BREAKING: Trump to hold another press conference to calm the markets...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[LisaM]

1. Darn, not the Onion.

I wish there was an emoji for TRAINWRECK.

[hlthe2b]

35. My thoughts exactly... Damn. Like he's sealing our fate.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Of all the many things Trump sucks at,

calming the markets is toward the top of the list. People freak out just listening to him because he's so fucking daft and stupid.

[msongs]

3. pence and trump should volunteer to get the virus to calm the population nt

[brewens]

4. "Never sit around discussing things rationally when the situation calls for panic"-George

Steinbrenner

[cbdo2007]

5. He knows the market is the key to his reelection strategy.

[MFGsunny]

33. Probably tin foil, but I've also honestly wondered whether MF45 ....

.... is in panic mode about HIS OWN losses and of those who are laundering other people's $$$$$ or rubles.

He was making waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many "announcements" and telling "scoops" that on the outside seemed to have some resonance with subsequent stock market outcomes, even if short term.

But then again, MF45's whole disturbing life has been/is nothing more than being a day-trader, and a dang lousy one at that.

/

[The Genealogist]

38. That's really what this whole response is about

There's an impending public health crisis that has to be dealt with effectively. Naturally, shit for brains doesn't give hoot about public health, or people really in general, just making sure he can get reelected based on a strong stock market. Yet his Kool-Aid drinking cult of deplorables will just keep eating it up like manna from heaven.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. I am going with he attacks the press and demands they tell the markets that he is blameless

and it is the media's fault he might not get re-elected if lots of people get sick.

[enough]

7. He can't help it, can't shit up. It seems he actually believes in his own superpowers. NT

[Wounded Bear]

41. Well, I can't shit up, either...

Actually, I don't remember ever trying TBH.

[Initech]

8. ALL IS WELL!!!!!!!

[mcar]

48. Perfect!

[MontanaMama]

9. What could go wrong?

[lunatica]

42. Here's another one to illustrate your point.

[Miguelito Loveless]

10. That'll be good for another 1000 point loss

[Submariner]

11. Can we sneak in Rosie O'Donnell disguised as a reporter

stroke maybe....no

[Roland99]

12. $20 he jawbones the Fed for a quick drop of rates

[captain queeg]

13. Not again. The dumbass will make it worse again.

I think it’s hilarious he thinks him inept babbling will calm the markets.

[Cartoonist]

14. Only he can cure this virus.

I kinda doubt he'll make that claim. He will definitely find someone else to blame.

[Mme. Defarge]

15. Fabulous!

Keep those cards 'n letters comin’!

[VMA131Marine]

16. Oh, the humanity ...

[irisblue]

17. Is there a time yet?

[world wide wally]

18. He will assure is that the finest financial minds in the country are working on the Caronavirus

[leftyladyfrommo]

21. That sounds right.

[Maeve]

19. Wasn't today BAD ENOUGH????? sheesh....

[gratuitous]

20. Did Sanders win Nevada AGAIN?

Remember how that was Needy Amin's excuse earlier this week?

[empedocles]

68. Did BS win Iowa AGAIN, or LOSE it again?

[lunasun]

70. No trump blamed him after Nevada

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921951/-Trump-repeats-Fox-claim-that-falling-markets-are-Bernie-Sanders-fault-not-pandemic-fears

Then he blamed the democratic debate this week
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/26/trump-melts-down-and-blames-the-democratic-debate-for-stock-market-plummet.html

[Liberal In Texas]

22. He actually thinks just by lording himself around markets will surge.

Mini-Mussolini is just going to stand there and blame the press and the Dems and maybe hold up a 2016 electoral map or change a Dow chart with a Sharpie.

I'm sure this is going to really help.

[Sneederbunk]

23. Nothing says calming like Trump jibberish.

[unitedwethrive]

24. I knew it...time to put Jared in charge!

His press conference yesterday sure calmed things, makes total sense that he wants to do it again.

[malaise]

25. He clearly hasn't seen my commandment

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213022469

[mainstreetonce]

26. He could calm the country with two words

I resig

[exboyfil]

52. A little more than that

I have Pence's resignation, and I am now resigning as well.

[SWBTATTReg]

27. When will he not learn? His words and his lying are doing him in. No one is listening to him.

[applegrove]

28. I'm sure it is to announce federal funding for the coronavirus

vaccines when it becomes available, not to blame Bernie for the stock markets.

[Lindsay]

29. Because yesterday's press conference

worked so well.

[procon]

30. After three years of nonstop lying, trump has zero credibility.

He thinks he can schmooze investors and quell their anxieties by blowing smoke up their asses and bragging about how has the situation under control... No worries Bro!

Trump is increasingly irrelevant and the investors are all on to him now, everyone knows he's lying and they are not buying his BS this time. They know Trump is their useful idiot, an ignoramus who doesn't understand the problems at hand, let alone have any ability to find solutions. The big investors are looking for facts and they need to know the truth so they're 1 listening to the 1scientists and medical experts, and looking the reported stats coming out of states like NY and California

[tblue37]

31. When he says anything the stock market drops. nt

[Brother Buzz]

32. LOL, thank our lucky stars the market it presently closed

But then again, he spoke yesterday after the market closed, and it dropped another 400 points overnight in Pre-Market Trading thingy.

