Trump tariffs live: FTSE plummets to one-year low minutes after opening amid global stock market chaos

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1. I’m going to be really fucking pissed if my company has to start making redundancies because of that orange cunt in the White House.

   I was fine with him shitting up America because I’m a firm believer of “you get what you wished for”, but when his fucking ridiculous actions spill over to the real world, we have a problem.

2. “Why do you care about the American election? It doesn’t effect you”

3. Terrible news for anyone looking to retire soon. I only had £3k in my S&S ISA and I’m down about £500 over the last month.

4. America doesn’t make anything. So tariffs are pointless to the regular folk outside of America. I can never remember seeing made in the USA ever. America has to pay more for the good stuff lol. Well done trump.

5. It’s scary the only good news is that he’s not serious about plunging us into a Great Depression and is using it as a way to enrich his mates in the short term or as a negotiation tool to bully his allies later.

   Still good news for Russia…another policy entirely designed to favour them!

6. I really hate how timid Starmer is being with the Trump tariffs mess. By not hitting back it’s just telling Trump we’re okay with the tariffs

7. All that fuss over unelected officials in the EU controlling our lives but then this twat in make up destroys our economy. Can we have a referendum on leaving trump?

8. I feel so disheartened that many leaders are having to give up and appease that cunt.

   I feel like we just lost a war.

9. Reddit: Eat the rich!

   Reddit when Trump makes the rich lose all their hoarded stock wealth money: no not like that!

10. To have one idiot disrupt the planet is one thing to have other idiots joining them. It’s just wrong. This guy needs to be taken down and out of power.

11. This is Trump’s Liz Truss moment, but instead of her being removed by parliament we will have to watch Republicans in the senate back up this lunacy and gaslight the world until global recession is upon us.

12. [Then Vs Now](https://streamable.com/3u6db2).

    How Republicans flip flopped on the stock market the moment it was bad for them.

    > “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

    ― George Orwell, 1984

13. Amazing that 1% of the population of Earth votes in an idiot who crashes the economies of the other 99%

14. I’m looking forward to the US markets open – all indications are they’re going to get hammered more than this.

    We have one advantage in this, and that’s the rest of the world isn’t doing this. 85% of the world economy (PPP terms – the measure that matters) is NOT engaging in a tariff war with each other.

    This means opportunity for other nations to prioritise trade agreements with each other. And there’s a lot of growth happening in that 85%.

    America has essentially locked itself out of the global economy just as those middle income economies are starting to transition to consumers. The rest of us, besides the short term pain, have opportunity here.

    As long as the US is losing more than the rest of the world, there’s hope that the republicans will be wiped out in the midterms. So with any luck, we have 20 months of this max.

    It’s going to suck, but I’m hopeful this might be the beginning of the end for the nationalist MAGA BS.

15. “Just turn off social media, USA elections won’t affect you”

16. The one time I want to see what my investment portfolio is, and my password no longer works. What does this tell me?

17. Will the UK still suck up to Agent Krasnov, rolling out the red carpet to a state visit all for a ‘trade deal’ that trump will break on a whim?

18. When our Prime Minister, in one single act of economic stupidity, tanked the UK stock market overnight, she was gone 50 days later.

    Trump has done this worldwide.

19. Seems like everyone’s buying as stocks are climbing

20. I could forgive America for electing Trump once—democracy is imperfect, and electorates make mistakes. But choosing him again, after living through his first presidency, is unforgivable. It reveals something deeply and fundamentally broken in the American political system: a willingness to harm both their own country and global allies, with no clear benefit in return.

21. I just in awe that this was predicted and that an old man with bad business practises and possible dementia was allowed to even run for presidency. Is this what the Americans call their constitution that everyone can be special and run despite it not being in the greater goods interest? 

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