Over the last year, while President Joe Biden was in office, Trump took credit for stock market rallies as a vote of confidence in his electoral prospects. When the market dipped, he blamed Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. And he predicted that if Democrats won the 2024 presidential election, the stock market would have crashed.

New York Times reporter and Trump biographer Maggie Haberman commented on why President Trump is moving forward with tariff plans despite panic in the stock market, Monday night on CNN: KAITLAN COLLINS,

Donald Trump never told voters there might be a recession on the road to his new “golden age.” The president’s refusal – twice – to rule out an economic contraction this year set off a stock market plunge on Monday that hammered Americans’ retirement accounts.