Trump Boldly Predicts His Stock Market-Crushing Tariffs Are ‘Gonna Be Legendary in a Positive Way!’

President Donald Trump confidently told a gathering of Republican lawmakers that his “tariff situation” — which has sparked a brutal stock market plunge — is “gonna be legendary” one day.

The stock market dropped after Trump announced his tariff program last week, and continued to sink when China announced reciprocal tariffs. At Friday’s closing bell, the Dow was down another 2,200 points. The carnage continued Monday, with a brief surge after false reports Trump might pause some of the tariffs.

After rallying Tuesday, futures plunged again overnight as China announced a new round of retaliatory tariffs.

But none of that has deterred Trump.

On Tuesday evening, Trump gave a speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) that clocked in at nearly two hours

Trump’s speech included many declarations pumping up his trade war and lashing out at the United States’ trading partners around the world, as well as a revisitation of such Trump speech staples as his ode to fictional cannibal psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter.

Trump also made the bold prediction that the “tariff situation” would lead to a “thundering landslide” in the midterms:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But we’re going to win the midterm elections, and we’re gonna have a tremendous, thundering landslide! I really believe that.

And it’s so important that we pass the big, beautiful bill, because that’s gonna be… And I really think…

And I think we’re helped a lot by the tariff situation that’s going on, which is a good situation, not a bad. It’s great. It’s gonna legendary! You watch!

Legendary in a positive way, I have to say. It’s going to be legendary!

But I really think it actually puts pressure on those few Republicans that just can’t get there. You know what the alternative is? A Democrat bill or a chapter for the country.

Watch above via Pool.