re: #380 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Also another President would not make such a personal issue about the performance of the Dow Jones and insist that he is the sole reason it had been increasing.

Trump’s ego is entirely bound to stock market performance, and watching the markets gyrate and go into freefall because Trump’s policies and statements are making the situation worse isn’t going to help Trump deal with the crisis.

Other presidents would warn that the markets might be volatile, but the interest of govt is keeping people safe. That would help stabilize things, but Trump’s more interested in making sure the markets rise since he’s bound himself to how the markets do as a proxy for how he does (only when the markets are good - it’s always someone else’s fault when the markets decline).