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Trump Facts – And They Are Not Good

Imagine if any other president, Democrat or Republican had a record of corruption like Donald J. Trump.

Here are the Trump Facts that no sane person would deny…

1st – Trump is a Soulless POS.

The claim that Donald Trump is “soulless” is a subjective characterization made by critics, journalists, and mental health professionals who argue he lacks empathy, remorse, and moral conscience.

2nd – He’s had 2 Impeachments and the next one may count.

Donald Trump was impeached twice by the U.S. House of Representatives on December 18, 2019, and January 13, 2021, making him the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice.

First Impeachment: The House voted on two articles—abuse of power (230–197) and obstruction of Congress (229–198)—following an inquiry into Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. The Senate trial began on January 16, 2020, and concluded with his acquittal on February 5, 2020.

Second Impeachment: Charged with incitement of insurrection after the January 6 Capitol attack, Trump was impeached just seven days before leaving office. The Senate trial commenced on February 9, 2021, ending in a second acquittal on February 13, 2021, with 57 senators voting guilty and 43 not guilty

3rd – He’s had three baby mommas

Trump had 5 children with 3 wives. Donald Trump’s five children were born to three different mothers: Ivana Trump, Marla Maples, and Melania Trump.

Ivana Trump (1949–2022) is the mother of Donald Trump Jr. (born 1977), Ivanka Trump (born 1981), and Eric Trump (born 1984). She was married to Donald Trump from 1977 to 1990.
Marla Maples (born 1963) is the mother of Tiffany Trump (born 1993). She was married to Donald Trump from 1993 to 1999.
Melania Trump (born 1970) is the mother of Barron Trump (born 2006) She has been married to Donald Trump since 2005 and served as First Lady during his presidencies.

4th – He has been indicted 4 times

Trump was charged for falsifying business records, but sentenced with unconditional discharge on January 10, 2025 after he won the presidency.

Trump was charged with mishandling National Security documents but the case was dismissed without prejudice July 15, 2024, by Judge Aileen Cannon not without prejudice, but in its entirety with prejudice, based on the grounds that the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional.

Judge Aileen Cannon favored Trump in every instant. She disregarded the facts and Trump got away with a conviction when all the facts pointed to Trump being guilty of mishandling National Security documents. He took documents from the Whitehouse when he was evicted from the Whitehouse after his first term, and pictures of the boxes of files were found in a bathroom at Mara Largo.

5th – There are 5 brats in his life.

Donald Trump has five children from his three marriages: Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump with his first wife Ivana Trump; Tiffany Trump with his second wife Marla Maples; and Barron Trump with his third wife Melania Trump. Donald Trump Jr. (born 1977), Ivanka Trump (born 1981), and Eric Trump (born 1984) are the eldest siblings, all of whom have served as executive vice presidents at the Trump Organization. Tiffany Trump (born 1993) works outside the family company and specializes in technology and cyber national security, while Barron Trump (born 2006) is the youngest and recently began attending New York University’s Stern Business School.

Collectively, these five siblings have 11 grandchildren between them, with Donald Jr. having five children, Ivanka having three, Eric having two, and Tiffany expecting her first child.

6th – He’s had Five Draft Deferments

Donald Trump received five deferments from the military draft during the Vietnam War, according to a new report, including one medical exemption for a problem with his heels.

Trump was granted one medical and four educational deferments, which kept him out of the conflict, The New York Times reported Monday.

7th – He filed for bankruptcy 6 times.

Donald Trump’s businesses have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy six times between 1991 and 2014, though Trump himself has never filed for personal bankruptcy. These filings involved over-leveraged casino and hotel entities that used the legal process to restructure debt while often allowing Trump to retain licensing fees and reduce his ownership stake.

The six specific corporate bankruptcies are:

Trump Taj Mahal (1991): Filed after failing to cover $47.3 million in bond payments on $3 billion in debt.
Trump Castle (1992): Restructured $338 million in debt, forcing Trump to surrender 50% equity to bondholders.
Trump Plaza Hotel (1992): Filed with over $550 million in debt; Trump gave up a 49% stake and management duties.
Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts (2004): The largest filing with $1.8 billion in debt, reducing Trump’s stake from 56% to roughly 27%.
Trump Entertainment Resorts (2009): Filed during the financial crisis with $1.74 billion in debt; Trump resigned as chairman.
Trump Entertainment Resorts (2014): A second filing for the same entity due to continued losses at the Taj Mahal, leading to its eventual closure.

