Date: April 9th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Orange business firm
What distinguishes today’s stock market rally from all previous bear market rallies in the history of US financial markets is that the price moves are being driven entirely by the economically illiterate proclamations of a mad orange king drunk with power.
It creates a situation where Trump can massively enrich his donors with a few simple steps (which look exactly like what he did today):
[11am] privately inform donors you'll be announcing the cancellation of tariffs at 3pm
[11:01am] donors buy stonks
[2pm] tweet "GREAT TIME TO BUY", transforming donor trades from "insider trading crimes" to "trades based on public information"
[2:01pm] retail MAGA apes & other trump team members (republican congress, officials, etc) "buy the dip"
[3pm] announce the suspension of tariffs
[3:01pm] whole world apes in to “buy the dip”, mkt goes way up, insiders' profit massively from their trades.
we already know that trump thinks nothing of abusing presidential powers in exchange for cash. Just last week he pardoned a bunch of his donors (e.g. Nikola Motors scammer Trevor Milton) and dropped charges against all his new crypto business partners (e.g. Justin Sun, Arthur Hayes, Uniswap). tipping off his supporters with market moving information so they can enrich themselves trading on that info (AKA “insider trading”) is form of corruption pretty similar to the pardons: it’s abuse of presidential power designed to reward insiders and punish outsiders that’s done in exchange for money (“donations”, legal settlements, TrumpCoin manipulation, etc).
perhaps trump’s donors were so loud in his ear complaining about all the money they just lost that trump decided to shut them up w/an opportunity to profit on history's largest (not an exaggeration!) insider trading opportunity. or consider a scenario where the “TeslaTakedown” has put Elon Musk financially on the ropes and badly in need of cash. with just one hot tip and a few tweets Trump could provide Elon an instant and massive cash windfall, most of it from retail apes catching falling knives.
I'll also mention that while government officials have to disclose their public stock trades (and even if they don’t insider trading is kind of hard to hide because trading creates a paper trail that can be followed by the IRS etc) any insider trading of crypto (which also popped 10% on trump's announcement) does not have to be disclosed (though it can be disclosed “voluntarily”).
if Trump insiders made a fortune going 50x long bitcoin on Chinese offshore exchanges 10 minutes before trump's big reveal and then decide not to "voluntarily" report those trades the public will probably never find out about it. Chinese crypto exchanges don’t keep good records and they definitely don't answer american subpoenas.
https://substack.com/@cryptadamus/note/c-107516927
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708424&forum_id=2).#48833304)