President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter who asked how much economic pain he would be willing to tolerate as his tariffs wreck the stock market.The president returned Sunday evening to Washington, D.C., as U.S. stock futures plunged, indicating more market turmoil ahead, following two days go...

Summary

Trump snapped at a reporter who asked how much economic pain he was willing to inflict amid plunging markets triggered by his new tariffs.

Speaking after a weekend at his Florida resort, Trump dismissed speculation he was trying to crash the market, claiming tariffs would bring in “$1 trillion” and spur U.S. manufacturing.

When asked about a pain threshold for Americans, he called the question “so stupid,” arguing economic “medicine” was necessary to reverse decades of “stupid leadership.”

He insisted the strategy would make the U.S. “solid and strong again.”

  • DrFistington@lemmy.world
    140·
    19 hours ago

    Well, it is a stupid question. A real journalist would ask how much more pain he’s willing to let the American people tolerate for his poorly disguised reverse pump and dump scheme