Trumpwatch 2.0

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MarketWatch:
Small-cap stock futures slide after Trumps sweeping tariffs stoke growth fears.

Investors brace as Trump tariffs amount to ‘worse than worst-case scenario’.

[Turkeytop]

So, the guy whos's been dreaming of getting his first ever, brand new car, can put that dream away for another day.

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KGO San Francisco:
South Bay citizenship ceremonies moved to parking lot after feds cut contract with historic theater.

[zzand]

The U.S. is increasing its military presence in the Middle East as a war of words between Iran and President Donald Trump over Iran's nuclear ambitions sent tensions spiraling in recent days.

The Pentagon extended the deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier strike group and ordered a second flotilla to the Middle East, Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed Tuesday. It also sent additional warplanes to the region, including F-35 fighters and B-2 stealth bombers, according to a U.S. official.

The posture shift came as Trump threatened to bomb Iran if the country does not strike a deal over its nuclear weapons capabilities.

[zzand]

Just had a news story on the air, my anchor had a hard time not laughing, our stable genius president imposed tariffs on two islands where the only residents are penguins. I guess they will pay them with fish.

[Matt]

Stop me if you've heard this before, but Trump is a piece of shit: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/02/stu ... eness.html

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MarketWatch:
U.S. Trade gap narrowed in February as tariff-racing import surge eased.

AP:
Justice Department decided in final weeks of Biden term not to charge Texas AG Ken Paxton in corruption probe AP sources say.

[Honeyman]

These will likely be relevant today.

[MWmetalhead]

I hate Trump's fucking guts.

[Chrocket87]

These will likely be relevant today.

There are no such thing as guardrails in Trump’s America. Get rid of those breakers! Let’s see how low we can go!
#mAgA

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Let’s throw this in…

MarketWatch:
Number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits now highest since 2021.

Down 1600 at 11am. He and his enablers are the most inept bunch of morons I have ever seen.

[zzand]

His press secretary was asked at the briefing yesterday if they are wrong about the tariffs will they reverse them. Her response was we are not wrong. So far so bad on that one. Maybe it will turn around but I think as countries announce their responses it will get worse.

[Matt]

NYT

President Trump fired at least three senior National Security Council officials after an extraordinary meeting in the Oval Office with the far-right activist Laura Loomer, who laid out a list of people she believed were disloyal to the president, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the matter.

The three officials were among those vilified by Ms. Loomer during a meeting at the White House on Wednesday, the official said. Other members of the N.S.C. are expected to be fired as part of the purge, the official added. Some of those officials had been detailed to the council and were sent back to their home agencies over the weekend, even before the meeting.

Ms. Loomer has been part of a group effort by Trump allies to disparage members of the president’s White House staff. The campaign has included online attacks about the staff members’ families, past employment and aspects of their backgrounds, including their professional associations, that have been used to claim that they were either disloyal to Mr. Trump or ideologically unfit to serve in his administration.

Anyone think Spokeshole, daddy-issues Leavitt is jealous of Laura Loomer?

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NYT

President Trump fired at least three senior National Security Council officials after an extraordinary meeting in the Oval Office with the far-right activist Laura Loomer, who laid out a list of people she believed were disloyal to the president, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the matter.

The three officials were among those vilified by Ms. Loomer during a meeting at the White House on Wednesday, the official said. Other members of the N.S.C. are expected to be fired as part of the purge, the official added. Some of those officials had been detailed to the council and were sent back to their home agencies over the weekend, even before the meeting.

Ms. Loomer has been part of a group effort by Trump allies to disparage members of the president’s White House staff. The campaign has included online attacks about the staff members’ families, past employment and aspects of their backgrounds, including their professional associations, that have been used to claim that they were either disloyal to Mr. Trump or ideologically unfit to serve in his administration.

Anyone think Spokeshole, daddy-issues Leavitt is jealous of Laura Loomer?

She is someone incapable of holding an actual job. Functionally handicapped. In the end this whole fiasco will be a footnote like Millard Fillmore or something. Their entire movement will collapse sooner or later.

Meanwhile:
The economy was slowing and prices rising even before Trump tariff rollout: ISM Index (Institute for Supply Management).

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Is it the President's job to prop up the staock market? The capitalists who bankrolled his election campaign deserve everything they get.