8th – He’s been on the Epstein Plane 7 different times.

Donald Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet at least seven to eight times between 1993 and 1997, according to flight logs and a January 2020 email from an assistant U.S. attorney. While Trump publicly claimed in 2024 that he was “never on Epstein’s Plane,” released documents confirm multiple trips, with pilot Larry Visoski testifying under oath to Trump’s presence.

Specific documented flight dates include:

April 23, 1993: Teterboro, NJ to Palm Beach, FL (Co-passengers: Epstein, Erin Nance Hill).
October 11, 1993: Palm Beach, FL to Teterboro, NJ (Co-passengers: Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Dawn Devito).
October 17, 1993: Palm Beach, FL to Teterboro, NJ (Co-passengers: Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Dawn Devito).
May 15, 1994: Palm Beach, FL to Washington, DC, and onward to Teterboro, NJ (Co-passengers: Epstein, Marla Maples, Tiffany Trump’s Nanny).
August 13, 1995: Palm Beach, FL to Teterboro, NJ (Co-passengers: Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Eric Trump).
January 5, 1997: Palm Beach, FL to Newark, NJ (Co-passengers: Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Mark Epstein).
July 19, 1997: Palm Beach, FL to Teterboro, NJ (Co-passenger: Epstein).

A 2020 prosecutor’s email noted that Trump traveled on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including one instance where only Trump, Epstein, and an unnamed 20-year-old woman were aboard. The Department of Justice stated in 2026 that some documents contained “untrue and sensationalist claims” against Trump, but confirmed the release of flight records showing these travels.

9th – He’s had at least 26 Assault Accusations

At least 26 women have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, encompassing 43 instances of alleged unwanted sexual contact ranging from non-consensual kissing and groping to rape. These allegations, detailed in the 2019 book All the President’s Women, span from the 1970s to 2016 and include accusations from models, beauty pageant contestants, business partners, and journalists.

Legal Findings and Denials In May 2023, a civil jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse against writer E. Jean Carroll regarding an incident in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s, ordering him to pay damages; the jury did not find sufficient evidence to prove her specific claim of rape. Trump has consistently denied all allegations, characterizing them as a “hoax” or politically motivated, and has not faced criminal convictions for these charges.

Notable Accusers and Incidents

Jessica Leeds alleged Trump groped her on a first-class flight in the late 1970s.
Ivana Trump, his first wife, described an encounter in a 1989 divorce deposition using the word “rape,” though she later clarified she did not mean it in a literal criminal sense.
Natasha Stoynoff, a People magazine writer, accused him of forcibly kissing her at Mar-a-Lago in 2005.
Summer Zervos, a former The Apprentice contestant, alleged unwanted kissing and groping in 2007.
Amy Dorris, a former model, is cited as the newest accuser in some reports, alleging assault at the 1997 US Open.

10th – He has 34 Felony Convictions

Donald Trump was convicted on May 30, 2024, of 34 felony counts of first-degree falsifying business records in New York, making him the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. The charges stemmed from a scheme to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign by falsifying invoices and checks to reimburse his attorney, Michael Cohen.

On January 10, 2025, Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge, meaning he remains a convicted felon but faces no prison time, fines, or probation. The judge cited constitutional protections afforded to the president-elect as the reason for avoiding harsher penalties, though he emphasized this did not excuse the underlying crimes. Trump has appealed the conviction, arguing presidential immunity, but the verdict currently stands on his record.

11th – He’s been charged with 88 felonies

Former President Donald Trump was charged with a total of 88 felony counts across four separate criminal indictments between 2023 and 2025, making him the first U.S. president to face criminal charges. As of late 2025, 34 of these counts resulted in convictions while the remaining 52 charges were dismissed.

Convictions and Sentencing The 34 felony convictions stem from the New York hush-money case, where a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on May 30, 2024, of falsifying business records in the first degree. On January 10, 2025, Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge, meaning the criminal conviction stands on his record but he received no jail time, fines, or probation.

