Month: March 2025

Trump Devastation Continues in America

March 23, 2025

Well, I’m done talking about the stock markets until April 2nd. I think everyone gets the drift. Donald Trump is destroying America. Let’s talk about him!

Trump is a FRAUD.

Trump is a CON-ARTIST.

Trump is a SEXUAL-PREDATURE.

Trump is a HORRIBLE PERSON who is an IDIOT.

Trump is a COVICTED FELON who is the President of the United States.

I cannot and will not ever support such a sick individual.

TRUMP’S PLAN IS NOT WORKING !

Canada has his number. Mexico has his number. Europe has his number.  The Federal judges have his number. Even the Supreme Court has his number. Yet, he’s such an IDIOT that on April 2nd, he plans to go through with his tariff plan that will be sent to countries around the world. He will continue to be sued, and eventually SCOTUS will put Trump and Elon Musk in their place !   IT’s COMING !

April 2nd will become the NEXT big news around the world, as stocks will again crash, so hard they may even close the markets early on April 2nd. Everyone knows that Canada plans to reciprocate every added tariff that Trump puts on Canada, so it’s about to get much worse for the American consumer. Trump claims that the United States does not need Canada. But we actually do. If the markets collapse on April 2nd, watch Trump cave in and remove the tariffs he just put in effect just 24 hours earlier. He’s testing the patience of the world now, and the world will not take his bull sitting still. They will ALL fire back!

Can the economy ever recover? Trump already caused people to loose at least $5 Trillion dollars who support the stock markets. And 401K Accounts and pensions are getting raped. Medicade in on the chopping block and the future of Medicare is uncertain. There is no end in sight, except an oncoming recession, followed by a depression if the markets can’t settle down. It is inevitable.  We cannot stay on this path. So many jobs have been lost.

Trump signed an executive order to get rid of birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship was explicitly added to the Constitution in 1868 when the 14th Amendment was adopted following the Civil War.  His action is TOTALLY ILLEGAL. But he doesn’t care because he believes his newfound executive powers of presidential immunity given by SCOTUS oversees any action that he makes as president, so he believes he now has the right, regardless of what the U.S. Constitution says. 

USAID is Gone!

Several FBI Agents are gone! Probationary Employees are Gone!

According to government data maintained by OPM, 220,000 Federal employees had less than a year on the job as of March 2024. They are gone!

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs lost 1000 temporary employees. They are gone!

The civilian workforce is heading to a 5 to 8 percent decline. GDP is no longer growing.

There has been $900 million dollars in cuts in the departments of Education services. Just gone!.

About 350 Federal Employees that maintain and guard our nuclear weapons are now gone!

The Center of Disease Control and Prevention has lost about 1300 probationary employees which is 1/10th of the agency’s workforce.

Probationary employees were also fired at public health agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but HHS has not released a final number.

From the Department of Homeland Security, 405 people lost their jobs, why, because they were probationary.  They are gone!.

The Internal Revenue Service will lay off thousands in the middle of tax season. They will be gone, just when you need them during tax season.

The National Parks service has laid off about 1000 people.

The Consumer Protection Financial Bureau has been shut down. Completely gone!

The Agriculture Department has been hit. There were at least 2000 Non-Fire Fighting Employees terminated.

Trump put a 90-day hold on most foreign assistance right after he was elected. All Federal Grants and Loans have been frozen as of last month.

Trump has fired 17 Inspectors General.

The Department of Justice fired at least a dozen attorneys that served in politically appointed positions that pursued prosecutions of Trump before he was president. He fired them because they tried to prosecute him!

Trump just signed an executive order to close down the Department of Education, which he has no authority to do. The U.S. Congress voted and approved the formation of the Department of Education, and he cannot get rid of it with a stroke of a pen. It can only be elimitated by 2/3 of a vote in both the U.S. House and Senate. Lawsuits are now pending. 

Now that he’s destroyed so many people’s lives, but now it’s back to tariffs. Another option can be that Donald Trump will again CHICKEN OUT and not put out more tariffs to countries around the world on April 2nd.

As an ignorant idiot and con-artist that he is, I think that even Trump will see the catastrophic damage he is causing to America, or is he just not smart enough to realize how this country is bleeding Democracy thanks to his policies and the permanent damage he is causing to people’s lives?

Canadians are told by their Prime-Minister not to visit the United States this year, and to make other vacation plans. Canadians are no longer flying the American flag next to the Canadian flag. Rather than accept higher tariffs on imports, Canada is refusing to receive the goods. They have taken American imported liquor off of their shelves. Trump is causing long-term damage to our closest friend and neighbor – Canada.

