. We should be ashamed at the commercialization of God! Those things don’t keep Americans in jobs. It allows Democrat donating, slave plantations like Walmart to exist. I’d love to see Trump crush Walmart.
“Human history is the long, terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C.S. Lewis
23rd Psalm.
Garage sales and second hand stores are still pretty awesome.
They are melting down on X . Trump is
destroying the economy ( on purpose)
the country is rising up against him.
they talk those protests the other day
Go check out the previous 4 years under Biden and compare that to what Trump has done thus far.
While not perfect, the US had one one of the strongest economies in the world and one of the lowest inflation rates, comparitively speaking.
Trump promised to lower prices on things from day one, and the opposite is happening. I spent $41 at HEB yestterday morning on just a handful of items – that’s ridiculous – and don’t blame that on corporate price-gouging.
People have every right to be complaining right now. I am heartened to see Conservatives starting to complain now, too.
If you AREN’T complaining, you either lack self awareness or Trump can do no wrong in your eyes.
You’re ok with 1 trillion dollars spent on the national debt every year? You’re ok with 36+ trillion dollars of national debt? Neither of those are sustainable. We either take some pain now or our country collapses. This is not rocket science.
Friend go pedal your BS someplace else.
“Mark Stevenson” is our Concern Troll du Jour.
I guess Richard checked out.
If you are complaining then you are very shortsighted and do not comprehend the precipice the USA was about to drive over. President Trump is raising up a flock of gold egg laying geese for our future instead of eating all the geese.
Keep telling yourself that.
You are going to be bigly disappointed, IMO.
Eegit!!! Praise GOD!!! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Its understandable some are complaining.
Studies consistently show 70% or so of American Households have no budget, are living paycheck to paycheck, paying the minimum balance on their debts, and are 1 month away from being homeless.
And these financial Einstiens are criticising President Trumps economic policies.
They should shut up, grow up, and set about getting their fiscal house in order.
My household was unaffected by the 2008 financial crises, and equally unaffected by the 4 years of Bidenomics.
Sure, we paid more at the pump and grocery, but we have enough of a cushion that it just meant putting a little less in our surplus savings each month, and no ‘cutting back’ on anything.
No credit, minimal insurance, no/minimal spending for the illusions of Security, Convenience ir Efficiency, which often charge 1000+% surcharges,…for ILLUSIONS.
A lot of people live outside their means, and are unrealistic as to what their means actually ‘is’…
lol… you are obviously in the wrong place.
We don’t care. We are in for the long term.
We see your Great Reset and raise you a REAL reset. In the meantime we’ve all stocked up on Popcorn to enjoy the show!
Strategic moves cause tactical pain. But also, price changes do not occur so quickly “due to tariffs being imposed.”
Those are still Biden’s price hikes running through the system. Comeback in 6 months and see if you’re still bitching about it!
Are you perhaps related to Carl Stevens?
AI generated handles and proclamations/retorts are cute.
I guess the Death Cult had to resort to Attempted Intelligence to try and rough us up over here! The Truth would break the humanoids they would task with infiltrating and disrupting the Natural Order.
Like!
Take your Bribem bullshit and stuff it back down your FILTHY piehole….
What we the people want is NO MERCY for the thieves that have robbed us…INCLUDING THE FILTHY POLITICIANS who sold us down the river and lined their pockets…
It is obvious you lack courage and vision…..
NO MERCY….
Is this where we “fix bayonets”? Asking for a friend…
The Biden years as the halcyon days of yore? What are you smoking, laddie?
Hmm,..The overwhelming sentiment to ‘hang tough with Trump’ that we see here in the comments section, I see reflected elsewhere in the “alt-right” MAGA media.
Majority of articles and comments are ‘hang tough’ and those articles and comments detracting, are shot down as soundly as what we see just above.
I am confident President Trumps supporters have been through so much for so long, that no attempts to peal us away from him will succeed.
I must say it’s coming together nicely. past experience with the Senate led me to believe it was gonna be a real crap show, but a tip of the hat to John Thune for herding that gang of cats through the door. good job
Now Thine wants payback from President Trump.
He’s asking him to endorse Cornyn over Paxton in the Senate.
Thune
Off topic.
Then that tells me Thune is still a snake. I will NOT vote for Cornyn ever….Paxton all the way.
President Trump shouldn’t have to do this. We’ve been run amok by the people we were told would steer us toward prosperity and safety. We’ve been ripped off on everything, paying highway robbery for ready made junk for the last 27 odd years. It’s past time to do something else. Bravo, Mr. President, Sir!
Benjamin Franklin wrote “Live Free or Die!”