Breakdown of the Four Cases The 88 original charges were distributed across four distinct legal battles involving state and federal prosecutors:

New York State Case: 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels; resulted in 34 guilty verdicts.
Federal Classified Documents Case: 40 counts (originally 37, later superseded) involving willful retention of national defense information and conspiracy to obstruct justice in Florida; charges were dismissed.
Federal Election Interference Case: 4 counts related to conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruct the 2020 election certification; charges were dismissed.
Georgia Election Interference Case: 13 counts (reduced from an original 41-count indictment) alleging violations of RICO and conspiracy to commit forgery; charges were dismissed.

12th – He’s pleaded the fifth 440 times.

President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 440 times during a civil deposition in his first presidency with the New York Attorney General‘s office in August 2022. According to multiple reports citing sources with knowledge of the session, he answered only one question—confirming his name—while repeatedly stating “same answer” to decline further inquiries regarding the investigation into his business practices.

Context and Implications The deposition was part of Letitia James‘s investigation into whether the Trump Organization misrepresented asset valuations for financial gain. While no adverse inference of guilt can be drawn in criminal cases, legal experts note that in civil proceedings, a judge may infer that withheld testimony would have been unfavorable to the party invoking the privilege. This strategy mirrored previous depositions in the same probe where Eric Trump and former CFO Allen Weisselberg each invoked the Fifth Amendment over 500 times.

Contradiction with Past Statements The event drew significant attention because Donald Trump had previously criticized others for pleading the Fifth, famously stating in a 2016 rally that “the mob takes the Fifth” and asking, “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” Following his 2022 deposition, he reversed this stance, claiming he exercised the right because his family and company were targets of a “politically motivated Witch Hunt.”

He’s the first President EVER to be charged with a State or Federal crime.

He’s the first President EVER to be impeached twice.

He’s the first President EVER to be indicted 4 times.

He’s the first President EVER to have a MUG SHOT.

He’s the first President EVER to have a Probation Officer.

He’s the first President EVER to be charged with 88 felonies.

He’s the first President EVER to be convicted of 34 felonies.

He’s the first President EVER to incite a Domestic Terrorist Attack.

President Trump is such a stand up guy. All Republicans that still follow him need to be just like him.

A Friends False Belief about Donald Trump

I have a Republican friend who lives in Wisconsin named Scott K. who likes to blame presidents from the past, and ignore all of the bad things that the present Republican President Donald Trump has done to our Democracy. He sends me lies in the form of text messages. My friend Scott K. has his blinders on. He doesn’t recognize all the things Trump has done in just under two years as our president in his second term, let alone accounting for everything he did in his first term. Here’s what he says, and I quote him from a text he sent me not even related to Donald Trump.

“The only insurrection was caused by Pelosi, and finally she and her husband are having to pay for all their insider stock trading.”

There isn’t even once ounce of truth to my friend’s statement.

I guess my friend wants to forget the following at the same time he likes to just piss me off…

The January 6 United States Capitol attack, widely characterized as an insurrection or attempted coup, occurred on January 6, 2021. The event began at approximately 12:53 p.m. and lasted until the Capitol was secured around 5:40 p.m. (UTC−05:00) in Washington, D.C.

Nancy Pelosi didn’t cause the insurrection. She was in session to confirm Joe Biden as President of the United States when Trump’s sickos attacked the Capital.

So what Scott H. claims is a total lie

The people who attacked the Capital entered Nancy Pelosi’s office and ransacked it and destroyed government property. They defecated in her office. Then Trump gets re-elected and pardons every one of the insurrectionists the first day of his presidency. Anyone who does anything in his name will face no accountability as long as he is president because of his immunity given to him by the Republican led Supreme Court.

Key Facts:

Cause: The attack was driven by false claims of 2020 presidential election fraud made by then-President Donald Trump and his allies to prevent the certification of Joe Biden‘s victory.

NOW HERE IS A FACT that my friend Scott K needs to know…

Nancy Pelosi has never been fined or prosecuted for insider trading.

So what Scott K said in his text message is a lie.

Scott, find me the proof and I’ll remove this statement. While her husband’s stock trades have faced intense scrutiny and allegations of benefiting from insider information, no formal charges or penalties have been issued against her. The existing STOCK Act of 2012, which governs congressional trading, carries a maximum penalty of only $200 for late financial disclosures, a fine that has resulted in zero prosecutions in over a decade. But with that said, I’ll concede and say she wasn’t very ethical either, and for that matter, which Congressman in the House or Senate are actually ethical these days. But to restate this, Nancy Pelosi has never paid a red cent for insider stock trading. Here’s what I say…”All are crooks.” I’ve told my friend this time and time again, yet Scott K. wants to blame every Democrat he decides to without any credible proof.