This is nothing less than a trade war that is back-firing on Donald Trump. He is becoming to be known as “The Art of the No-Deal”.

American prices are about to skyrocket. Food, fuel, merchandise from retail stores, restaurants, car dealerships, computers and utilities are now going up. The egg prices he vowed to go down are now going up. Fuel has jumped 50 cents per gallon in the last 30 days.

So this is the guy that’s going to fix the economy. In what way? I’m still trying to figure out why people thought it was broke, and now they our economy to a fraudster that has gone bankrupt many times. So many people voted for this fool.

Trump’s meme coin has absolutely crashed in the market, going from about $45.00 a share to now only $11.65 as of this post. The stock has lost billions of dollars.

He has destroyed peoples savings, the very people that have supported him to become president.

Trump was right. He said there will be “pain” before things get better. Well, the pain has arrived, and his hard supporters are also really feeling it now.

What about his media company called ‘TruthSocial’? He claims that’s his voice is the real voice of America, as he continues his con-artist skills to get people to sign up and donate money to him. He claims that he has never let people down. Really, Mr. Trump?

The stock price for Trump Media, known on the NASDAQ Market as ‘Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT) down down 40.48% in value to date in 2025, now setting at $20.25 per share, down $13.77 per share.

This is devastating news if you invest in Trump Truth Social. So in his mind, he’s not letting people down. But in his supporters minds now that have been directly affected by the markets, they are now looking at Trump in a different light.

Unfortunately, people who support Trump are realizing the hard way that Trump is not a good leader in America. Actually he belongs in prison. You cannot trust such a con-artist and convicted felon that he is. It is unimaginable to me on how SICK this specimen of a human being is. All of the billionaires are going down the dark road now, loosing money along with his followers.

Elon Musk’s company, Tesla, stock shares are now down at least 50% worldwide. The prices of the Tesla has gone up 100% in Canada. The sales of Tesla in China are just about extinct. China has their own electric vehicle made by a company called ‘BYD’ that is so much cheaper in China, that there is no competition. Exports of BYD vehicles from China to other countries is picking up big time. Even import fees to these other countries from China still make their vehicle more popular than the Tesla. These Chinese vehicles use a Blade Technology, and the Chinese have figured a way to charge their electric car in just about 5 minutes of time and there are literally millions of charging stations across the country that can handle the charging requirements of the Chinese car.

The world is about to leave America behind, Thanks to Donald J. Trump! And Americans will continue to feel the ‘pain’ long after Trump is finally gone.

Canada Openly Distancing Themselves from the United States

March 21, 2025

To understand how Donald Trump’s policy regarding Canada has ultimately torn the two countries apart, Charlie Angus of Canada has announced a travel advisory warning against U.S. travel due to increased detentions and deportations of Canadians in the United States. Without a doubt, the U.S. – Canadian relations are on decline and in full display for the world to see. Canadian airlines is now canceling flights to the U.S. and there has been a significant drop in Canadian tourists in the United States.

Obviously, thanks to Donald Trump, the political landscape in Canada is shifting, with the Conservative Party’s support for Trump backfiring, leading to a rise in support for the Liberal Party and Prime Minister Mark Carney. So now realizing that supporting Trump is suddenly not popular amongst the Canadians, Pierre Poilievre, a leader in the Conservative Party in Canada is now distancing himself from Trump and his controversial statements, including his support for privatizing healthcare.

Canada is now in the midst of what is called Snap Elections to be held in April, and because of Donald Trump, the Liberal party in Canada is now pretty popular with the electorate.

Immediately below, is a speech given to Canadians by Charlie Angus who is not a leader, but a worker, but is swaying Canadians to to stay away from the United States…

“Over the last 3 months, our nation has faced an unprecedented threat from our nearest neighbor, a threat to our borders, threat to our sovereignty, a threat to our very right to exist a an independent, democratic nation.

DONALD TRUMP thought we were going to be an easy mark that would be a pushover. Oh how wrong he was, and now Canada, standing up to him has made Canada the front line in the defense against the MAGA ideology. So no wonder Donald Trump and MAGA are feeling pretty angry at Canada.

What concerns me is the targeting of Canadian citizens who are crossing the border to work or to visit. We have seen too many stories of citizens being pulled out of airport lines and being fingerprinted and deported as though they were criminals, citizens being kidnapped through the legal detention by ICE. And it’s not just Canadians. We see the attack on backpackers, students, doctors, professors.

