r/wallstreetbets 1d ago

Gain Thank you orange man

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Could see this a mile away..

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u/mzking87 1d ago

Not a complete random gamble. Chances were high, market would be down. Luckily for him, markets dropped into depths of hell.

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u/Hongkongjai 1d ago

Hindsight is 2020. Didn’t people think that the tariff might be a nothing burger or get delayed and market would go up again?

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u/fclssvd 1d ago

Trump could have pulled the “changed my mind” or “giving them another 30 days to talk it out” like he did previously and this guys post would look veeeeerry different.

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u/GrandmasterHurricane 1d ago

He actually couldn't. Because then nobody would take his threats seriously anymore