But Donald J. Trump takes ‘the cake’.

Maybe my friend Scott K. hasn’t read the news lately, on all the money Trump has made with Meme Coin. But let’s go there for a moment to educate him on it. What I’m including here is just the ‘tip of the iceberg’.

President Donald Trump has made at least $2.2 billion in revenue during his first year back in office (2025), according to federal financial disclosures released in July 2026. Some analyses, such as one by Forbes, estimate his total intake closer to $2.4 billion including asset sales, while other trackers suggest his family’s ventures have generated up to $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth since his January 2025 inauguration.

Cryptocurrency is the primary driver of this wealth, accounting for approximately $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion of his income through ventures like World Liberty Financial and the $TRUMP meme coin. This represents a roughly 250% increase from his 2024 revenue of $622 million, with significant additional earnings coming from international licensing deals ($125 million) and legal settlements ($117 million).

While the White House maintains that the president operates via a “blind account” and faces no conflicts of interest, critics describe the scale of enrichment as unprecedented in modern U.S. history. The reported figures reflect gross revenue and proceeds rather than net profit, and exact tax liabilities remain unknown as Trump has not released his tax returns.

No other president in U.S. history has abused his power as president as he has with his financial ventures and then never reported them on his tax returns.

No single federal law completely prevents a sitting U.S. president from earning gross income or profits from stocks, but several constitutional provisions and proposed legislation aim to limit such financial gains.

The Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 and Article II, Section 1, Clause 7) prohibit presidents from receiving gifts, payments, or profits from foreign or domestic governments without Congressional consent, though their application to private stock market gains remains legally contested. Qatar gifted a Boeing 747-8 jet to the United States for use by President Donald Trump as a temporary Air Force One. The aircraft, valued at approximately $400 million, was donated by the Qatari royal family in May 2025 as an “unconditional” gift to the U.S. Department of Defense. The new jet is now being fitted with the protections needed in an Air Force One jet, and the American people pay for the upgrades. It should not be personal property owned by Trump after he leaves office, but he plans to either use it to replace his personal jet or to retire it in a museum created in his name.

The Domestic Emoluments Clause restricts additional compensation from U.S. or state governments beyond the fixed presidential salary. Donald Trump receives a statutory annual salary of $400,000 from the U.S. government, paid monthly, along with a $50,000 non-taxable expense allowance and additional funds for travel ($100,000) and entertainment ($19,000). However, during both his first and current terms, he has formally accepted only a symbolic $1 salary, donating the remainder of his official compensation to various federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Park Service.

Regarding foreign income, reports indicate significant financial benefits to Donald Trump from abroad.

A House Oversight Committee report found his businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments during his first presidency, while Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) estimates the total likely benefited him to the tune of $13.6 million. In 2025 alone, his businesses reportedly earned an unprecedented $2.24 billion, marking a 280% increase from 2017, though the specific portion of this revenue directly attributable to foreign government payments in the current term is not explicitly detailed in the available data. No other president in American history has made money from foreign governments while in office.

The Foreign Emoluments Clause bars benefits from foreign states unless Congress approves. This also applies to the jet that Qatar gave to Trump. But Trump thinks nothing of not following the law. He accepted the jet anyway and we the citizens are paying for the overhaul.

The Ethics in Government Act requires financial disclosure but does not mandate divestiture or blind trusts for presidents. Where are Trumps financial returns for 2025. He never plans to give financial disclosure to keep his income private.

The STOCK Act applies to Congress and federal employees but does not explicitly bind the president against stock trading.

Proposed bills like the NO PROFIT Act (introduced June 2026) seek to impose a 100% tax on presidential stock gains unless assets are in a qualified blind trust. While historical practice shows most modern presidents have used blind trusts to avoid conflicts, there is no enforceable statutory ban preventing a president from personally profiting from stock investments while in office. But just so you know, Donald Trump does not have a true blind trust. Unlike every U.S. president since the 1970s, Trump has never placed his assets in a blind trust that would hide their contents from him and be managed by an independent trustee.