I am here today to say to Canadians to avoid travel to the United States, if at all possible.

And to call our government to stand up for our Canadian citizens who are being denied their rights by arbitrary detention in the United States today. Canada must stand up for our citizens and for the rule of law, because of what we’re seeing, with the U.S. harassing Canadians, is not the actions of a democratic nation.

People whose phones are being seized and searched for any kind of incriminating evidence that they’re somehow progressive or woke. That’s not the actions of a democratic nation.

That is the creep of totalitarianism, that is the creep of fascism. And we need to call that out.”

What Trump has done to the United States is horrible. It’s sad as an American to see what the Trump regime has done to this country. It’s humiliating. Thanks to Trump, the U.S. stand in the world is as low as it’s ever been. There are reports that European military powers are currently planning and working on a five to ten year plan to replace the United States in NATO. The U.S. is presently just one out of 32 NATO countries. Canada has joined NATO in 1949 when it was formed, along with the United States. Many countries like Canada are boycotting the United States as well.

The Canadian people are taking Charlie Angus’s advice. Flights from Canada to the United States have DROPPED by 85%. This is definitely going to affect the United States, the GDP and the tourism industry, and the beneficiary is going to be places like the Caribbean and other places where Canadians are going to go. They are going to spend their hard earned money at places that actually respect them. It’s really unfortunate that we’re seeing such horrific behavior.

Regarding Canadian politics, the thought of DONALD TRUMP has become a curse, and anyone supporting Donald Trump like the Conservative Party in Canada has, needs to know by now that their success in the upcoming elections is now extremely negative to their chances of election. Donald Trump did this and the Republican Party in Canada has Donald Trump to blame. U.S. tourism will crash this summer.

Wall Street hanging by a Thread

March 17, 2025

It wasn’t the greatest day on Wall Street today, as the DOW kept some modest gains throughout the day and ended in the positive.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with a positive gain of 353 points, up .85% ending at 41,841.63. But the markets were jittery to say the least, as it was up at one point by 483 points, but in the last minutes of the open market, the DOW dropped.

The one basic reason why it did go into the tank today is because Donald Trump kept his mouth shut and didn’t proclaim more tariffs. But with that said, he promised he was going to make a statement to institute reciprical tariffs on any country that is imposing tariffs on the United States. In an attempt to destablize the markets, Trump will definitely achieve his goal ob April 2nd the date he picked to make the announcment.

Without a doubt, with just a few weeks to go, I can absolutely tell you that the markets will crash on that day.

Recently, Trump has received some very strong pushback fron Canada. The Canadians are not taking Trump’s threats lightly. They have been hurt, insulted, and not respected as a soverign nation by Trump. He claims that Canada does not have anything that we need and that everything that we import from Canada, we can get at home.

How sick is this guy? Does he not realize that Canada delivers at 97% of all oil exports directly to the United States? Doesn’t he realize that presently Canada is supplying electricity to 3 border U.S. states? Doesn’t he realize that Canada provides the necessary minerals that are needed in production of automobiles and computers and most electronics that the U.S. manufactures at home?

Trump has an end goal in mind. At the top of his list are his rich buddies that he wants to give a tax break to. He believes all the cuts he is making in government will pay for the tax breaks for the rich.

He’s gutting many government agencies in an attempt to crash the market so that prices will have to go down. His self induced resession will turn into a Trump depression.

Already, mortgage prices are down by at least 1% across the board, but that is actually a bad sign that Trump is succeeding in his goal to gut America.

Meanwhile, his popularity has hit rock bottom amongst Democrats, and the Republicans, many who have voted for him in the election are not far behind. Many recognize that they made a bad choice. The man that they trusted to FIX the economy is now gutting it.

Many laid off workers and closed businesses within the Federal government are now a reality, and Trump , along with his buddy Musk are not done yet.

Luckily, the courts are stepping in, while Trump has been defying court orders regarding deportations and the Judges involved are reversing Trumps orders to deport people and to close businesses. Trump has presidential immunity, and he’s exercising it, thinking that no judge can touch him as long as he wants to disobey judges orders when he performs illegal actions while under the cloak of the presidency.

As usual, I go off in a tangent sometimes when there is so much news about Trump these days that I can’t stay on topic.

Getting back to the markets, let’s see what another day gives us with tomorrows trading. At the moment, the DOW futures also known as the E-Mini Dow Continuouse Contract is down by 25 points setting at 42,200. Futures begain at 42,225. I will watch it throughout the night and report again in the morning.