President Trump now says, “Either we do, and win – or, we do not and die, that is our current status.”
Liberation Day is our new Independence Day. It took the United States 44 years to find another leader with iron cajones!
Splinters, beams
BTW, Pete, Walgreens adult briefs runnin’ kinda low, better stock up TODAY, CatDaddy, ya know, supply chain and all…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-is-gaslighting-us/ar-AA1ClvKZ
Go away.
Never thought of the Panda – Dragon dichotomy… so true We made it through the 5o years of hell from Nixon to Bidumb… TY YaHaWaHa
If we don’t institute Election Integrity, this will all get reversed in a few years.
Though my portfolio has taken a hit , I fully support the end of the Marshall Plan . The first nations that reform will get the best deals . Europe will resist because they are the biggest abusers .
Russia ? Why does Europe want to push Russia into China’s influence ? For the US , I’d rather befriend Russia as a checkmate on China – leaving Europe a group of nations a hot mess.
Today is buy date . Oil ? SPR refill will kick into high gear .
“Portfolios” take a hit, and then they bounce back. It is the way of things. Don’t be a “day trader” about it.
Start thinking today about the companies who are going to prosper by building and refurbishing domestic industrial plants here. Companies that go into an existing building that’s sat empty for forty years, rehabilitate it and bring it back up to code. Shipping companies are going to lose business, and railroads (even short lines) are going to gain. And, so on.
your day trader analogy is excellent.
looking down the road a bit is the way to find the upside
in this correction IF one chooses to sink funds into the market –
it’s certainly not required, and it’s highly speculative (think: rigged), and not sure if the big boys like blackrock are going to
support Main Street, but i completely agree with what you outline.
and with interest rates stagnant, the savers are keen to find a better return somewhere.
let the side bettors (hedge fund managers) cry into their mojitos,
i think individuals like yourself are far better at ferreting out REAL value in the coming days.
By “Europe” you mean the current leaders of the EU, but their fate is already set.
Just as the Lawfare against President only increased his support, Frances lawfare against Marine assures her victory, the AFD is likewise climbing, and Reform in GB.
Security assurances FOR RUSSIA, are only possible when the current EU leadership are driven from power, and replaced by pragmatic N/P leaders who have no designs on comquering and pillaging Russua.
First thing I thought of:
I believe that the battle portrayed was the first time that armored cavalry was defeated by foot-soldiers.
The belief in the Middle Ages was that armored cavalries could not be defeated by foot-soldiers.
That belief was wrong!
Sound familiar? 😇
“Braveheart” was almost a documentary of the battle practices of those times. Meticulously researched and staged. They spent more money that they had to, to get it right.
The men and women of those times would be horrified to see what Scotland is today.
Arab/Moslems everywhere, accompanied by the destruction of over 100 years of Communism and now Globalism.
Absolutely would the great Scottish patriots be horrified by the neutered population of today!
But keep in mind that a good number of Americans would prefer that nightmare to the Golden Age of President TRUMP!
That reminds me, there are a lot of people perturbed by what Hollywood is doing with a new Odyssey movie. Lots of young men in particular, are real history and historic battle buffs, and Hollywood certainly has a big budget for this one, but for some reason they are going with glaringly obvious flaws in the costumes.
Maybe the star wants to look more “cool”, who knows?
This is what’s become of a once-great industry. They care nothing at all for what their target audience thinks or wants.
President Trump spent his life, and made his fortune, in negotiation. He wrote several good textbooks on the subject – which I have in hardcover. They are well worth reading and re-reading, if you want to understand how this President “ticks.” He very plainly tells you.
And – he’s 100% correct. Our Founders knew that we could not be an independent nation, politically, if we were not also independent, industrially. They would have been stunned and dismayed at what we did to ourselves beginning in the 1970’s. (What were we thinking? Answer: we weren’t.) One of the very first pieces of legislation that President Washington signed was a tariff bill, designed to protect and promote American domestic industry, which was then essentially starting from scratch.
Why is your “only source of supply” half-a-planet away, instead of “just down the street?” How stupid is that?
“Why is your “only source of supply” half-a-planet away, instead of “just down the street?” How stupid is that?”
Amen! Big Pharma will be next.
I cannot wait for Big Pharma to be crushed and all medicines, medical supplies, and medical machinery to be made in the USA by Americans.
Charles Gasparino
@CGasparino
BREAKING: As I reported
@jpmorgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon came out w his annual shareholder letter this AM, and he did in fact address tariffs as I said he might. But the urgency wasn’t there. Reading it you would have no idea the markets are going through a massive upheaval. It shows, also as I reported, America’s CEO class, at least in public, is still too scared to take on Trump directly.
