Summary

As Trump’s erratic tariff policy rattles global markets, investors and financial analysts are questioning his mental fitness.

Tom Lee of FSInsights said macro fund managers fear the White House is “not acting rationally, but rather on ideology,” with some even wondering if “the President might be insane.”

Lee placed full blame on Trump, saying his decisions lead to a “binary outcome,” though they often lack logic.

Market volatility surged after Trump raised tariffs on China to 125% before having to abruptly pause most tariffs.

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    I am genuinely fucking baffled at how many people INSIST on treating orangeboi as a rational actor.

    He’s not. He never was. He wasn’t the first time around, either - it’s just that there were enough non-insane people around to stop him from doing what he’s doing now. And he’s doing it now because he got rid of all the non-insane people.

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      Yeah, I figured most of these people knew what they were doing when they supported Trump, but somehow after a decade of his bullshit (and really, all the decades before that too), they’re still surprised he’s a fraud?

      Or are they just angry that they weren’t in the pump and dump group chat that Trump is obviously running?

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        You don’t have to be smart when you’re born with a silver spoon like most of these fucks are.

        Notice that the actual first generation wealthy aren’t the vocally supportive ones. It’s the generationally wealthy, the ones that didn’t actually make the break into wealth, the ones lucky enough to be born into it.

        There’s a few exceptions, but they’re the ones advocating most vocally for the heinous shit, not just the money making shit.

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          thiel is , and craven is more like mcconnel, behind the scences evil.

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      Everyone with half a brain knows he’s dumber than rocks, they put him there to be the puppet-king who lifts restrictions and rules so business can literally rape us all to death. That goal is not going as smoothly as they imagined so now they’re pointing out the lack of clothes on the emperor.

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      Exactly.

      He’s not insane until rich dude’s yacht money and 401ks start tanking.

      Before that diagnosable criteria, he doesn’t meet the DSM V threshold for magalomanical genocidal fascist.

      ‘Results inconclusive’

      EDIT ‘magalomaniacal’ was a typo, but it fits, so it stays. Hopefully it’ll be in thr DSM 6.

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    Since 2015 people have been saying it. The best people like psychologists and his cousin like Mary and anyone else who actually spent time with him and survivors of abuse by similar personas and the survivors of his actual rapes and sexual violence. Many people, the best people, everyone was talking about it.

    The worst is yet to come case however low it gets, this little fuck will dig to go lower. Like a home invasion where he fucks your wife, head fucks your daughter, sodomizes your son, kills your dog, eats your cat, shits in fridge, etc. Things will keep getting worse cause he has zero self awareness.

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    Malignant narcissist with strong sociopathic tendencies. This has literally been known for years.

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    He’s certainly old enough to be significantly impacted by mental decline. Some have it happen much earlier than others.

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      He has been insane his entire life. He just is at a point now where it gets to unfold much more freely than it ever has, because he has been crowned de facto king of everything.

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    Depends on your perspective, I guess. If his objective was to manipulate the market more than at any other time in history while simultaneously destroying three decades of progress between two of the largest countries, and one of the largest federation of countries in the entire world then I would say he’s been outrageously successful.

    If you mean anything else, then no. He hasn’t been. But I can’t wait for the MAGA crew to get in here to tell me how tariffs are actually good and how they strengthen an industry which no longer exists in the country.

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    It’s not so much that he’s insane as it is that he knows so very, very little that he’s incapable of telling good advice from bad advice. He sees all advice as being of equal value, so he bases his decisions on how much the other person likes him.

    Example: All the tariff bullshit seems to have come from a single source, Peter Navarro. Whose main source for tariff effectiveness is a guy named “Ron Vara”, an anagram of “Navarro”.

    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64411833/maddow-origins-trump-international-tariff-idea/

    If Trump knew the first thing about, well, anything, he’d reject Navarro out of hand. He doesn’t.

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      Unfortunately Trump isn’t alone in that regard - quite a lot of people reach adulthood lacking critical thinking and the ability to actually discern what is or isn’t a reliable and useful source of information. Add to that the propaganda machine of media empires like Murdoch’s and it’s no wonder people buy Trump’s inane ramblings.