 

The DOW Rebounds – A Great way to End the Week

March 14, 2025

Again, what happened today was totally predictable. Donald Trump did not issue any new tariffs and the markets rebounded and in big fashion.

When Trump keeps his mouth shut, the country benefits. That does not mean that the markets are out of the woods yet, even though all three major markets, the DOW, S&P500 and tech heavy NasDAQ have all rebounded. At a final minute tally, the Dow finished the day up by 1.65% for the day closing at 41,488.19. What a sharp difference from yesterday’s trading as it ended yesterday at 40,813.57.

So yes, the market rebounded at least for one day, while adding 674.62 points. It saved the week from total annialation. For what’s been happening lately, that’s quite impressive. The usual winners were NVIDIA Corp and American Express stocks. These are known as staple stocks, in which other major companies try to rally with and emulate their businesses and practices around these companies that always seem to be on top.

What does NVIDIA offer to the markets that’s so appealing?

One product would be the implementation of AI. This form of technology that seems to take over the mindset of intellectual thinking adds computer logic to the human formula to come up with a product that is far superior than if the result was created by just the human mind.

NVidia has been into the computer scene for quite a while now and they seem to have all the answers to keep things rolling smoothly and going in a positive direction. When you check the markets recently, Donald Trump’s political maneuvering continued to shake global markets and rattle US consumers. But even during Trump’s tariff statements that seem to crash the markets each day, NVidia seems to alway be able to pull through, or at least I should say that they pull through more times than they fail too.  Every company has their bad days, but if I had money to wager on a stock just a few months ago, I would have put my bet with NVidia. Today, their performance was stellar, as shares are jumping, now up 3.5% as they are building servers with AI capability.

American Express has been one of the companies that are always on top and always a good bet to perform well in the markets.

Since I mention Donald Trump quite a bit in this website, I wanted to say something that is happening that is POSITIVE and most likely BECAUSE of Donald Trump.

Graph showing 30-year and 15-year mortgage rates going down from Jan 5 to March 2 2025.

 

Investors are exhausted after recent financial market chaos, but there’s one perk for weary homebuyers and that is lower mortgage rates. The 30- and 15-year mortgage rates have both steadily dipped for six weeks straight alongside bond yields. Actually that is teriffic news. Way to go Donald… But I would suffice to say he does not even realize that he actually is the reason for something good that’s happening. I think even ‘The Donald’ would be suprised.

DOW FUTURES – MARCH 14, 2025

As of this writing at 12:46 CDT here at the moment, the Dow futures look POSITIVE. It shows now being up by 208 points, which is .5% of the total holdings of the stock.

Unless something really happens on a positive note during trading when the markets open, the DOW will drop again by another 500-700 points.

In order to stop this, something really good has to happen that would really make news. But the facts are that the only thing we are talking about here most of the time recently is TRUMP TARIFFS. That talk will not help the stock markets but that’s pretty much all that’s making Trump news at the moment.

We benifit from a global trade market, and Donald Trump doesn’t want to trade in a reasonable fashion globally. He would rather make all of his competitors throughout the world move their businesses to America, and then as he says, there would be no tariffs for whoever moves here.

He’s also mentioned the fact that Canada should be our 51st state, and that they wouldn’t have to pay any tariffs if they were annexed to the United States. The same with Greenland. Trump wants to take over Greenland, which will never happen, in order to excavate the minerals he has lost because his poor tarrifs to Canada and now the lack of cooperation between the two countries. If he truly was their friend, he would be able to obtain the minerals he would like to have without Canada being annexed to the United States. Again, it’s another imposiblity, and another pipe-dream of Donald Trump.

In short, when Trump mentions tariffs, the market tanks. When he keeps his mouth shut for at least 24 hours without any threats, the markets will rise. Let’s see where it goes today.

Donald Trump 2024 Campaign Tax Plan

March 14, 2025

Actually, Donald Trump has a 2024 Campaign Tax plan, but the benefits from it along with the fallout does not make any sense. He floated around several tax policy ideas, but he wanted to extend the expiring 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) changes. The tax cuts he gave the rich in 2017 ballooned the Federal Deficit by billions. Now he wants to do it again. But how he plans to do it will be nearly impossible and to say he will balance the budget in his second term, he surely must have another plan to accomplish his goals. At least I hope so, because he’s not going to get anywhere on this in short order and especially not with just tariffs and his campaign tax plan.

But the impact of his proposals will be very different if implemented, depending on which policies he puts forward and how he structures them.

