21 sceptical responses to Trump insisting his tariffs are like surgery that will cause the stock markets to ‘boom’
12.
Trump did exploratory surgery on us without anesthesia.
— Denison Barb (@DenisonBarbs) April 3, 2025
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Trump: the country is gonna boom.
The boom: pic.twitter.com/YojNP2yJhZ
— marco congiu (@marcocongiu) April 3, 2025
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Trump may not be a doctor, but if he’s going to use a surgery metaphor, he should get it right. When a patient crashes mid-operation, you don’t smile and say “it’s going very well”. You respond urgently. This market dip isn’t a side effect and ignoring it is reckless
— Ilyas Ibrahim Mohamed (@iiliyaa) April 3, 2025
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The economy is the patient, and Trump is the physician. No way the patient survives this.
— (@ChidiNwatu) April 3, 2025
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Trump: “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on and the surgeon accidentally removes their heart and replaces it with a pair of bollocks that they secure in the chest with a nail gun.” pic.twitter.com/LnzJJbZxwM
— Moog (@a_toots) April 3, 2025
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Wait you're telling me the inject bleach guy doesn't understand how numbers work?
— The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) (@theserfstv) April 4, 2025
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He means “kaboom”
– Dow Jones down 1639 points
– S&P 500 down 274 points
– Nasdaq down 1050 pointsThis is Trump running the country like his businesses. pic.twitter.com/okWIBGg4iH
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) April 4, 2025
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The country WAS booming until he came around again
— Jarett & Lilly vs EVERYTHING (@JLVsTW1) April 3, 2025
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The patient will soon be on life support.
— Outspoken™️ (@Out5p0ken) April 3, 2025
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Fucking idiot. pic.twitter.com/wekQAh7FVe
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 3, 2025
This is a more apt metaphor.
If trump's tariffs were a picture pic.twitter.com/MNIjIQCTMZ
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) April 3, 2025
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