Even Fox News admits: Trump ‘capitulated’

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  2. He had to, the tariffs were becoming a noose around his neck. That said, trust has been broken and nations aren’t going to feel safe with us. The markets will be drifting back down as the damage he has put in place will ensure things won’t be easy going forward.

  3. Ah…. the “art of the deal”… must be way above my head as to me he looks like a loser.

  4. But he was getting all these calls from world leaders, he could sense the tears in their eyes.

  5. John Kennedy was on TV early this morning boasting that trump had “won”, somehow, with his tariffs, so now was a good time to negotiate zero-tariffs with everyone. He had to announce a win for trump as a face-saving announcement because there was no other way for trump to stop being an idiot. He had to have someone other than himself claim that he won something, somehow.

  6. It must be so exhausting keeping track of how to stroke his balls.

  7. Cause he’s a losing whinnying bitch. And don’t worry, only some of the tariffs were paused, food prices could still go up

  9. While everyone is laughing at Trump’s see-sawing on tariffs, the White House has now established its ability to scoop Americans off the street without due process and move them to a foreign prison where they will be out of reach of US courts.

  10. when even fox news is going against trump you know he screwed up hard

  11. Only ~45 more months before Trump’s great American Civics lessons are completed.

    What will be learned? Probably nothing.

  13. The damage is done. This is your exit liquidity folks.

  14. I mean, it’s hard to pretend you didn’t when you go from saying you won’t budge to doing a full 180 the next day

  15. As soon as someone tells him what “capitulated” means, he’s gonna put 500% tariffs on everything.

  16. Who gives a crap about these bullcrap headlines anymore? Fox is a propaganda wing of the reactionary movement and they will not go against Trump. If the intent is to show Fox is now standing against Trump, that will never happen!

  19. MAGA claiming victory today after the most blatant pump and dump in history. As if the US markets didn’t seem rigged enough, this will most assuredly have foreign investors pull out. There is no faith, exit stage left. Going to be quite the show in the upcoming week(s).

  21. Capitulated into discovering his insider trading superpower

  22. Trump was weak and simply no match for some penguins.

  23. The man has the decision-making skills of a house cat. And I seem to think that’s a bit of an insult to the cats.

  24. I think this has been the ultimate aim of Trump and his cronies — to maximize the grift for their own self-benefit. He doesn’t care an iota about the issues that rile up his base. He wants to make money, and what better way to do that than with the threat of tariffs moving the entire market at his whim.

    Plus, he cleaned out the SEC, CFTC, FINRA, FCA, and every other financial regulator that could’ve had a chance of standing in the way of this, or at least detecting it after the fact — and filled them with his allies who are probably getting in on the grift.

    We’re not talking about them all making a sure-bet 9% on the rise in the market today after the announcement. With creative investing instruments, one could make not only a multiple of that gain, but *many times* their original investment. There are people in the Trump orbit who today turned millions into tens, or even hundreds, on millions.

    It’s actually pretty smart if you don’t have a moral compass and seek the maximum financial advantage, consequences on everyone else be damned.

    What else really besides tariffs allows the president to move markets — both upward and down — at his will, without instituting any permanent policy? Just on his word, they’ve discovered now that they can basically send the *entire* market up or down about 10%. With insider information ahead of time, one could make almost unlimited proceeds betting before the rise or dip.

    Using margin leverage and derivatives, they bet on outlier moves in the market, which normally would be very rare, but here they know they’re almost certain to happen with such world-shaking announcements.

    This, for them, is like walking up to the roulette wheel 98% certain which number it will hit. And like anyone would, they bet accordingly — and most of them have a lot to start with.

  25. Such a losing, loser faced loser. The bigliest loser who ever lost.

  26. Capitulated is a safe word on Fox as most viewers will assume it means something strong, powerful and perfect.

  27. Capitulated = Surrender if any Trump supporters are reading this

  28. He did not capitulate. He blamed the “queasy” and “yippie” public. This is avoidance of personal accountability; shifting the blame.

  29. Capitulation is more palatable than market manipulation.

  30. I see the mods are in a “deleting” mood tonight for speaking facts. Assholes.

  32. The problem is that his base doesn’t know what ‘capitulated’ means

  33. Who cares about that part… he just manipulated the markets and robbed millions of Americans so he could make billions off of them. He is a thief and a traitor and we have to do something to stop this now.

  35. The biggest concern is in two months, when the orange man is playing golf and starts missing attention — then he’ll think back to last week and try the same thing again.

    Narcissists always crave more and more attention; it’s in their nature

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