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GreatGazoo

(4,755 posts)
6. Let me try this a different way
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 10:36 AM
15 hrs ago

Yes. Trump is trying to manipulate oil prices and profit from front running some of his tweets and lies.
But no one can "order markets to drop prices" and the Exxon guys are trying to push prices back up so Trump can't even tell them what to do.

Oil is a super complex market that has to factor in grades, transportation costs, refinement costs, sanctions, wars, abductions of Maduros, drone attacks, pipelines and supply curves. Most likely oil is dropping because flow is proving to be less interrupted than was believed or expected and Iran is now shipping oil to China via rail.

The way that Trump, his children and his circle profit is by front running. Whenever any of them know what Trump is about to tweet they place trades that leverage that info. That is easy. Basically "insider trading".

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