I believe that some of his proposals are designed in a way that would promote long-run economic growth. But what is it going to be for Americans in the short term. PURE HELL! There is no other way to say it. People have to survive the short term in order to benefit from future economic growth. By then, we will all be living under a bridge somewhere.

He’s mentioned there should be permanent expensing for equipment, machinery and research and development (R&D). That’s reasonable, but does he have the smarts to get that done in his second term? I can’t see him accomplishing anything that would help the middle class.

Case in point, some of his tax proposals would worsen the structure of the tax code and are poorly designed. They wouldn’t contribute as much to long-run economic growth.

Unfortunately, I’m talking about Social Security income and ‘no tax on tips’. For me, it would be wonderful not to have to pay income tax on my social security, just because my wife’s income combined with my social security is above $32,000. I pay approximately $3,500 a year in taxes on my social security. So I have to save at least 10% of my social security check to pay taxes on that money that I already earned while working and paying taxes on the money I took home. In the past, I didn’t pull money out of my monthly social security check, but now I am doing just that. I filed ‘A Voluntary Withholding Request’  tax form, known as FORM W-4V. Saving that money each year to make sure I pay enough taxes by the end of the year is a good thing, but that’s money that I could have deposited in a savings account with interest,  But then what about exemptions for tips? Sure, that would make restaurant servers happy to be able to keep all their hard earned time money, but presently since it is income that they make while working for the company that employs them, they must pay taxes. Even if they didn’t have to pay a tax on their hard earned tips, there would be very little or no long-run economic growth. That’s kind of right to say that the employee getting the tips wouldn’t even get them if the employer didn’t hire them. So maybe the employer should get part of the tip.

Worse than any of this just mentioned, Trump’s reliance on import tariffs to offset the cost of tax cuts for the rich is a particularly distortive way to raise revenue, especially when all this seems to do is raise the ire of the tariffed countries he is attacking. Does Trump tell the American people that he’s putting us through hell with his tariffs to help his rich friends get another tax cut? Of course not!

But let’s get to the nuts and bolts of the issue here. I believe that his tariffs and his retaliation from his trading partners would totally null the long-run economic benefit that he’s proposed in his tax cuts. All for what? All for the ‘PAIN’ that people have to bear because Trump wants to play God-Almighty with the world. He wants all countries to bow to him, and he’s finding out in a short period of time that they will not bow to him and have other means to trade with partners that can be fair and not charge retaliatory tariffs just because they think they are being over-taxed. When it comes to trade between countries, keeping business private and discuss trading issues between specific countries is done best by the countries in a personal setting, not open for the whole world to see. If Trump is ignorant enough to embarrass a country in front of the world regard trade practices and institutes tariffs to solve the problem, the country being attacked has that same right. Countries like Canada, Mexico and China are not afraid of Trump and they can cause Trump just as much pain if not more that Trump can. Unfortunately, we are going to have to feel that pain. Trump claims that will be for a short period of time. I believe that it will be long term.

What he is actually doing or is trying to do with his tariffs is to offset the economic benefits of the policy changes he’s pushing forward to begin with, and his tax policies will not move in a positive direction for pro-growth, and fiscally responsible tax reform.

Again, Trump has a campaign tax plan, but never fully thought out what results he could actually gain from going forward with such a tax plan.

So in the following outline is the modeling for proposed major provisions by Donald Trump.

  • Making the individual TCJA expirations permanent except for the cap on SALT (effective January 1, 2026)
    • Rates and brackets
    • Standard deduction
    • Personal exemption
    • Child tax credit
       and other dependent tax credit
    • Limitations on itemized deductions (excluding SALT) and elimination of Pease limitation
    • AMT changes
    • Section 199A pass-through deduction and noncorporate loss limitation
  • Making the TCJA estate tax
     changes permanent (effective January 1, 2026)
  • Restoring the TCJA business tax provisions (effective January 1, 2026)
  • Reinstituting the domestic production activities deduction (DPAD) at 28.5 percent to lower the effective corporate tax rate for domestic production to 15 percent
  • Exempting tips from income taxes
  • Exempting Social Security benefits from income taxes
  • Exempting overtime pay from income taxes
  • Creating an itemized deduction
     for auto loan interest
  • Eliminating the green energy subsidies in the Inflation
     Reduction Act (IRA)
  • Raising current Section 301 tariffs on China to 60 percent
  • Imposing a universal tariff on all US imports of 20 percent
  • Foreign retaliation of 10 percent on all US exports plus additional in-kind tariffs on US exports to China

So what can be the economic effects of Trump’s Tax proposals?

