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Not a "Winning Week" for The Oligarch Enablers [1]
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Date: 2025-04-05
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If there is any silver lining in the sham “reciprocal tariffs” Liberation Day — that Trump imposed on the global economy this week — this may be it:
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In the early hours of Saturday morning, Musk took to his social media platform X to launch an apparent attack at the president’s senior trade counselor, taking jabs at [Peter] Navarro under a video in which he explained the Trump administration’s logic in levying tariffs during a CNN appearance. “A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing. Results in the ego/brains>>1 problem,” Musk wrote in one post. (Navarro earned a PhD in economics from Harvard in the 1980s.) The Department of Government Efficiency head replied to another user’s comment on the video lauding Navarro’s explanation, writing of the economist: “He ain’t built shit.”
[...] www.politico.com — April 5, 2025
Is there Trouble in Trump-mania bubbling up in the Twitter-sphere?
What pray tell, triggered Trump’s hatchet-man to turn his bottomless anger towards one of the main instigators of the fake-math tariffs scam? Quite likely this “little” factoid had something to do with it:
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However, Thursday’s global stock markets fall saw the group’s combined wealth drop by $208bn, with an average decline of more than 3 per cent apiece, Bloomberg said.
[...] Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and Tesla owner Elon Musk saw $15.9bn and $11bn wiped from their fortunes respectively. Musk’s wealth has now dropped by $110bn this year , Bloomberg noted. Billionaires outside the US also saw portions of their wealth evaporate.
[...] www.independent.co.uk — April 4, 2025
-$16B — Hellvua reverse-payday, if we’ve ever seen one, eh?
Couldn’t have happened to a more mercurial domestic enemy sell-out of America. Especially, once all his DOGE damage is tallied.
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Karma — we all have to face it someday, if not sooner. MAGA-enablers doubly so.
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