What does ETTD mean again?

[stillcool]

34. I predict he will howl about..

the media, the Democrats....and probably science.

[Kingofalldems]

36. And he'll blame 'Nasty Nancy' and the 'Democrat party'.

[malaise]

43. You nailed it

She called him out today

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213024197

NANCY PELOSI: The president said something so strange that you really have to wonder. He said the reason the market dropped is because of the debate the other night. Well, the market had dropped 1,800 points before the debate the other night. The market dropped while he was speaking yesterday at his press conference. So let's not be silly about what that is.

..We don't like seeing the market drop, that's for sure. We hope this will have a turnaround, but it cannot affect how we address the issue. Our issue is public health. Our issue is prevention. And we would hope that that would not lower the market, but raise the market, because we want to show that decisions have been made to put this in good hands now.

[Kingofalldems]

44. She owns him.

[Vinca]

37. I thought this was probably a Borowitz Report piece.

Poor Don - he doesn't know when to STFU.

[irisblue]

40. Here.

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
Trump is here with many guests including Candace Owens and Diamond and Silk. https://t.co/JmLv10tP7b

Link to tweet

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
The White House says Trump will discuss his "success in empowering members of the African-American community" in a meeting shortly in the West Wing. (There's a reception later tonight.)

Trump often turns these kinds of things into impromptu press conferences. So, we'll see.

Link to tweet

[irisblue]

45. And more tripe

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
There is now, suffice it to say, ample discussion among attendees about their frustration about when Trump is called a racist; the attendees do not believe that is accurate.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[onethatcares]

47. now he's talkin'

just what the world wants to hear at this point.

Is the "Blacks for Trump" guy going to give a speech or will it be all Kanye West?

On my dumpbingo card I have "highest it's ever been" three times in three rows. I got a winning feeling about this.

[irisblue]

54. More tripe

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
Trump is now speaking.

He's talking about HBCUs and also how he first encountered Diamond and Silk.

(No questions from press so far.)

Link to tweet

?s=20

[onethatcares]

55. No shit,

made up radio talk show people weren't considered actual representatives of the press.

If they weren't kissing his ass they wouldn't be there no either.

Buck him and them.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

51. I can't imagine how any self-respecting African American

could possibly be in the same room with Donald Trump.

[mcar]

46. Is he trying to destroy the economy?

"I, alone, can fix it."

[sarisataka]

49. So tomorrow's drop will only be

About 1500?

[Jirel]

50. So, Dow -2,000 points tomorrow?

The idiot is going to tank the economy.

[C_U_L8R]

53. Blaming Mike 'Booger' Pence already?

Or just a desperate mulligan.

[irisblue]

56. More tripe #2

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
Trump notes he's going to South Carolina tomorrow.

"Some people say I'm trolling the Democrats, and maybe I am," he says.

Link to tweet

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
Trump is now touting his response on the Coronavirus, namely restricting flights from China four weeks ago.

"We have done an incredible job, because we closed early," Trump says.

Link to tweet

[Johonny]

57. too late to short?

[irisblue]

58. More trip #3. 😳😳😳😳😳

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
"I gave a press conference yesterday that really was a very good press conference," Trump says.

He says it was a "calming" press conference.

(He hasn't yet directly addressed the markets today.)

Link to tweet

[irisblue]

59. Tripe#4- media bashing has started

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
Trump is blaming the media now for, in his view, overstating the risk of the Coronavirus.

Link to tweet

[irisblue]

62. More tripe#5.

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
Trump repeatedly is coming back to saying that, were it not for him, Coronavirus would be worse in the U.S.

"15 people is almost, I would say, a miracle," he says. (There are 15 cases.)

Link to tweet

?s=20

[irisblue]

63. More tripe#6

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
Trump says the Coronavirus could get worse before it gets better, or that it could just go away. Nobody knows, Trump says.

Link to tweet

And the trolls and Russian boots have shown up to the Twitter thread

[irisblue]

67. More tripe#6 @and wrap up

Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Tweeted:
We're wrapping up. Jack Brewer, one of the guests, just said to Trump: "I gotta say this because it's black history month: man, you the first black president."

The guests then prayed for Trump.

Link to tweet

Looks like it's over.

[Mike 03]

61. My god, so yesterday's presser was a "perfect" press conference.

He's lost to reality.

[underpants]

60. I sure Jared can fix this too

[Turbineguy]

64. Darn

I was hoping the decline would moderate soon.

[Flaleftist]

65. lol

[Hassler]

66. WTF? Apparently Chump doesn't know that the more he

"reassures" the more scared people get and the more the DOW will fall.

[Backseat Driver]

69. He just wants to show off his new eyeshadow hue and matching tie

Today its probably a royal shade of purple