Revocable Trust Structure. Instead of a blind trust, Trump utilizes a revocable trust managed by his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, along with former CFO Allen Weisselberg. This arrangement allows Trump to withdraw money at will, retain ownership of his businesses, and potentially revoke the trust at any time, offering no barrier against conflicts of interest.

Knowledge of Holdings. Although Trump has referred to his investments as a “blind account,” federal disclosure documents signed by the president in 2026 confirm he knows exactly what stocks he owns. If it was a ‘blind Trust’ Trump would not know. Filings reveal he executed 3,642 individual stock transactions in early 2026, including trades in companies regulated by his administration, which contradicts the definition of a blind trust where the owner is unaware of specific assets.

The bottom line here is that

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP IS CORRUPT

He is not like any other president in U.S. history. He is not transparent and doesn’t want anyone to know about his business dealings. He personally profits whenever he can and has no shame in doing it. While the American people are struggling financially, Trump is living his dream.

Scott, instead of texting me that garbage, try and be a real friend. We both know that we will never agree with politics, so why bring up my ire in text messages like that. If you continue to do that, then I will have no recourse than to refute everything you say that is factually wrong in articles on this website like this very article.

Sexual Misconduct by Donald J. Trump

So far in Donald Trump’s life, he has been publicly accused by 28 women, who have either have claimed sexual misconduct, including rape, sexual assault, unwanted groping, and kissing. Actually, the total number of accusers varies depending on the types of incidents counted. He acted to satisfy himself, with no consideration of how the women he attacked felt.

There have been public accusers, which included documented timelines, such as those compiled on Wikipedia, with at least 28 individual women.

Donald Trump’s Civil Court Outcomes while never criminally convicted for these acts, was found liable by a federal civil jury in 2023 for the sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll.

There are cataloged accounts such as published in a book ‘All the President’s Women’ – have cataloged accounts and allegations from upwards of 40 to nearly 70 women depending on how unverified or peripheral claims are categorized. Of course, the liar that Trump is, he has adamantly denied all accusations.

But regardless of what he says, which most of the time is just a lie, he has been accused of sexual conduct with the following women…

Jessica Leeds
Ivana Trump
Kristin Anderson
Jill Harth
E. Jean Carroll
Cathy Heller
Temple Taggart
Mariah Billado
Karena Virginia
Bridget Sullivan
Tasha Dixon
Mindy McGillibray
Rachael Crooks
Natasha Stoymoff
Jessica Drake
Ninni Leaksonen
Summer Zervos
Cassandra Searles
Alva Johnson
Lisa Boyne
Amy Dorris
Stacey Williams

Trump is a sexual predator. He’s been abusing women for over 50 years of record. But for whatever reason, the only sexual case that he has been convicted of is with the attack of E. Jean Carrol in an apartment store. Trump is a disgusting human being. The sickofants that follow him after knowing about his past along with his convictions, are ignorant and blind. He has been destroying the country in his second reign as president, but people seem to care less.

In a 2005 recording with Billy Bush, Donald Trump made lewd remarks about women, stating: “I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

That’s pretty sick. But if you ask my Republican friends about it, they will tell you that Trump is a good person. Trump decided willingly and willfully to act in this manner. It was his decision to do so. It was one decision point of Donald Trump that may not only put him in jeopardy to keep his freedom someday when the Democratic Oversight Committee takes form in November of 2006. Unending hearings will be taking place, and everyone will finally realize what an evil man Donald J. Trump is. He may pardon all of the January 6th rioters and other that do not deserve a pardon, but he will not be able to pardon himself. President Donald Trump pardoned nearly 1,600 individuals charged or convicted in connection with the January 6 United States Capitol attack on January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term. The proclamation granted full pardons to most defendants and commuted the sentences of 14 specific individuals, including leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Just Day #2 of Trump’s World Wide Tariffs – A Recession is now on the Horizon

April 4, 2025

The market freefall continues. Just yesterday, the DOW plunged by 2,035 points in a massive sell-off. Another $2 Trillion dollars just wiped out of the U.S. economy. A final report for the day will be coming after the markets close. Why does the markets continue to plunge? Because just as expected, China has retaliated with reciprocal tariffs aimed at the U.S. The tariff response is very high. What is the tariff imposed by China? Who cares at this point. What China has done was to make sure that its people don’t purchase American made products because they will be priced out of reach by most people in their country, and they will be forced to purchase anything besides U.S. goods. That’s how the Canadians are thinking too. Economists predict that a recession probability jumed from just 40% last week to 60% this week.

