Summary

As Trump’s erratic tariff policy rattles global markets, investors and financial analysts are questioning his mental fitness.

Tom Lee of FSInsights said macro fund managers fear the White House is “not acting rationally, but rather on ideology,” with some even wondering if “the President might be insane.”

Lee placed full blame on Trump, saying his decisions lead to a “binary outcome,” though they often lack logic.

Market volatility surged after Trump raised tariffs on China to 125% before having to abruptly pause most tariffs.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    176·
    4 days ago

    I am genuinely fucking baffled at how many people INSIST on treating orangeboi as a rational actor.

    He’s not. He never was. He wasn’t the first time around, either - it’s just that there were enough non-insane people around to stop him from doing what he’s doing now. And he’s doing it now because he got rid of all the non-insane people.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      41·
      4 days ago

      Yeah, I figured most of these people knew what they were doing when they supported Trump, but somehow after a decade of his bullshit (and really, all the decades before that too), they’re still surprised he’s a fraud?

      Or are they just angry that they weren’t in the pump and dump group chat that Trump is obviously running?

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        4 days ago

        You don’t have to be smart when you’re born with a silver spoon like most of these fucks are.

        Notice that the actual first generation wealthy aren’t the vocally supportive ones. It’s the generationally wealthy, the ones that didn’t actually make the break into wealth, the ones lucky enough to be born into it.

        There’s a few exceptions, but they’re the ones advocating most vocally for the heinous shit, not just the money making shit.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          4 days ago

          thiel is , and craven is more like mcconnel, behind the scences evil.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      Everyone with half a brain knows he’s dumber than rocks, they put him there to be the puppet-king who lifts restrictions and rules so business can literally rape us all to death. That goal is not going as smoothly as they imagined so now they’re pointing out the lack of clothes on the emperor.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Exactly.

      He’s not insane until rich dude’s yacht money and 401ks start tanking.

      Before that diagnosable criteria, he doesn’t meet the DSM V threshold for magalomanical genocidal fascist.

      ‘Results inconclusive’

      EDIT ‘magalomaniacal’ was a typo, but it fits, so it stays. Hopefully it’ll be in thr DSM 6.