Trump Shares Video Claiming He's Crashing Stock Market on Purpose

The video, which originally comes from TikTok user @wnnsa11, was posted to X on Thursday evening by pro-Trump account AmericanPapaBear, and claimed that Trump is playing a secret game which could make you rich.The video's voiceover says: So why is he doing this? To push cash into treasuries which forces the Fed to slash interest rates in May and those lower rates give the Fed the ability to refinance trillions of debt very inexpensively. It also weakens the dollar and drops mortgage rates. Now it's a wild chess move but it's working.The video continues: You're probably wondering what about his tariffs, well I'll tell you; it's a genius play. It actually forces companies to build here to dodge them, it also forces farmers to sell more of their products here in the U.S. to bring grocery prices way down. Now remember, 94 percent of all stocks are owned by only 8 percent of Americans, so Trump he's taking from the rich short term and handing it to the middle class through lower prices.Our obligation is to...make certain that a one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem, Powell said at a conference of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

What People Are Saying

When asked about the tumbling markets on Thursday, President Donald Trump told reporters: I think it's going very well. It was an operation. I like when a patient gets operated on and it's a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is. We have six or seven trillion dollars coming into our country and we've never seen anything like it.He added: The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country's going to boom. And the rest of the world wants to see, is there any way they can make a deal. They've taken advantage of us for many, many years. And many years we've been at the wrong side of the ball and I'll tell you what, I think it's going to be unbelievable.