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“I guess they say it was the biggest day in financial history,” President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday afternoon. Later, in an apparent hot-mic moment, he told a fawning senator that the market was up almost seven percentage points. “Nobody’s ever heard of it. It’s gonna be a record.”
I think he prefers to take the wings off of flies, as he did when he was a child (allegedly, by me, just now).
Plus, this gives him the chance to tell his cronies when to buy and sell and become billionaires.
“many products that the U.S. imports are predominantly from China,” including 73 percent of smartphones, 78 percent of laptops, 87 percent of video game consoles and 77 percent of toys. “Resourcing from other countries will take time and result in much higher costs,” Mr. Zhang said in an interview on Wednesday.
Only when TikTok content creators go shopping for phones next.
I spent a chunk of today working from the waiting room of Subaru dealership’s service department. The sales folk at that dealership are very unhappy campers. Thrice I had to do my spiel of "We didn’t budget for a new car this year, but I wish we had. I thought next year’s bonus was going to go to a new car, but now… "
At least I got this major service done before tariffs really hit the cost of parts.
“Trump went on to suggest Zelensky did when asked about his offer to purchase more patriot missile systems.
“Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know that you can win the war, right? You don’t start a war with someone who’s 20 times your size and then hope people give you some missiles,” Trump said.”
Fox News prefers to interview Trump about his “clueless” predecessor in the White House rather than ask Trump about his own policies.
“They [the Biden administration] had a lot of bad people. They had a lot of radical left lunatics in there, and I think he was perfect. He was perfect for them because he didn’t have a clue,” Trump said on Fox Noticias.