Mastodawn

I am hard pressed to think of any prior President who was solely responsible for causing such immediate unambiguous, and completely foreseeable economic pain. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/19/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Iran War Live Updates: As Oil and Gas Prices Soar, Trump Seeks to Reassure Americans

President Trump said he would do whatever was necessary to lower oil prices, and his Treasury secretary said the government might even take the paradoxical step of lifting sanctions on some Iranian oil.

The New York Times

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Sean Casten 1d ago

OPEC price shocks, 2008 crisis, COVID… in all those cases you can certainly make a compelling case that the POTUS should have seen it coming / had some agency. But this one is entirely voluntary and entirely self-inflicted.

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Sean Casten

Trump is like a kid who blows off his finger playing with fireworks. He either knew the risks going in and didn’t care, or was such a blathering idiot that the excitement of watching things go boom was as far as his brain could process. But in either case, he alone lit the fuse.

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Allan Chow 1d ago

@SeanCasten cept he's lighting the fuse and making everyone else hold it

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Alison Wilder 1d ago

@grumpasaurus exactly. And you know he pre-purchased "severed fingers" futures

Hmmm, is tRUMPy even that smart?