Twitter Freaks Out Over MASSIVE Dow Plunge: ‘It’s The Trump Dump!!!’

Joe DePaoloFeb 5th, 2018, 3:26 pm

The stock market is in an absolute freefall, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 1,500 points at one point on Monday afternoon — with nearly an hour still left in the trading day. This comes on the heels of a 666 point drop on Friday.

Twitter is completely freaking out about the plunge. Here’s a sampling of the reaction:

he's giving same stupid tax cut speech while Dow drops [holy shit] 900 pts!!

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 5, 2018

The Dow has crossed 25,000. Trump!Trump!Trump! Oh, wait — in the wrong direction?

Actually, this is starting to look fairly serious.

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) February 5, 2018

TRUMP LOSES BENEFIT OF THE DOW

— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) February 5, 2018

The DOW dropped 800 points to 1,500 points within the amount of time it took me to walk from one side of the Capitol to the other, according to my emails…

— Ashley Killough (@KilloughCNN) February 5, 2018

AAAAHHH!!! Down 1500 points! It's the "Trump Dump"!!! pic.twitter.com/aQN6RMc9eO

— Joshua Green (JoshuaGreen.bsky.social on 🟦) (@JoshuaGreen) February 5, 2018

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/960608129405906944

Good time to recall that in the previous administration, we NEVER boasted about the stock market — even though the Dow more than doubled on Obama's watch — because we knew two things: 1) the stock market is not the economy; and 2) if you claim the rise, you own the fall.

— Jay Carney (@JayCarney) February 5, 2018

Watching the stock market… pic.twitter.com/33kGUryuVk

— Lisa Tozzi (@lisatozzi) February 5, 2018

Insert twitter bitcoin joke [here].

— Shawna Thomas (@Shawna) February 5, 2018

Feel the thrill of the stock market! pic.twitter.com/tPndVDVlkw

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 5, 2018

https://twitter.com/BrettLoGiurato/status/960606713064972290

inject this tweet straight into my heart https://t.co/zIPPAoRXeO

— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) February 5, 2018

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