'Jaw-dropping conflict of interest': Trump accused of new scheme to benefit from trade war (1 Viewer)

[ColdHardTruth]

'Jaw-dropping conflict of interest': Trump accused of new scheme to benefit from trade war​

President Donald Trump's social media company is marketing "America First" accounts that would allow him to personally benefit from the tariffs that have been roiling the stock market and lopping value off the dollar.

This was his goal all along. All he wants is money.

Trump is a thief and a liar.

You did this MAGA people.

MSN

 

[KingLeo]

Are we surprised at all that the lifelong scammer, con artist, and grifter Trump is involved in yet another scam and con game?
No, we are not.

 

[phoenix2020]

This is a logical next step. He controls trade policy, he controls investment accounts, and the SEC has now been gutted, so there's nothing to stop him from promoting his own investment services that have lone insight into and awareness of his trade decisions. How can Raymond James or JP Morgan Chase possibly compete with a Trump Media that gets advance notice of Trump tariff and other decisions that nobody else will receive?

Obviously, all of our local MAGA will be fine with this. Few even have investment accounts so it won't bother them anyway.

 

[Phys251]

Meanwhile, the Dow is down nearly 900 points right now. Get ready for tRump to short the market again.

 

[MamboDervish]

Trump doesn't drag his fat ass out of bed in the morning without the prospect of personal enrichment at the expense of others. As an emotionally developmentally disabled child, Trump's favorite Disney cartoon character was the humorless Scrooge McDuck.

 

[The AntiDonald]

Are we surprised at all that the lifelong scammer, con artist, and grifter Trump is involved in yet another scam and con game?
No, we are not.

I'll say this. For a country that has an immigrant emergency, an economic emergency, Trump sure manages to find time for all his new money scams and still plays golf. When will he solve these declared emergencies?

 

[Jezcoe]

It’s actually quite refreshing that he isn’t even pretending to care about not abusing his power anymore.

 

[aociswundumho]

I wonder, will Trump make the political left see the sheer idiocy of allowing politicians to control the economy?

Nope.

 

[MamboDervish]

I'll say this. For a country that has an immigrant emergency, an economic emergency, Trump sure manages to find time for all his new money scams and still plays golf. When will he solve these declared emergencies?

As soon as he finishes giving us all "the much better, much cheaper" healthcare system, replacing Obama Care with Trump Careless, and right after day one, when he ends the conflict in Gaza, and stops Putin's war against Ukraine "with a phone call".

 

[markdc]

I wonder, will Trump make the political left see the sheer idiocy of allowing politicians to control the economy?

Nope.

Nah. Trump will simply reinforce the political Left’s already-entrenched view that it’s sheer idiocy to allow RIGHTWING politicians to control the economy and sheer brilliance to allow THEMSELVES to control the economy—no matter how disastrous the results.

Mark

 

[Jezcoe]

Nah. Trump will simply reinforce the political Left’s already-entrenched view that it’s sheer idiocy to allow RIGHTWING politicians to control the economy and sheer brilliance to allow THEMSELVES to control the economy—no matter how disastrous the results.

Mark

Seeing as how right wing control has erased Trillions of wealth in the past month.....

 

[MamboDervish]

Nah. Trump will simply reinforce the political Left’s already-entrenched view that it’s sheer idiocy to allow RIGHTWING politicians to control the economy and sheer brilliance to allow THEMSELVES to control the economy—no matter how disastrous the results.

Mark

That's a very funny thing to say, considering how skewed the economic disasters are toward the RW, at least over the last 40 years. At this point, the political RW seems to own economic disaster. And with the RW Senate's most recent projections adding $7 TRILLION DOLLAR$ to the debt over the next 10 years, there's no fear of that trend changing anytime soon.