Why does China want to raise prices to their people. Actually, they don’t want too, as unfortunately China seems to know more about global trade than our president does. The end goal is to make sure that the Chinese people decide to purchase Chinese products instead on American made markets. That’s the idea behind tariffs. The demand for U.S. products will go down, and exports to China will go down. China will do what the American president thinks he can do better. The fact is that Trump most likely will not ever be successful, but the Chinese president most likely will because China will now have more willing trading partners than America. And if the Chinese president can’t do it all on his own, he will import from other countries, like he is already doing. The Chinese economy is surpassing America’s economy by a long shot. Canada and Mexico have made recent trade agreements with China, so they can import goods at just about no tariff rate attached. So China will be better off. America will not. Canada has decided to sell the oil to other countries instead of America. Previous to Trump’s trade war, Canada was sending 97% of all oil they produced to America. That’s no longer. What country in their right mind wants to trade with America right now. The answer is – NONE. Free trade will continue between the rest of the world, excluding the United States. So what’s left for America? As Trump sees it as temporary pain, the prices of goods will come down. If America can hold on as long as that will take, Trump may be right. The prices will come down because the supply of American goods will increase because other countries will not want to pay high prices for our products that they can purchase elsewhere at a lower price. American products with higher inflated prices will have to be purchased by U.S. consumers. The U.S. buyer will not have much of a choice other than to buy American, as foreign products will become more expensive to buy. Since the products Americans will be purchasing more now will be made in America, the prices will go down. The ‘Supply vs. Demand’ formula no longer works in a ‘stagnation’ economy. The prices will have to come down to convince any American to purchase anything.

Unfortunately, America does not have the time to wait for this to happen. It can’t happen overnight. The auto industry is a prime example. Let’s take Ford Motors for example. Not a single Ford vehicle sold in this country can be made with parts ONLY made in America. If Trump put a 100% tariff on Mexico, Ford Motors would go out of business immediately. A percentage of parts put in Ford products are made in MEXICO. So in order for the cars to be sold in America, the part made in Mexico that are installed in Mexico will be tariffed and the parts, along with the vehicles will go up drastically in price. Tooling an economy in the U.S. that can handle making products totally in America like the automobile will take more time than Donald Trump has left in his 2nd term. Can the citizens of America wait for this to happen? Of course not. The markets are steadily dropping each and every day. 401K’s are dwindling, people are loosing jobs. Farmers are going to be decimated. China has just banned Soybeans from the U.S. Soy bean exports will drop considerabaly and some U.S. farmers will go out of business. Nothing short of a recession can happen if things don’t turn around.

Maybe Donald Trump has a trick in his sleeve to jump start the U.S. economy, but he has not given not even once ounce of the formula and the steps he is taking to accomplish this, other than to tariff the world.

The world economy is just what it states. It’s a world economy, and Trump doesn’t like it. He’s obsessed with tariffs. He did them in his first presidency, and he’s doing it again. China saw the first taste of tariffs from Trump in 2017. Now they are ready to confront him, and they are. Trump will never get the economy under control with the time he has left in office. The pain that America is experiencing will be felt for years to come.

Well, I didn’t realize that the stock markets have closed while writing this article. It’s even more dismal than yesterday, with the DOW dropping another -2,231.07 points, with the value dropping another 5.5 %, at least another $2 trillion in a single day. More to come in the next article.

Since inauguration day, market losses now verge on $11 trillion.

Markets Crashed from the First Moment today – No Liberation Day but a Promised Recession

April 3, 2025

Right on cue. As predicted, the U.S. stock market has tanked, as Donald J. Trump, a convicted felon destroys the U.S. economy that was once the envy of the world.

