This is more an example of advanced senility dementia that spouts more and more absurd out of his mouth, rather than any imminent declaration that any bon seller is a commie traitor insurgent. Though central banks around the world might want to consider this out of control spiral, and sell before they are threatened not to be allowed to sell.
Still this is just the dotard mixing up his talking points, although technically he could claim winning this war. The bond market no longer has an air force or navy, and its missile production facillities are down at least 90%.
Epstein files? Can the military be used to get those?
Pretty sure the military is used to protect those in the file.
Mango Mussolini despises the military, but wants to use them for his power grab. If it really happens, the American better hope for cooler heads within the military that fully understand their oath is to protect US Constitution and not a rotting bag of orange shit.
Nah people like there cushy jobs
more and more moronic with each passing day
Sending Navy Seals to kidnap Jamie Diamon and taking him to Gitmo would be incredibly based.
This statement is really weird, even for Trump because in the question asked immediately prior he clearly understands the question about whether he directed Bessant to intervene in the bond market stating.
“Not at all. No, he’s a very capable man. He wanted to do it. He’s very good at it. He is a good touch. Very good natural touch for the bonds and interest.”
Right? He understands ehats beung spoken about, or his answer at least makes it sound like he does.
Then the reporter mentions that yields came back up and asks if Trump was going to direct Bessant to do “some other type of intervention”. At this point Trump suggests military intervention.
He goes from “Bond market intervention” -> “Interest rates” (reasonable) to “Intervention” -> “I might direct the military to attack the bond market” (deranged) in, like 10 seconds. Is he just playing word association? Is he fucking with the reporter?
I disagree with your assessment that he understands the first question. His answer is just your typical responsibility deflection (“He wanted to do it”) combined with vague praise (“He is a good touch”). It’s akin to Maurice’s generic answers about football in IT Crowd (“Did you see that ludicrous display last night”). The only thing Trump DOES understand is using the military for his problems, which is why his answers ultimately land there.
This is my read on it too. He has no idea whether we want bond yields high or low or what. He actually feels a little bit attacked by the question because he doesn’t understand it. At first he tries to deflect it, because if the question will just go away, he doesn’t have to care about it anymore. But then there’s a follow-up. This is a challenge that isn’t immediately going away. That makes him angry. He still doesn’t know what’s going on, but now he has to care about that. So he’s gonna make a vague threat about being in control of the military. That should do the trick. That makes the reporters’ eyes get wide every time, and he can just walk away at that point and be guaranteed to get a lot of press attention. It’s a win-win.
You have to understand that he doesn’t see these interviews as means of communication. He sees them as power struggles. Any communication that occurs is entirely incidental.
Someone else offered the darker explanation that he’s threatening to use the military against countries like Canada who decide to reduce their investment in US bonds. I don’t know whether that’s seeing meaning where there isn’t any, but here in Canada we haven’t forgotten that Trump keeps saying he wants to destroy our country one way or another. But overall I think it’s more likely he’s just failing to understand the question then forgetting what he’s supposed to be talking about.
Yeah, he definitely seems untethered enough that any kind of threat seems risky to entirely dismiss. I don’t think he’s gonna do anything with the actual military against Canada, though. That’s expensive, and his puppeteers don’t see a big profit in it. He’s kind of already acting as an occupying force within the US, and his hold on power here is tenuous; and war with Canada, who can actually hurt Americans on their home soil, would be even more unpopular than his various overseas entanglements.
What the dark magic,
Keeps this fucking ghoul going?
They say victims’ blood
Trump is getting onboard with the Occupy Wall Street movement?
Maybe use the military for corruption and sexual exploitation of minors?
Well, it is a day ending in “Y”.
MAC flights to new islands?
We’re so fucked
Same guy who wanted to nuke hurricanes.
Dipshit is so delusional he thinks he can send the military after bond traders.
I laughed about your comment, paused, and then started getting nervous.
I decided to take a quick glance at the article and came across this:
President Donald Trump suggested Friday he could use the military to stage an “intervention” on bond markets in a confusing response to a reporter asking about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s efforts to bring down soaring yields.
Much to my dismay, you weren’t exaggerating.
Just for the record: in the comments section of a post about a news article in a news community, you described a story about how you read what the lead says when you took a quick glance at the article.
We’re talking about an “article” that is shown as a “2 minute read”, and takes about 30 seconds to read.
Fun fact: the demographic in which Trump gained the most before the 2024 election was “people who don’t read news daily”.
Wait can we?
This needs to stop. Why are we letting a dipshit pedophile destroy our country?
Hey now, I can actually get behind the idea of invading wallstreet. Lets let the man cook.
Oh good point!
No," the president replied. “Not at all. No, he’s a very capable man. He wanted to do it. He’s very good at it. He is a good touch. Very good natural touch for the bonds and interest. And he did that? Yeah.”
The reporter followed up, noting that “yields have come back up since then.”
She then asked: “Have you talked to him about another type of intervention? Is that something he will be doing?”
“We have many types of intervention. That’s one,” Trump said, adding: “The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.”
No," the president replied. “Not at all. No, he’s a very capable man. He wanted to do it. He’s very good at it. He is a good touch. Very good natural touch for the bonds and interest. And he did that? Yeah.”
The reporter followed up, noting that “yields have come back up since then.”
Faced with the need to think, Trump’s failing brain overloads and resets, wiping the context.
She then asked: “Have you talked to him about another type of intervention? Is that something he will be doing?”
Trump recognizes the word “intervention”. They must be talking about Iran, or Venezuela, or Nambia or Aberbaijan! I know this one!
“We have many types of intervention."
But I really can’t remember which one she was talking about. Just wing it. No one will know. Try to sound tough and commanding.
"That’s one,” Trump said (she has to have mentioned one, after all), adding: “The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.”
