President Donald Trump on Monday opted to spend Veterans Day at the White House, as he said the stock market is being hurt by the prospect of Democratic lawmakers harassing him.

TRAVEL LID CALLED EARLY

A so-called travel lid was called around 10 a.m. Eastern, meaning the president was not going to leave the White House. There were no public events scheduled for the president on the Veterans Day holiday.

That didn’t stop the president from tweeting about the stock market DJIA, -1.92% SPX, -2.37% , which was open on Monday and got hammered, to the tune of a 594-point loss for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

He said the prospect of what he called “presidential harassment” was rattling markets, Trump-speak for the prospect of various investigations into Trump and White House conduct more generally in the House, which in January will be controlled by the opposition Democratic Party after a resounding midterm swing.

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Stock-market analysts have attributed factors including the Fed’s interest-rate strategy and Trump’s own trade wars for the recent stock-market volatility VIX, +1.85% , rather than ongoing and prospective investigations into Trump’s conduct. The rising dollar DXY, +0.02% has been blamed for Monday’s downturn. The Dow’s down about 5% from its October peak.

It wasn’t the only asset market Trump commented on. Trump tweeted that Saudi Arabia, and OPEC, should not cut production as he called for lower oil prices US:CLZ8 , and approvingly cited an American Cable Association complaint that called for an investigation into the alleged anticompetitive conduct by Comcast CMCSA, -1.79% now that it has acquired NBC Universal.

Trump has frequently taken aim at the alleged anticompetitive practices of media companies whose stories paint him in an unflattering light, including CNN owner AT&T T, -2.24% , as well as AMZN, -4.12% whose CEO Jeff Bezos is owner of the Washington Post.

Trump also kept up pressure on Florida, saying that elections there should be called in favor of the Republican candidates for Senate and governor — Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis, respectively — as that state recounts votes. Trump asserted that ballots are “massively infected,” without providing evidence.

Among those who would be impacted by Trump’s call to end the counting of votes that weren’t tallied on the night of the election would be the military. Though ballots had to be postmarked by Nov. 6, overseas mail-in ballots are mandated to be counted under Florida law so long as they’re received by Nov. 16.

Florida’s secretary of state, Ken Detzner, on Saturday ordered recounts, with the margins in both races razor thin. Scott leads the current occupant of the Senate seat, Bill Nelson, by less than 0.25 percentage point, and DeSantis leads Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum by less than half a percentage point.

Nov. 15 is the deadline for each county to submit vote counts to the state.

U.S. NOT BEING TREATED FAIRLY, TRUMP SAYS

Also on Twitter, Trump blasted fellow world leaders after a ceremony commemorating World War I, saying the U.S. is not being treated fairly on the military or trade, references to the outsize U.S. contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as well as the persistent trade deficits the U.S. runs.

French President Emmanuel Macron took a jab at Trump and other nationalist leaders, calling the ideology “a betrayal of patriotism. By saying our interests first, who cares about the others, we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great and what is essential: its moral values.”

Macron also told a television interviewer that he preferred direct conversation rather “than making my diplomacy through tweets.”