Cont…
Dan Ives is a big tech shill. Ignore. He always has the highest price targets on individual stocks. He is embarrassed that he got caught flat footed and wrong on his forecasts and is now covering is ass.
Which of the Big Bank outfits paid back their too big to fail bailouts from 2008 with interest??
AWESOME!
President Trump is playing to win, he must. He has his foot on the head of the snake, now he needs to crush it. He understands better than anyone that this is do or die. If he/we don’t succeed the glo-bull-ist will finish our destruction.
If President Trump wins, America wins, if he loses, we lose that simple.
Ultra-MAGA!
I’m proud of President Trump, too. Those of us who have followed the political movements of the US over the past 40-50 years are proud of this administration. Globalism is a scourge conceived to destroy the west altogether. I thank God from the bottom of my heart that somebody with real power and influence has stepped in to put a stop to it.
The big speakers defending the tariffs need to recite one fact:
In all of the data released so far, the Trump tariffs on a specific country are only one half of the tariffs and restraints that country imposes on our goods, or they are exactly even.
Critics have yet to explain why that is a bad thing and why the old system should continue.
I love how he addressed the Annemarie Horden question from Bloomberg. She was on the air today and tried to push the ‘Trump Put’ garbage.
Annemarie Horden (Bloomberg): Mr. President, is there a ‘Trump Put‘ though? Is there a mark, is there pain in the market in which you are unwilling to tolerate this idea of a ‘Trump Put’ at some point? Is there a threshold?”
PDJT: I think your question is so stupid. I don’t want anything to go down. But sometimes, you have to take medicine to fix something. And, we have such a horrible. We have been treated so badly by other countries. Because we had stupid leadership to allow this to happen, they took our business, they took our money, and they took our jobs. They moved it to Mexico, they moved it to Canada, they moved a lot of it to China. And it is not sustainable. We are not going to do it.
10% of the US population owns 90% of American-owned equites
40% of the US population own 10% of American-owned equites
50% of the US population own 0% of equities.
92–95% of the US population buys gas for their vehicles.
The majority of Americans check energy prices before they check Dow Jones prices.
@amuse
@amuse
TARIFFS: Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, made it clear that they are not pursuing retaliatory tariffs against the United States. Instead, Taiwan plans to boost imports of American goods and promote a new golden era of shared prosperity.
Hold!
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Trump…
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114296287858068040
As an America Thinker author pointed out, if tariffs are so bad, why do all these other countries use them?
About the anti America protests…
We know they’re not taxpayers…
No one can afford to be that stupid…
That level of stupidity must be paid for…
So,
Through my brilliant powers of simplistic deduction…
I’d bet that they’re paid agitators…
Paid by some NGO…
With taxpayer $$.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
President Trump and his amazing team is making the US great again and number one on the world stage. Other countries are paying attention. When this country leads, the world is a much better place.
First this idiot endorses Sissy G and now Sunuunu??? f u don
I pray that’s right but I am nervous, only because it just really hit me this weekend that the global elite and the Democrats in this country hate Trump so personally, so viscerally, so irrationally, that they really are Captain Ahab and he’s the whale. And they hate us about as much. So–Will big money /big banks/global titans the Fed completely destroy middle America just to keep him from having any claim on any kind of success or improvement of quality of life? I’m afraid they would. 😫
Fear not!
Their biggest concern after the end of the Trump Golden Age, which they will destroy or try to, is that
“We the People” will still be here. THAT worries ‘them’.
Not sure what The President’s plans are for his post Presidency, but WE will still be here.
Selective panic…
Today could be the third straight day where the S&P falls more than -4% . For all you history buffs, this only happened during the Great Depression.
Last week the DOW dropped to almost exactly where it was one year ago, but the Wall Street whores (the MSM) are screaming.
Wall Street Doesn’t Reflect the Real Economy
2 Apr 2025
https://prosperousamerica.org/wall-street-doesnt-reflect-the-real-economy/
March 25, 2025
Is the American Stock Market Overvalued?
This page reports on a daily updated valuation model of the US stock market. The model estimates the long-run equilibrium between market capitalization and cyclically adjusted corporate earnings.
https://www.estimite.com/post/is-the-us-stock-market-overvalued/
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The American stock market currently appears to be overvalued by 63%. In other words, it would take a 39% drop to bring the market back to its long-run equilibrium level. In comparison, at the peak of the Dot-com bubble, on March 24, 2000, the market was 89% overvalued. When the market bottomed out 2.5 years later, it had dropped 50.2% from its previous all-time high and was undervalued by 21%.
