At about 8.30 am Trump posted on his Truth Social (DJT)platform:
**"THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT"**
To the unsuspecting eye, he simply signed that post with his initials. To those in the know, you know exactly what he was saying:
**"....TIME TO BUY DJT"**
And they did, DJT ran up about 9% in no time at all. And if you read posts on Truth Social they were all giddy that Trump gave them a head's up. Trump's stake in DJT went up by millions (he owns around 3B last I read). A 9% gain on 3 billion is a tidy sum. And that was in a matter of minutes. But he wasn't done.
A couple of hours later Trump announced a pause on tariffs, China being the exception and the market blew up (in the way we like).
**Right this moment DJT is up 20% so Trump has seen a $600,000,000 gain in a few hours.**
If this isn't market manipulation I don't know what is. He juiced the market before making any announcements, and he's now 600,000,000 richer for it.