First and foremost it has been determined that the proposals would increase the 10-year budget deficit by some $3 trillion in a conventional manner, and $2.5 trillion dynamically. The debt to GDP radio would increase by some 20 percent to 223% conventionally and 217% dynamically. There would have to be higher interest payment on the debt that would reduce American incomes by at least .8% and on the long run of -0.1%. This would negatively attack our economy.

Trump proposes to eliminate the green energy tax credits put in place by the IRA. Since they are temporary expansions there should be no long-run economic impact from eliminating them. But anything with the words ‘green energy’ in it is just dynomite for Trump. He’s going to try and get rid of it, regardless if it helps the American people or not.

Now after all this explanation of what could have been, will it ever become policy? I highly doubt it, because Trump is so hell bent with tariffs right at the moment, he has already spend almost half of his first 100 days with no real accomplishment benefiting the American people. I can’t wait to count the lies that will leak from his 100 day accomplishment speech we will have to bear witness to. Now that will be very painful.

Trump Threats Continue to TANK MARKETS

March 13, 2025

So what did Donald Trump’s threats cause today. Focusing on the markets, it was 100% predictable. The DOW ended the day down by 537 points, or 1.3%. The S&P 500 fell 1.39% and the Nasdaq Composite went down by 1.3%.

But Trump says that it doesn’t phase him. He indicated today that he is not going to bend on the 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, vowing that any resulting economic disruption “won’t be very long.” His Treasury Secretary claims that Trump’s tariffs will bring back the economy. How, by some miracle?

The bottom line evident to everyone is that if Donald Trump does not start caring about the markets and peoples life savings, then the markets will continue to decline and the people will have very lasting pain. Trump says he doesn’t watch the markets, but of course that’s just another lie. In a very short period time, the markets have dropped over 4,000 points from their record highs. There are already talks about a recession. If we hit that point, not much can stop us to head towards a depression.

To me what is uncomprehensible is the fact that this country is declining from being on-top of the world economically to one of the least admired countries in the world. Many of our allies across the globe looked at America as the ‘beacon of light’ for democracy and freedom prior to Donald Trump, but now they are distancing themselves from America and the traitorous policies of Trump. Countries like Canada and Mexico feel betrayed and feel hurt.

I will concede that the Canadians and Mexicans haven’t been totally honest and reasonable regarding their taxes on products that Americans buy, but at least there was some kind of order in the past between the United States and our neighboring countries to keep the idea of free trade more than just a thought. The world seemed normal and people were accepting the world as status quo.

With Trump’s tariffs and the reciprocal tariffs, free trade is now about something that’s happened in the past. Yet, Donald Trump is trying to force the rest of the world to accept his trade practices, or else there will be a penalty to pay in the form of a tariff, when ultimately the American people will have to pay. Trump is realizing that the world doesn’t have to listen to him and they are not. Instead, they are picking other partners to trade with, leaving Trump and his America behind. Canada is now trading with the European Union, China and Japan, and for the most part is not charging a tariff on anything because these countries are not tariffing them. But Canada is now tariffing America, all because of Donald Trump.

The biggest trade problem in the world can be said in two words…

DONALD TRUMP

Economic Uncertainty Surrounding Trumps Actions with Tariffs

March 13, 2025

It’s mid-day, and the DOW Jones Industrial Average is sinking as was expected. Compounding the normal profits and losses throughout the day, Donald Trump has been the catalyist that has been swinging the markets in their downword tumble since his election. The DOW is down by some 530 points at this writing or 1.3% for the day, so far. It’s been as low as 40,661.77 and a high of 41,360.12. It opened at 41,280.05. Stocks specifically hit were shares of Salesforce and Home Depot.

Those numbers are drastic, but Trump has been compounding the matter with his tariffs. Last night, the aluminum and steel tariffs went in effect on all imports worldwide.

Market volitility has been rampent throughout the last couple of weeks. There is no sign that things will get better, as the DOW heads for the worst week since March, while the S&P500 and Nasdaq are on track for the worst since September.

It’s all about numbers when it comes to traders. But it’s all about money when it comes to every day people.   People’s retirement (401k) and life savings are being hit, meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells investors to focus on the long term. Really?!\?$/!//?

The big question is, can people survive through all this? Prices are going up. If you have a 401K right now, you will recognize that it’s in a tail spin, indicating that your savings right now is being directly attacked by what’s happening on the markets. That’s why I’ve been extremely focused on the markets like a laser beam in my most recent posts.

