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MayReasonRule

(3,111 posts)
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 10:12 AM Apr 10

"He made 2.5 billion today and he made $900 million. That's not bad."


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Publicly bragging about blatant market manipulation and pointing our who profited the most.

Got it.

See where this takes us...


I misunderstood what he said initially... I thought he said 2.5 million...

HE SAID 2.5 BILLION!

If anyone's seen the movie "The Aristocrats"...
These are the folks they're referencing...

For those that are out of that loop... No worries... it's not a compliment!
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"He made 2.5 billion today and he made $900 million. That's not bad." (Original Post) MayReasonRule Apr 10 OP
I wonder who the two were that make all that $$ that Trump is point to. Anyone know. Just curious riversedge Apr 10 #1
Me, too! I'm curious! wordstroken Apr 10 #14
Here: sop Friday #26
Roll tumbrels. FalloutShelter Apr 10 #2
torches & pitchforks... alterfurz Apr 10 #3
Severance Package... littlemissmartypants Apr 10 #4
Does anyone know liberalgunwilltravel Apr 10 #5
Looks Real To Me... MayReasonRule Apr 10 #21
I hate that sociopathic choie Apr 10 #6
To put it mildly. Codifer Apr 10 #11
Yes, to put it very mildly. choie Friday #24
No one made anything unless they sold their stocks yesterday since the Dow is dropping Ray Bruns Apr 10 #7
True...DOW down 2,100 right now. It's called REALITY............ Bengus81 Apr 10 #13
If they bought just before the announcement the tariffs were put on hold, haele Apr 10 #19
Time Will Tell... I Suspect They Dumped On It's Way Down... MayReasonRule Apr 10 #22
Why does he seem sharp and lucid BigmanPigman Apr 10 #8
Make Aristocracy Guillotined Again IronLionZion Apr 10 #9
Is he pointing at DeWine?b Hope22 Apr 10 #10
Could it be Bessent? LudwigPastorius Apr 10 #18
Turns outs it was Schwab and Penske... Hope22 Apr 10 #23
Are we ready yet? angrychair Apr 10 #12
Eat the Rich... multigraincracker Apr 10 #15
Happy turd reminds me of his perfect phone call to GA SecState Raffensperger... Kid Berwyn Apr 10 #16
Nowhere. This will take us nowhere. rhiannon55 Apr 10 #17
not funny... markie Apr 10 #20
Damn Skippy! MayReasonRule Friday #28
In Order To Assign These Outcomes To Any Action By Him... ProfessorGAC Friday #25
"No worries... it's not a compliment!" Prairie Gates Friday #27

riversedge

(75,054 posts)
1. I wonder who the two were that make all that $$ that Trump is point to. Anyone know. Just curious
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 10:13 AM
Apr 10

sop

(13,727 posts)
26. Here:
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 05:36 PM
Friday

“'He made $2.5 million, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad!' Trump said, pointing to financial investor Charles Schwab and then NASCAR team owner Roger Penske. The men were part of a visiting guest contingent of mostly racing notables...Schwab is estimated to be worth $12.9 billion and Penske $5.6 billion."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-billionaire-profits-dropped-tariffs-b2731386.html

The quote states "million," but that could be a transcription mistake. $2.5 million doesn't seem enough for Trump to brag about.

alterfurz

(2,600 posts)
3. torches & pitchforks...
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 10:50 AM
Apr 10

--> tar & feathers-->tumbrels & The French CEO Severance Package:

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. -- George Bernard Shaw

Ray Bruns

(5,141 posts)
7. No one made anything unless they sold their stocks yesterday since the Dow is dropping
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 11:20 AM
Apr 10

like a rock again today.

Bengus81

(8,689 posts)
13. True...DOW down 2,100 right now. It's called REALITY............
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 12:23 PM
Apr 10

The Trump Pump is over,now all you have is losers and suckers if they held the shares.

haele

(14,124 posts)
19. If they bought just before the announcement the tariffs were put on hold,
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 01:00 PM
Apr 10

Then sold in the last minutes just before the bell, they made a hell of a lot of money.
They would have to have to have known about the announcement first...

BigmanPigman

(52,857 posts)
8. Why does he seem sharp and lucid
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 11:29 AM
Apr 10

in this group meeting compared to his incoherent ramblings at larger gatherings when the press is there?

He surely can recite those financial facts when he wants to. Is this part of his dementia?

Hope22

(3,902 posts)
23. Turns outs it was Schwab and Penske...
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 04:04 PM
Apr 10

“He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to financial investor Charles Schwab and Roger Penske, a NASCAR team owner, respectively.”

Someone needs to go to jail.

Kid Berwyn

(19,970 posts)
16. Happy turd reminds me of his perfect phone call to GA SecState Raffensperger...
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 12:34 PM
Apr 10
"All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have," Trump was recorded saying. "There's nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you've recalculated."

...in that he has yet to be held to account for sundry treasons, abuses of office, or any federal lawbreaking that I have found.


rhiannon55

(2,734 posts)
17. Nowhere. This will take us nowhere.
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 12:50 PM
Apr 10

Like every other fuckin' crime this fucker has committed. I've stopped expecting anything to stop him. The only thing that will stop him is the one thing that stops everyone eventually.

ProfessorGAC

(72,297 posts)
25. In Order To Assign These Outcomes To Any Action By Him...
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 05:32 PM
Friday

...don't we have to assume he's telling the truth & the numbers are accurate?
Neither of those should be automatic assumptions.

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