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.

  • Zink@programming.dev
    34·
    6 days ago

    Headlines like this, man. On one hand, good, I always like to see people thinking clearly and basing their thoughts on, you know, observations of the world.

    On the other hand, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? It took until April 2025 for them to fear that he’s not acting rationally but rather on ideology? And these are people who see themselves as fit to manage other people’s money!

  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 days ago

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

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • Critical_Thinker@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

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

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    13·
    6 days ago

    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.