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Want Evidence Trump Is Causing Economic Chaos?

Stock Market guru Jim Cramer of CNBC says Trump is making investors give up.

John Dean
3 min readApr 2, 2025

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There is so much to condemn Donald Trump for these days that it’s difficult to know where to start. He has alienated American allies, aggressively pursued retribution against his enemies, appointed a bunch of nincompoops to this cabinet, and is dismantling the federal government. Of course, one of his worst actions is his obsession with tariffs. It is shaking the U.S. and world economies.

Last night, I was reading the news and came across a comment made by Jim Cramer, best known for “Mad Money” and considered an expert on the stock market. Cramer believes Trump is an existential threat to the American economy. (That may be an overstatement, but not by much.)

Here’s what Cramer said yesterday on CNBC:

We have declining inflation, except the president’s putting on inflationary tariffs.

We have incredibly low unemployment, except where it’s caused by the Trump administration.

We have a market that was doing extremely well last year, until the Trump Administration sowed the level of uncertainty that I can’t recall any time since — Are you ready…

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