"The Dow just saw its worst day of trading since 1987, dropping nearly 13% with losses accelerating after President Trump acknowledged the possibility of a recession due to coronavirus "

Remember that it’s a feature of the Trump regime that other opportunism will operate in the background such as his attempts to personally profit from vaccine production. Remember lower Fed rates (now at 0%) also help his personal debt load.

He now is defaulting to nativism and xenophobia.

x Pres Trump changed his entire tone during today's WH briefing on coronavirus. He was somber. He said U.S. & world had no control over it. He said U.S. might see a recession.



Now, just 4 hrs later, he is back to leaning on cultural wars & calling coronavirus the "Chinese virus." https://t.co/LIvosx1oyH — Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 16, 2020

As we begin to self-isolate the nation, The Trump economy continues to crash with a number of measures being put in place, Ever data- conscious, Trump tries to shift responsibilities to the states. Trump has rated himself a “10” which is much like the box-office performance of that movie. The worse cases are peak case numbers of 500,000-700,000 to keep the health system from crashing

x The Dow fell ~3,000 points Monday, the largest one-day point drop of all time.



The reverberations of the coronavirus outbreak will be felt within every economic sector -- from investors to small businesses to low-wage workers.



HereÃ¢ÂÂs @jillonmoney https://t.co/W5mCK4rjoC pic.twitter.com/pw8iOXpHGT — CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) March 16, 2020

x The Dow fell 12.94% today.



The worst day in 1929 was a decline of 12.82%. — Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 16, 2020

x The Dow has evidently decided that time is not linear and reset itself to January 2017 pic.twitter.com/wqEaVjCWt7 — G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) March 16, 2020

x The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus. We will be stronger than ever before! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 16, 2020 x The first shipment of masks and coronavirus test kits to the US is taking off from Shanghai. All the best to our friends in America. Ã°ÂÂÂ pic.twitter.com/LTn26gvlOl Ã¢ÂÂ Jack Ma (@JackMa) March 16, 2020

x In presser, Trump says Ã¢ÂÂwe have a problem that a month ago nobody ever thought about.Ã¢ÂÂ



Trump was first briefed about coronavirus threat almost exactly two months ago today. pic.twitter.com/Im2Dee72TY — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) March 16, 2020

x I count 16 people here. https://t.co/f57Clh0AEn — Jim Roberts (@nycjim) March 16, 2020