📉 Trump ignites ‘insider trading’ accusations after global tariffs U-turn /// The Guardian

When asked by US reporters on Wednesday evening when exactly he arrived at his decision to pause the tariffs on most countries for 90 days, Trump said: “For a period of a time. I would say this morning. Over the last few days, I’ve been thinking about it.”

I don’t know how this could be considered anything but market manipulation, which is not a presidential action. You cannot tell people to buy stocks and then take an action that makes those stocks go up immediately after. We saw him saying this would be good for certain people in the past and that’s exactly what happened.