TRUMP’S TWEETS, TARIFFS AND TRILLIONS MADE: A MARKET MANIPULATION MASTERCLASS?
By George Calder on June 18, 2025
A Presidency That Moves The Markets
Since returning to office in January 2025, President Donald Trump’s social media posts and tariff decisions have coincided with historic swings in the stock market – swings worth trillions of dollars. Having already drawn scrutiny from world leaders, lawmakers, economists, businesses and traders alike, the sheer magnitude and timing of these movements raise the question: are these mere coincidences, or are we witnessing a calculated manipulation of the financial markets
Key Dates Timeline
April 2 – “Liberation Day” tariffs announced; global markets lose $6 trillion in 48 hours
April 9 – Trump posts “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!”; markets rebound sharply
May 8 – Trump encourages investors to buy stocks before announcing tariff rollbacks on May 12
June 5 – Musk criticizes Trump bill; feud escalates; Tesla drops 25% in two days
June 11 – Musk publicly apologizes to Trump after deleted Epstein tweet; Tesla begins recovery
April 2, 2025: $6 Trillion lost
Dubbed “Liberation Day”, April 2 marked a dramatic reshaping of US trade policy and a sharp decline in global markets. President Trump announced a blanket 10% duty on imports from almost all countries, with additional “reciprocal” tariffs on specific states – China’s original 34% surcharge and the EU’s 20% being the most notable.
Described by Trump as “economic self-defense”, these tariffs intended to increase domestic productivity in the US, and shrink trade deficits with other nations. Global markets recoiled, but the White House framed it as a bold move toward economic nationalism.
In just 48 hours, over $6 trillion was lost from global equity markets. The S&P 500 dropped 6%, marking its steepest two-day decline since March 2020, and the Dow Jones plunged more than 4,000 points.
The biggest losers were the technology, semiconductors, and automotive sectors, with safe-haven assets like gold soaring, signalling investor panic.
April 9, 2025: The Trillion Dollar Truth
Posts on Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, are known as “Truths”, and at 9:37am ET, the President declared “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!”.
Hours later, all tariffs – that the White House had previously announced would affect trade with most countries in the world, and sent the stock market into a sharp decline – were paused for 90 days. Instantly, the S&P 500 index (SPY) alone gained $1.4 trillion in total market capitalization by the end of the day, with a 9.5% surge happening in the final trading hours, marking the biggest one-day gain since the financial crisis in 2008.
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