As global markets fell once again and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped precipitously, President Donald Trump decided he’d take to Twitter and vent his rage, aiming his frustration at everyone and everything other than himself and his administration’s halfhearted response to the coronavirus pandemic.
CNN reports that bad economic news can be found wherever you look, with the most dramatic reversals being seen in Europe and Asia:
“Investors are waking up ‘shell shocked,’ wrote Stephen Innes, chief market strategist at AxiCorp, in a Monday research note. He described the panic as ‘complete pandemonium.’
“The one-two punch of Saudi Arabia’s oil price war and the deepening coronavirus fears in Europe added ‘another level of unwanted panic to a market already thick with fear,’ Innes said, noting that investors have begun piling into safe haven assets. The Japanese yen surged against the US dollar to its strongest level in more than three years, while gold briefly traded above $1,700 per ounce and hit its highest levels since 2012.”
But rather than try to calm economic fears and reassure the public, Trump decided to lash out on social media, starting his tirade by blaming the media for his administration’s inadequate response to coronoavirus:
The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, “The risk is low to the average American.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
Trump then moved on to the Democratic presidential race, suggesting that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and other Democrats are trying to steal the nomination from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT):
Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren singlehandedly destroyed the Bernie Sanders campaign by stripping voters away from his count on Super T. He lost states that he easily would have won if she had dropped out 3 days earlier. The DNC is doing it to Bernie again! Will he ever get angry?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
Now the Democrats are trying to smear Bernie with Russia, Russia, Russia. They are driving him Crazy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
As if that wasn’t more than enough for one morning, Trump ended with this:
The Obama/Biden Administration is the most corrupt Administration in the history of our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
Responses to Trump’s Twitter meltdown were immediate:
You are not well.
— Kathy Radigan (@KathyRadigan) March 9, 2020
He’s completely lost it. At exactly the time we need a leader.
— TavernWench ? (@TavernWench) March 9, 2020
Seriously, the Dow is set to open down 1200, the Coronavirus has doubled in count even with your weak and stingy testing criteria. Oil is falling based on a price war started by Putin to destabilize the US Shale Oul Producers. And you’ve been on a twitter rampage to distract?
— Donalds Daddy (@DonaldsDaddy45) March 9, 2020
Seriously, the Dow is set to open down 1200, the Coronavirus has doubled in count even with your weak and stingy testing criteria. Oil is falling based on a price war started by Putin to destabilize the US Shale Oul Producers. And you’ve been on a twitter rampage to distract?
— Donalds Daddy (@DonaldsDaddy45) March 9, 2020
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