QuakerOats;1837263 wrote:Markets shrugging it off. Since the election we are running at a 60% annualized clip on the Dow.
Too much winning; that needs to slow down.
Ah yes "winning": 23 days in we have the following "wins":
- Top national security aide Michael Flynn, caught in a lie, forced to resign.
- Federal courts block Trump's executive order banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries.
- Trump's plan to immediately "repeal and replace" Obamacare is frozen by the reality that he never had actually had a health care plan to substitute.
- Mexico's president, insulted by Trump, cancels his state visit.
- A contentious call with the Prime Minister of Australia (an American ally) concludes when Trump abruptly ends the call.
- A tail-between-the-legs acceptance of America's longstanding "one China" policy, which he'd threatened to upend.
- An embarrassing display in which he discusses a surprise missile launch by North Korea in the public setting of his Mar-a-Lago club.
- Lies about voter fraud and a "massacre" that never happened have made the administration a laughingstock.
- Conway caught up in ethics investigation for comments about Ivanka's line of clothing
- Spent every weekend in Florida at his private club besides his first weekend
- Broke the record for EO's signed by a President in his first year already despite having majority rule in Congress
- Lowest approval rating in history for a newly elected President and dropping
- Gives a Fake News site Breitbart a seat in the Press room who lobs him softball questions about unfair media treatment
- Drops Hillary Clinton Investigation because it "doesn't play anymore" after the election
"Winning"