Does Trump really care about Wall Street? By Hal M. Brown
When it comes right down to, it all I think all Trump wants from Wall Street, aside from billionaires groveling before him, is a ticker tape parade with millions cheering him.
I know people who are looking at their investment portfolio online several times a week, if not every day. I won’t even open the envelope from my financial firm. I know that when it comes to my stock portfolio all I need to know is that, as the saying goes, I am worth less today than I was before Trump was elected.
I read articles like these in a Google News search for Wall Street Trump
Does Trump care about news like this being on TV’s like mine this morning?
In order to answer my question about whether or not Trump really cares about Wall Street and the precipitous decline of the stock market, one has to look at his personality.
Everything Trump does is based on his quest to gratify personal needs rather than to do what’s best for the country. I’ve written enough about his psychopathology and malignant narcissism since 2017, so I won’t get into this.
It is obviously best for the country when the stock market thrives. Unfortunately, in the United States what’s best for corporations is also the best for the billionaire class. This is the way U.S. capitalism works. It will continue to work this way as long as the tax system allows the mega-rich to get away not paying their fair share to support government programs which help ordinary citizens.
This leads me to wonder whether Trump gives a shit about the Stock Market. When it comes right down to, it all I think all Trump wants from Wall Street is the following:
For it to do well only so he can brag about it because of his great policies…
billionaires like Jeff Bezos groveling before him…
and a ticker tape parade with millions of his worhipers cheering for him.
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