These estimates are based on a model inspired by Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio (CAPE). We find the CAPE measure preferable to the market cap-to-GNP ratio, as it accounts for long-term changes in the ratio of corporate profits to GNP. Our model estimates the long-run equilibrium between stock market capitalization and cyclically adjusted corporate earnings.
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“it would take a 39% drop to bring the market back to its long-run equilibrium level”
That would mean about an additional 12,000 point drop from where it has fallen to now.
SO, ignore the globalist screams…
As a smart investor, Mark, I am sure you recognized that the S&P was historically over valued and had doubled in the past 5 years at a rate of return in excess of 14% annually compared to over 100 years of 8% avg returns. As such, you rebalanced into bonds and are enjoying the huge rally there. Congratulations!
A tool…..just not a very sharp one.
People spreading such stories are trying to talk us into swallowing our own tongues. It is the *behavior* of the shareholders that causes such wild market fluctuations.
Stop acting like the sky is falling to break that self-perpetuating cycle. All doom and gloom.
Smart investors are in it for the long haul.
Nobody is trying to talk you to into anything. That ship has long sailed.
Telling people to “stop acting like the sky is falling” shows a serious lack of awareness, though, especially towards retirees who are dependent on their retirement savings.
Doom and gloom is appropriate right now. The President and his team are poking the wrong bear.
Stocks always fluctuate. They go up and then they come back down. They go down and then they come back up.
HOLD THE LINE means just that. You don’t sell in a downturn unless you want to lose money.
You BUY in a downturn if you want to make money.
The market is always there, going up and down. The question is where will YOU be?
If you tend to buy only when the market is high and SELL when the market is low then YOU have a problem understanding your investments: You are listening to people who urge us to sell low so that *they* can buy in.
Don’t take their bait.
Retirees who are too worried to wait for a market correction (big mistake) should already be invested in low growth products that provide a steady income, like bonds and treasury securities.
Stocks provide growth, not a steady income. If you can’t stomach the ride, at least wait for the next high before you move your money out of the market and into your happy, “steady” place.
Been retired eight years now, I aint worried.
We love you, Donald!!
😁
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Powell capitulation?
we will know later.
I posted this last night on the Peter Navarro thread, but thought it was worth reposting here. I thought Breitbart had a pretty good analysis of President Trump’s tariffs and Wall Street. Here’s the intro:
It’s hard to say what finally broke Wall Street’s will. Maybe it was the retaliatory 34 percent tariff from Beijing, or the sight of Jerome Powell brushing off the carnage like a man who’d just changed a flat tire. Maybe it was the unmistakable conviction in Donald Trump’s voice when he said, “China played it wrong. They panicked.”
Or maybe it was the simple realization—years in the making, but somehow still a surprise—that this president is not going to hand back the steering wheel to the Chamber of Commerce.
Whatever the trigger, Friday felt like capitulation. Not just a selloff or a rout—though it was certainly that, with the Nasdaq down nearly six percent, the Dow off more than 2,200 points, and the S&P 500 hemorrhaging value like a biotech firm with a bad FDA call. No, this was something more specific: a psychological surrender to the idea that tariffs are not merely a negotiating tactic or a transitory flourish. They are, for better or worse, policy. And not just policy, but a pillar of a new economic order in which global capital doesn’t get to write the rules.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/04/04/breitbart-business-digest-the-market-finally-realized-trump-meant-it/
All excellent posts. Let’s all keep Trump & his administration bathed with prayer. Dark forces are at work against him & the God fearing (loving) patriots of this great country.
Amen, Jimbo. The battle lines are becoming more and more pronounced, but God is faithful.
I posted this later on…
86,400 seconds in a day–I think my math is right–
…what are the statistical odds, that Mr. President moved his head at one important second?
86,399 other seconds available in a day, to perform that head tilt…and left him with only a superficial wound.
This was truly of Biblical Proportions.
Hold the line indeed! We’ll get through it. I trust POTUS.
Thanks to our ‘allies’ we’re pretty much down as a nation but thanks to President Trump and his team, we’ll get back up and beat the tail off those who tried/are trying to dismantle our great nation.
am having a memory of a photo meme of Xi holding a leash with Joe on the other end, down on one knee.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/07/us-news/bill-ackman-warns-trump-is-losing-business-leaders-confidence/
Somebody sent me that last night. She wanted to prove to me that it isn’t just Trump haters who are against this plan.
It seems that what has some otherwise supportive people concerned is the “asymmetric” part.
Sometimes it’s a painful process to get to a place of”better”, something has to be lost in order for the “better” to come. I’ve learned to see things this way over the last 15 years. Keep looking forward, keep moving forward. In the end God wins and God is GOOD!!