As the coward Trump is, he waited until the stock markets closed yesterday when he finally initiated his latest tariffs, this time affecting countries around the world. And yes, he says he doesn’t monitor the stock markets. Just another lie. It is now officially known at the Trump International Trade War. Trump owns it. He cannot blame Biden or Obama. No smart president in his right mind would do such a thing, but Trump is literally sick, and he is now taking the country to a recession and a lower GDP of at least 3%. Before his election, the GDP was expected to grow by at least 3%. When the markets closed yesterday, i.e. the DOW was up by 235 points. Traders were hoping for the best, but knew what was going to come as soon as Trump went forward with his dire plan.

The DOW futures just before market opening in just 10 minutes is down by nearly 1200 points. A total disaster.

Time to pause this report, as the moment of recogning is fast approaching. I’ll continue with this note when the markets actually open in 8 minutes…

9:30AM ET (MARKETS NOW OPEN)

OK, the moment is here. The DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE, known as the DOW, closed yesterday in the green from the previous day of 235 points, up by just .56%. This morning it has now opened in the negative of 1,111.22 points or -2.63% from yesterdays close of 42,225.32. I’ve been predicting this moment for months. It opened today at 41,114.10. That is just a total disaster, completely brought on by Trump, who wants to make sure that Americans feel pain. The economy is weaker and EVERYTHING just got more expensive. So much for Donald Trump promising that the economy will get better and that he would lower prices. Some businesses will be forced to close. At this moment of time, there is the highest unemployement filing in the country since 2021. This disaster all happened in the last 80 days, when Trump became president.

The other markets that Americans follow fell too, and not by just a little. Roughly two hours before the start of trade at 9:30AM ET this morning, futures for the S&P 500 plunged 190 points, or 3.3%, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrrial Average and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index sank 3% and 4%, respectively.

I am literally sick about this result from Trumps egregous disregard to the American economy. Countries around the world will reciprocate in their own way with tariffs against the United States of their own. Like I said, literally EVERYTHING has just become more expensive. It’s like jumping off of a cliff. Once you jump, you will continue to fall to your death. This is what is happening to us now.

Donald Trump is a disaster in all things related to the economy. He’s the guy that promised to address the high cost of living, and he stated that costs would go down on DAY 1 of his presidency. That is not happening. Costs are not going down, they are going up. Inflation is going up. No doubt the stock market is colapsing, and what that means is that the retirement savings of every day Americans are disappearing by the hour. It is all because of Donald Trump’s reckless mis-managment of the economy, as he knew full well what was going to happen. Economists predicted it and now these tariffs that he imposed will raise the cost of everything for everyday Americans in many estimates of thousands of dollars per year. Who gets affected the most? Regular people like you and me will feel the ‘pain’, and it’s not going to go away any time soon. Of course rich guys like Trump and Musk could care less because the tariffs don’t affect Trump. They will affect Musk in a way as it will negatively impact his Tesla business but that’s just a drop in a bucket for the richest man in the world.

Trump was supposed to help grow the economy, at least that’s what people voted for him to do when he became president, but instead, he is crashing the economy in real time. Today is NOT liberation day, it’s RECESSION DAY, because that’s where we are headed.

Most people aren’t aware of these things until it affects them. Maybe they will wake up when the cost of gasoline goes through the roof. That’s coming. I haven’t been wrong in the past, and I’m not wrong now. It’s coming.

All we can do now is pray that Trump shows his cowardness once again when he finally drops the tariffs, hoping that other countries will drop theirs. Yes, he says he doesn’t look at the stock exchanges, but I would bet any money that he is now.

Trumps Claim – Liberation Day is Tomorrow April 2

April 1, 2025

Well, today is April Fools Day, and it is truly a day for fools. What’s being liberated is your wallet, your paycheck and the economy. In the few days up to ‘Liberation Day’, the stock markets have been very unsettled. On Thursday last week, the markets crashed with a 700 point fall. But on Friday and Monday, the markets responded positively. This is known as the ‘Calm before the Storm’.

Now, idiot Donald Trump is putting his tariff wars on a worldwide scale. Chaos is visable for everyone to see. His reciprical tariffs as he calls them are meant to hurt just about every country that does business with the United States. As if the markets haven’t suffered enough, Trump’s aim is to deliver ‘PAIN’ around the world. And Trump claims he doesn’t care about anyone or their personal wallets. He claims that he doesn’t watch the stock market, but everyone knows that’s a lie. If he really does not, that in itself is a tragedy, proving the point that he doesn’t care about Americans and their well being. He doesn’t care if inflation goes up. Maybe all he needs to do is talk to his co-commander and chief Elon Musk, and ask him how the trade wars are effecting his Tesla business.