Here is what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview on CNBC.

“What we’re trying to do is create economic certainty. We’re going to do it with the tax plan. We’re going to do it with deregulation.”

Economic certainty for who, and the big question is when?  Is this what Trump ran on? He won the presidency because people believed that he could turn our economy around. Around from what? Our economy at that point when Trump became president was the strongest in the world. I wouldn’t give President Biden all the credit for the recovery from Covid that let to a big upswing in our economy, but what Donald Trump is doing as president right now, when it counts to all Americans now more than ever is the exact opposite of what Trump said he was going to do when he became president. If this is the way to create economic certainty then it’s not an economy I want to be part of. What tax plan? What deregulation? So far, this administration was been giving us nothing concrete on what’s actually happening to make things better for the American people. Frankly, I’ve lost my patience with Trump, and so has so many Americans, many who have voted for him.

I’ve had a lot of criticizm from some of my Republican friends saying that I shouldn’t talk so negatively when I mention Donald Trump in my articles. And if you claim you are not a Republican but still refuse to speak out against his policies, then you must be a SYMPATHISER of Trump.  First, I must remind them that the URL of this website is ‘trumpdecisionpoints.com‘ and that is exactly what I’m reporting here. It’s all about the decisions of Donald J. Trump. If Trump would create something positive that people can see, then I would write about that. So far in his 2 months of being the president, he has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help the average person in this country. Right now, he’s responsible for crashing the markets. So that’s what I’m reporting here. He has given me ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to write about in his favor. In retrospect, he has hurt many of the voters that voted for him.  Matter in fact, he is on track of being singlely and directly responsible for fireing so many people in government and causing massive unemployment in a rate only 2nd to COVID.  So if people don’t like what I write here, then you don’t have to read it and stay away. But if you want to be informed with accurate information that Trump will not tell his followers, then come back and read my articles. It’s OK to form your opinion on if you agree or disagree with my thinking, but at least you can better decide for yourself what you believe is true. Take in all the facts, then decide.

After Trump stirs the markets for a day or so, then he will pause the tariffs and his rich buddies that make bets on the stock markets will make a ton of money trading. Why? Because everyone knows, including his most beloved followers know, that Trump is a COWARD, and that he CAVES, or changes course on everything that he does and some of them know Trump so well, they even know WHEN he’s going to cave. Someone needs to point this out to his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent because obviously the Energy Secretary does not know. Will the Treasury Secretary continue to say that this is the way to create economy certainty? Canada, Mexico, and now Europe certainly will disagree along with the rest of the world and so do I, but Scott Bessent actually thinks he knows best. He’s been on the job in just a little over a month, and the world is supposed to take his word for it.

THE U.S. Economy Taking a Big Hit with Trump Tariffs

March 12, 2025

Today, the DOW fell again, but not before it started off in the green, slumped to almost 41,000 points, and then varied throughout the day, with a final figure below the start of the day. But, the loss today was negligible. Just .20% and just 82.55 points below the starting mark for the day of 41,350.93. The previous close was 41,433.48 on March 11.

So at least as the markets are concerned, the investors can breathe as sigh of relief, but there are still 2 days to go before the end of market close on Friday. The markets did fair today because the futures were good throughout the night, so the starting point today was higher at market open – 41,721.36. Because of the futures trading, the market began 370.43 points higher when it opened today but still couldn’t stay above water at the closing bell.

The problem is that Donald Trump created a catastrophe in the markets that will be hard to turn back or to even stop at this point. The DOW dropped over 1,500 points in just one 7 day period and even with the good start because of the futures markets, the DOW today dropped another .20% and still going in the wrong direction.  The U.S. economy will continue to reflect the pain people will experience because of Trump’s tariffs.

Trump claims that he doesn’t look at the markets. But you know that’s a lie. He watches the markets closely, but truly doesn’t understand the implications when the stocks go down and how much it affects the middle class and the poor. Within the last 30 days, the DOW has dropped almost 4,700 points. It’s known as the ‘Trump stock effect’.

Until Trump stops implementing new tariffs each week, and stops posting on X and TruthSocial the plans of his upcoming tariffs, the American people and businesses stand to loose lots of money and the economy will continue to sink.

