Trump says he doesn't want stocks to go down, 'but sometimes you have to take medicine'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNBC

Published Sun, Apr 6 20258:19 PM EDT


President Donald Trump said Sunday evening that he is not intentionally engineering the ongoing stock market sell-off, but said little to try and dissuade it. “I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One Sunday night when asked about the markets.

The comments came as U.S. stock futures dropped on Sunday evening, with Dow Jones Industrial average futures sliding 4.1%, accelerating losses that carried through from Thursday and Friday and indicating more selling is likely to hit Monday morning.

He cited the trade deficit with China as his rationale for pressing on with his tariffs plan despite the recent pain in the markets. “We have to solve our trade deficit with China,” he said. “We have a trillion-dollar trade deficit with China, hundreds of billions of dollars a year we lose with China. And unless we solve that problem, I’m not going to make a deal.”

“I’m willing to deal with China,” he added, “but they have to solve their surplus.” He added that he spoke with European and Asian leaders over the weekend on the tariffs rolled out by his administration, which are expected to take effect in the coming week.

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"Dealing with the trade surplus" with China is many years away thanks to past GOP policy of "outsourcing", "off-shoring", and "cheap labor", with little or no regulation.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Take the wrong medicine and it will kill you

Doesn't help that the doctor is a quack.

[yourout]

2. Someone needs to tell the idiot You don't put tariffs on countries. You put them on

Individual industries or products that need protecting.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Not only does tRump fail as an economist but he also fails as a general

If you are surrounded by countries, like say a bully is surrounded by antagonists, you, the bully would not want to attack a bunch of countries at one time because they can swarm you and subdue you. Smarter strategy would be to pick a country and win against them before taking on another country.

But tRump has taken on the whole world. So instead of a focused battle, tRump is fighting everybody all at the same time. The world can gang up on the bully and may be backed into a corner where they have to fight him together.

European Union even on its own is a bigger economy than USA.

[dweller]

3. Ya know, the he more I hear " Donald Trump Was the Dumbest Goddam Student I Ever Had."

the more it seems believable … thank you professor



✌🏻

[Dan]

4. Everyone is misunderstanding God-Figure Trump,

All he wants is everyone to worship him, praise him and bride him (mostly the bride, such a nice bride, with lots of zeros on the end).

[Escape]

5. They really need to quit...

...reporting what Trump says. It's inconsequential gibberish..

[sakabatou]

6. It ain't medicine, it's poison, you idiot!

[IronLionZion]

7. Yeah like bleach, HCQ, and Ivermectin

he should take his own medicines and STFU

[Strelnikov_]

8. From the guy who thought injecting bleach or ramming a UV light down your throat was good medicine

Idiocracy.

[Aussie105]

9. Fix something?

What needs fixing, and is the plan to fix it working yet?

Please reply quickly, Mr Trump, before the decline becomes a self-perpetuating monster that impoverishes the whole world.

Anyhow, this is all part of the behind the scenes Trump plan - to be the centre of attention, to be seen as bigly powerful, and to affect as many people as possible.
That the economy is sliding off a cliff is not all that relevant to Trump.

[Jacson6]

10. Sometimes you have to test a hand gun by putting a bullet in your temple.

Just sayin...

[BaronChocula]

12. Says the guy who

couldn't decide where he stood on vaccines during and after a pandemic.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4517350-trump-vaccine-rhetoric-public-health/

Throughout the campaign, Trump has performed a complicated tap dance regarding COVID vaccines. He simultaneously wants to take credit for their speedy development but has also criticized their use and knocked his now former rivals for being too pro-vaccine.

Fuckin idiot.

[Karasu]

16. Once his party decided to MAINSTREAM anti-vaxxers after 70 years of them rightfully being considered fringe loons, he

pivoted. Before that happened, though, he wanted to play the role of the heroic savior by taking credit for the vaccines.

Of course, no one of consequence ever called him out on this shit.

[HDCowboy]

13. Heck why dont he start slow with getting rid of the Indain call answering service centers that you cant even understand

Heck why don't he start slow with forcing business to get rid of the dang automated answering services that make you push 1 or 2 for thsi or that and then if you ever get to talk to a person it's somebody somewhere at some foreign answering service that speaks with such an accent you cant even understand them!! Bring back those jobs to America!! And those danged self checkouts at all these businesses really get on my nerves!! Get rid of that crap it will bring back a lot of jobs along with bag boys who take your groceries out for you and pick up grocery carts instead of forcing you to go put them in some out of the way carts here spot!! If he wants to make America great again that would be two great ways to start and would bring back tons of jobs!! But "oh no!" that would be "communism/socialism" to make to regulations that tell businesses how to do their jobs!! I could think of tons of others but i would only be wasting my time and building up my blood pressure!! Lol!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. tRump's happy. You have to take his medicine. . . . . nt

[Karasu]

15. Wait. Conservatives still believe in medicine? Really? How long until they mainstream not taking THAT anymore either?

Fucking contrarian conspiracy theorist dumbfucks.

Doesn't he have any Ivermectin to take or bleach to inject?

[delisen]

17. Trump needs t take his anti- psychotic med. nt

The paranoia of the belief that the whole world is ripping us off and only he can stop it is all too obvious.

[betsuni]

18. What happened to: We're angry, left behind, nobody listens to us, Democrats are mean and condescending

and ignore our economic anxiety angry angry angry?

But telling them to take their medicine is fine.

[Javaman]

19. more projecting. he's living out all of his revenge fantasies watching everything burn to the ground. nt