President Donald Trump complained that the world was becoming a “casino” after a U.S. soldier was charged with allegedly using classified information to make over $400,000 on the operation to capture former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking with reporters at the Oval Office about insider trading in prediction markets, a journalist asked the president whether he was concerned that insider trading could be used to profit from the war with Iran.
“The whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino,” Trump responded, saying he was never a fan of prediction markets.
“I don’t like it conceptually, but it is what it is,” he added, saying he wasn’t happy with it.
“It’s a crazy world; it’s a much different world than it was,” Trump concluded.
Concerns about insider trading being used to enrich people off of real-world events, possibly endangering national security in the process, came to the forefront on Thursday when
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