But now the latest developments. This evening on March 12, 2025, Trump has initiated a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum coming into this country, from anywhere in the world. Now steel and aluminum prices will go up. Automobile prices will be hit and should be noticeable almost immediately. People will step back and not purchase automobiles,  because now they will feel they need to wait until prices go back down. So Trump is not done. His tool of destruction is the tariff, and with the modest drop today in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the week will continue to be volatile. Canada and Mexico immediately retaliated this evening with reciprocal tariffs on steel and aluminum. Unfortunately the markets should continue to tank tomorrow with this news.

So the modest losses of today with the DOW will now be stepped up and the day tomorrow will be a pretty terrible day on the markets. The markets will continue to fall, and now the destruction of our economy is getting into a territory that Trump may not be able to recover from. Again, Trump is not in step with the American people and doesn’t have much regard for their well-being, as they are feeling the ‘pain’ Trump claimed would come.

Starting around February 12th, the markets started to really start tumbling in a negative direction. On the very same day, the Russian markets started to peak. Trump made announcements about his upcoming tariffs and his stance about Ukraine, which sent stocks in Russia soaring. The Russian markets haven’t been this good since the beginning of the war 3 years ago. When Trump opens his mouth and supports Putin, their markets rally.

Trump appears to be doing more for Russia’s economy than he is for the U.S. economy. Trump opens his mouth, initiates tariffs that affect Americans, and our economy suffers while the stock markets sink. There are 30 major companies represented on the DOW JONES stock exchange, and only 11 of the 30 made positive gains in the market today. So 19 companies had losses in their market shares. Trump’s ignorance is on show for the whole world to see. He is treating the U.S. economy like one of his businesses. And on this course it will also go bankrupt as did many of Trump’s businesses over the years.

I’ll report on the futures market soon, and what to expect tomorrow.

The DOW Continues On Its Rocky Ride

March 11, 2025

Early Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1%, or more than 400 points, while the S&P 500 dropped 0.7%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite moved 0.4% lower in morning trades. At the end of the trading day, the markets ending another negative day with a loss of more than 478 points.

Just after the market open Tuesday, President Trump ordered an additional 25%-50% tariff on all steel and aluminum coming into the U.S. from Canada. The tariffs will go into effect tomorrow morning – March 12, 2025, according to President Trump’s post on Truth Social. That only means one thing. Reciprocal tariffs will be issued against the United States from Canada. There is no true winner here. Especially not investors or every day folks that go to work each day, work hard for their earnings and then come home and read the headlines, with Donald Trump in the news leading the way for markets to decline.

So who’s going to be a winner here? Truthfully not every day people, and unless you have the funds and the stomach to wade through the crazy markets, you will loose money. Is this the pain that Donald Trump wants us to feel? Is this what is right for America, especially right before a possible government shutdown on Friday. Hopefully the government shutdown can be averted.

There has been some hopeful days this month, but there is what is called the ‘fears index’, which just implies the volatility based on the options market and it has been getting higher each day, some of the highest levels experienced in months. This can be a signal as this gets excessive that the bottom is close by, but the warning is that the index can get a lot higher before it starts to come down.

At market close on Tuesday, there was still a sell-off as the DOW dropped another 478 points, a 1.14% drop, now at 41,433.48.

The S&P dropped .76% while the Nasdaq dropped .18%. It’s a little slower than for the previous days, but there still is a continuous drop that will effect or economy, kill jobs, a create higher costs. Trump believes that this will be temporary, but all indications from the people in-the-know say that this type of pain can last a long time. In just 50 days, Trump has hurt the economy as to just about push it off of a cliff and now in a free-fall. Trump believes that he has complete control of it. At the click of his fingers, he believes that the economy will be fixed, and that tariff prices will be stopped. There is nothing to explain it better than being in free-fall. For the last two weeks, especially since Trump originally initiated the 20% tariffs against Canada and Mexico, the markets have been so volatile that it’s getting hard to determine now how far it may go. The Dow slid nearly 500 points Tuesday after Trump announced and then walked back new tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, amid ongoing economic uncertainty — after closing 890 points down Monday. Canada has vowed to retaliate with tariffs of their own, and went as far as they may decide to cut electrical power off from 3 northern states if Trump continues his tariffs against Canada that receive hydro-electric power generated in Canada. As expected, Trump pulled back, now blaming his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for all the chaos that he’s causing with announced tariffs.

In a response to reciprocal tariffs from Canada, Trump says he will more than double the tariffs from 20% to 45%. The citizens of the United States are in for a shock. If this all plays out for the worst, Tuesday will be a preview doomsday event.

I will be following the stocks pretty intently tomorrow, and report it as things happen, so there should be several updates throughout the day tomorrow.