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As markets melt down, Trump touts $5m gold card for wealthy immigrants (featuring his face)
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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First of all, why would he be the first buyer of an express residency card when he’s already a citizen? Fucking moron.
Second, “it’s happening in two weeks” is Trumpspeak for “it’s literally never going to happen.”
Yep, this is a distraction from the stock market melt down.
As is his proclamation that April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and then goes on to ONLY talk about trans kids.
Wonder how the big players in the troubled teen industry donated. I’m sure RFK Jr’s department will be quick to investigate and regulate teen torture facilities.
Don't give him so much credit. Everything he does is credited as an intentional distraction from whatever it is that he just did.
Yeah, it's pretty tiresome. "This is a distraction!!!!" No, literally everything he does is a horrible mess and he just keeps doing more.
That would also mean that he had planned everything in detail to fit together. That's beyond his capacities. The recession was obviously unplanned; he's already struggling to keep the whole thing under control. The complexity of human society is overwhelming him.
Which market meltdown?
?
Yep. There's this strategy called "pump and dump." It's often used by the wealthy to inflate stock prices before cratering them to buy at discount.
Idiots like you see line go up for a while, and think:
Instead of noticing the "pump" part of the scheme, also visible in your image.
Unless you want to point to some economic windfall happening between 2022 and 24 that explains all that growth, it is very likely from downsizing, buybacks, and off market darkpool price manipulation. (Which now happens regularly these days with every blue chip stock around 5pm).
Historically, Tariffs lead to a recession in 1830 (15% Tariffs), a Depression in 1930 (20% Tariffs), and now with a 40% plus Tariffs on basically everything, we are likely to see the complete disembowlment of the US Dollar and all the market dominance we built with it.
You better get your completely misplaced premature celebration out now, because you are going to be eating crow the rest of this year, and far into the future. There's no amount of bullshit Trump spin that will bring our markets back. We are unquestionably fucked.
I will gladly check back here in 8 months to provide an updated chart, seeing as you will certainly be too embarrassed to do so.
Here I am posting a joke, and you gotta be an ass and not even understand what I posted. We’re literally saying the same thing.
That certainly wasn't clear.
Maybe not. But it’s a literal picture of the stock market melting down.
Either way, if it’s not clear, maybe people should err on the side of not being a dick to a stranger on the internet.
...from a time frame of 2021 and on.
Which implies the growth from that time until now is somewhat meaningful in comparison to the dip that specific time frame does its best to minimize.
Which to me, seems intentional. Kinda like you're being a dick. Which is why I responded like one in turn.
If that was all an accident:
Then apologies for calling you an idiot and listing in detail all the ways I agree with you about the market melting.
I accept your apology. I honesty just wanted to keep all the growth from Biden. But I circled the meltdown.
Also true
Residual salesman brain.
Trump: I am awesome, I bought this thing, it is awesome, you will be awesome if you buy it too.
It bears no relationship to ... making any kind of sense, because it is literally a hustle, a psychological manipulation tactic.
He is just saying salesman words, meant to encourage buy in.
Has no relation to reality, the truth, making sense, etc.
... But, it works on rubes, dullard marks, cult members, weak willed / low self esteem people with decent reliability.
These are just more Trump University or Trump Steaks to him.
Demented incompetent salesman brain, or what's left of it.
When you're a Russian asset, you sometimes forget to fake being a citizen.
He's not faking being a citizen. He's faking being self-aware. He barely has a clue wtf he's talking about at any given time. That's all.
So law and order is just bullshit now right? You buy a gold fucking stupid ass card with dear leader’s picture on it and you get to skip the line? Where is that money going by the way, to Trump or a public fund?
It'd be a helluva thing if some dumbasses were to actually buy these things, then have it rendered null and void if the adults get back in charge...and are not given a refund.
There have been similar (non-literal) golden visas offered all over the world, mainly by poorer EU countries or the various third-tier states that make most of their foreign exchange through money-laundering.
Why would the president of the United States even need to or care about buying his own residency card?
In case he accidentally revokes it, because he’s a senile fucking moron.
To sell it later because he thinks it'll be a collector's item. His only thoughts are ever about making money.
He could wake up tomorrow in a Venezuelan prison form 'accidently' being deported, since he made it so that's a thing now
Has anyone seen his birth certificate‽
"24h" was equivalent to "maybe during this term", so 2 weeks could mean within the next 2 decades
Like infrastructure week!
Well, my first thought was that he did it to cover Melania 😂