‘THE OPERATION IS OVER!’ Trump Touts Successful Tariff Launch Minutes Before Markets Open — Amid Fears of a Nightmare on Wall Street
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Just minutes before markets open, amid fears of a massive sell-off, President Donald Trump took to social media to tout the success of his controversial tariff policy, which he formally announced on Wednesday.
Not since George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” debacle has a sitting president more aggressively touted preemptive success than this example.
Trump insisted that “THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING,” in his signature ALL CAPS style in Thursday morning Truth Social post. He quickly pivoted to a preemptive victory lap amid a raft of critical coverage from even traditionally pro-Trump media outlets, writing, “THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
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Trump posted this message less than 30 minutes before stock markets were set to open.
Since Trump announced massive tariffs with a curious reciprocal formula at its root, futures have been down over 1,000 points, in advance of what some expect to be an enormous sell-off among serious fears of a tariff-based recession.
