President Donald Trump raised eyebrows Friday by sharing a video on Truth Social that claims he purposefully crashed the stock market to “push cash into treasuries.” Trump’s timing was especially provocative because his rollout of tariffs the previous day resulted in a multi-trillion dollar market wipeout.
Trump shared a video by a supporter that was posted to X Thursday evening with the caption, “Trump is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.”
The video — which appropriates narration from a March 13 Instagram post by finance influencer Brian Decker — first appeared on a TikTok page that previously accused Hollywood elites of eating mermaids.
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In an apparent validation of the video and Decker’s core theory, senior Trump adviser Jason Miller noted,
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