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Towlie

(5,561 posts) Fri Oct 23, 2020, 02:15 PM Oct 2020

Trump said he "played it down" to not create a panic. I think he meant a stock market panic. [View all]

The Trump quote from Bob Woodward is “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because I don’t want to create a panic.” I wonder how many people read that to mean a panic among the general population, i.e. people fearing for their lives.

I don't think that's what Trump meant. I think he meant that he worried about the effect a truthful announcement about COVID-19 would have on the stock market. Does that sound plausible?

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Trump said he "played it down" to not create a panic. I think he meant a stock market panic. [View all] Towlie Oct 2020 OP

Of course that's what he meant nt intrepidity Oct 2020 #1

Yeah, that's been a common interpretation ever since he said it. TwilightZone Oct 2020 #2

Exactly Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2020 #6

There's No "Think" About It ProfessorGAC Oct 2020 #3

I said that since the Woodward tapes came out. Claustrum Oct 2020 #4

You are correct n/t Yonnie3 Oct 2020 #5

He's so stupid; that is exactly what he ended up with in March. It wiped out most gains from 3 years Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2020 #7

Well, he doesnt know anything about the stock market, at all. Eliot Rosewater Oct 2020 #8

yes, exACTLY. Grasswire2 Oct 2020 #9

What happened to the story where big donors got secret COVID briefing before mkt crash? Nt Fiendish Thingy Oct 2020 #10

Also a travel panic. Disaffected Oct 2020 #11

Yep. Very practically the first thing he did was to pump money into the markets soothsayer Oct 2020 #12