Markets, traders and brokers react in advance of things. They calculate their decisions before the big event to be able to capitalize on what’s going to happen.

Just so you realize this, Trump has already destroyed the tax base of the Internal Revenue Service. To run our government, to pay on social security, veterans benefits, medicade and medicare, student loans, there are regulations surrounding how things operate. Donald Trump is destroying all the norms and protections that the American people have enjoyed since World War II.

Trump thinks he can tariff his way to liberate America to eliminate debt, but instead, he is doing just the opposite. He wants to tariff to the tune of 4 trillion dollars. That’s what the economists say, and people who understand better than I what Trump is trying to do here. The only thing I understand from all of this is that he wants the money to give tax breaks for the rich, although he claims that he will also balance the budget, which is impossible, mainly because of the tariffs he is now imposing on the American people.

The American people are SUCKERS. At least the people who voted for him are. Many who voted for him are now out of work. Their lives destroyed from the king they thought would save our economy. Now where is it?

Automobile reciprical tariffs posed by other countries to the U.S. will cripple the U.S. economy. Trump claims that we don’t need help from Canada or Mexico. Really!!! Does he not understand that EVERY American car today can not be assembled in America without parts that are made in Canada and Mexico? Reciprical tariffs from other countries will expode the cost of American cars. Goods and consumeables that come from both Canada and Mexico will soon be priced out of reach. Gasoline prices will soon explode. Canada now plans to cut off oil exports to the U.S. while they also plan to cut hydro-electric power to a few northern states that depend on Canadian power. But even before they completely cut off the power, they will tariff their energy to American consumers. Prices of energy have already gone up. So tell me where Trump is saving our economy.

Doesn’t Trump realize that Ford and GM make their cars in MEXICO? You can’t built an American made car using American made parts. World trade has evolved in such a way that all countries are dependent on each other. Maybe that’s not the vision that Trump has, but it’s the reality that we face at this moment. You cannot just turn off Canada and Mexico if you plan to build American made cars. There is a high percentage of foreign imports, including from Japan, parts that are installed in American made cars. Foreign and GM cars that go across the border during producion are subject to tariffs and the cost of these vehicles will skyrocket. Even if all of the Assembly lines for American made cars were in the United States, which they are not, car productions would cease, because the United States is not tooled up at the moment to produce all parts that go in American made cars.

Now personally, I don’t believe that Trump will go through with this ‘liberation day movement’. Why do I believe that? Because Trump is watch the stock markets, even though the liar that he is says that he’s not watching. The world economies and stock markets are reacting negatively to what Trump is doing with tariffs.

Consumer confidence is down at its lowest in three years. Manufacturing confidence is down at its lowest in more than ten years. Most major investent banks have raised their expectations considerablly that a recession is coming. The odds given by these banks put the odds now at about 40%. It’s hard to imagine that just 70 days ago when Biden was still President that the markets were booming and the United States economy was the envy of the world. Now, the world is nervously watching the U.S. economy crumble, and is looking for a new leader in world markets, sidestepping the United States as the country to envy.

SO, THE TRUMP RECESSION IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. He will own it. His Republican party will explode because of it. Unfortunately, the American people will feel the ‘PAIN’ from it. But we have just under two years to go before Trump becomes a ‘lame duck’ and his Republican party will crumble. Hopefully by then, it will not be too late for the Democrats again to try and save the country. But I don’t believe it can happen now until a recession happens and if this president is allowed to act as he has done since the election, a depression will come next. Then maybe the only being that can save us the ‘our Supreme Being’, God himself.

Stay tuned for stock market updates starting tonight with the close of the market. But what I can tell you now that just about all the gains the markets gained on Monday has been extinguished, as the futures show the DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE now down by 231 points or .55%. Stock futures for the S&P and NASDAQ markets are also down. Tariff anxiety lingers which is not a good thing. The markets will preface what the traders will feel on ‘liberation day’ in which millions or billions of dollars will be ‘liberated’ from Americans who support our markets, thanks to a president who claims he doesn’t care how we feel. Also, you may want to check your 401K value as the week goes on. If I’m right, it’s not going to be pretty.

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.

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.