Trump's $415 Million Inside Trade: The Greatest Pump & Dump in History

The tariff turnaround has all the hallmarks of another Donald Trump specialty: the pump and dump.

"Seven counts. 2,500 coins. Nobody's ever heard of it. It's gotta be a record. Amazing," Trump said, caught on a hot mic in the Rose Garden.

“Yes, sir. You got the market seeing your brilliance," one of Trump's advisors replied.

This Rose Garden conversation, broadcast on live TV at 2:59 p.m. yesterday, captures Trump celebrating a market surge he helped engineer less than two hours earlier. The sequence of events that unfolded yesterday reveals a carefully orchestrated financial windfall.

Art of the Steal

At 9:37 AM, Trump posted on Truth Social: "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT." Note those three letters – DJT. Not just his initials, but the stock ticker symbol for his Trump Media & Technology Group.