When the jackass says he's bent on destroying Iran, the stock market drops on fears of rising oil prices. He, his GOP goons in Congress, his MAGA cronies and his family rush to buy stocks.
Two days later, the jackass says he's having "good productive negotiations" with Iran. The stock market rebounds and the Trump MAGA Mafia-GOP conglomerate sells the stocks they bought two days earlier, making millions in profit.
This is in essence what is exclusively on the jackass's mind: Money. FOR THE DEMENTED CRIMINAL, THE PRESIDENCY IS A MONEY-MAKING CASH MACHINE WHILE BULLSHITTING HIS MAGA MORONS ABOUT MAKING AMERICA GREAT.
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Iran Denies ‘Productive’ Talks Hyped By Trump—Accuses Him Of Manipulating Markets
Topline
After President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. and Iran held “productive” conversations that could lead to a “complete and total resolution” to their war—lowering oil prices and boosting markets—Iranian officials denied anything ever happened, claiming Trump was trying to reduce energy prices and “buy time.”
Key Facts
In a post on Truth Social, the president wrote that “VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS REGARDING A COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION OF OUR HOSTILITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST” had taken place over the previous two days.
Trump said he ordered the Pentagon to postpone military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days.
Trump’s post did not specify who was negotiating on Iran’s behalf, and it is not immediately clear whether Israel is part of the negotiations.
Within hours, Iran’s foreign ministry denied having held talks with the U.S., claiming Trump’s remarks were “part of efforts to reduce energy prices and buy time to implement his military plans,” the Associated Press reported, citing an Iranian state-owned outlet.
“While there have been initiatives by regional countries to de-escalate tensions, Iran’s response has been clear: It did not start the war and all such requests should be directed to Washington,” the ministry said.
How Did Trump’s Post Impact Markets?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which soared in premarket trading by more than 1,100 points, rose 1.7% after markets opened Monday morning. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq jumped 1.5% and 1.6%, respectively, with Monday’s positive swing marking a rebound for each index after they posted a fourth-straight losing week. The Dow and Nasdaq last week approached correction territory, or when the market is down 10% from its recent high, with the Dow down 8.6% and the Nasdaq down 8.7%. Brent Crude, the international oil benchmark, dropped by nearly 7% to below $100 after rising as high as $112 last week. The U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate similarly fell by 7% to just under $91, after earlier falling below $85.
What Do We Know About Trump’s Earlier Ultimatum?
In a Truth Social post on Saturday evening, Trump wrote that if Iran does not “FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT,” the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, the U.S. military would “hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” The deadline was set to expire on Monday evening and Iran had warned it would retaliate against such an attack by targeting the energy and water desalination facilities of neighboring Gulf countries aligned with the U.S.
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NEW YORK TIMES ANALYSIS:
The New York Times editorial board delivered a damning assessment of Donald Trump’s false claims about the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran in a weekend opinion piece — and warned how they could ultimately backfire on him.
Trump’s “stream of falsehoods” about the conflict is nothing new, the board said. “Lying is standard behavior for Mr. Trump, of course,” it wrote, noting just some of his many, many falsehoods over the years. (Trump made more than 30,000 misleading or untruthful claims during his first term, per a Washington Post analysis).
“Yet lying about war is uniquely corrosive,” the Times’ board continued, arguing it “creates a culture in which deadly mistakes and even war crimes can become more common” and ultimately “undermines American values and interests.”
The board acknowledged “there is a reasonable debate to have about the wisdom of this war,” which has so far killed 13 U.S. service members, given what it described as Iran’s “murderous” government and its threats to people at home and abroad.
But Trump is “not making” that case, said the Times, and is just lying “about the reasons for the war and about its progress, in an apparent attempt to disguise his poor planning and the war’s questionable basis.”
Trump and MAGA world have given various different answers on various different aspects of the war, such as what its actual objectives are, how long it will last and more.
The Times’ board also pointed to past conflicts — including the Vietnam War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq — where presidents “learned that falsehoods can boomerang on the leaders who tell them.”
“Whatever short-term gain Mr. Trump thinks he is getting by lying about the war in Iran is far exceeded by the cost, for him, the country and the world,” it concluded.
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Why Trump’s ‘Psychosis’ Has Insiders Terrified
Laura Esposito, The Daily Beast Podcast
Sun, March 22, 2026
The war in Iran has ripple effects across the globe. But its next steps come down to the nonsensical whims of just one man, warned veteran political analyst David Rothkopf.
“This is so different from any other war that we have ever seen, because it is being driven by the psychosis of one individual,” Rothkopf told host Joanna Coles on The Daily Beast Podcast.
The Daily Beast columnist warned that President Donald Trump has surrounded himself with yes-men, giving him the freedom to act as erratically as he pleases amid the surprise war with Iran he began in coordination with Israel on Feb. 28.
“Trump doesn’t listen to advisers. As he says, he relies on his gut,” Rothkopf said. The president, 79, has repeatedly reversed course as his war with Iran enters its fourth week. On Saturday, Trump claimed he had wiped Iran “off the map” in a social media post, then threatened new military strikes just an hour later.
“We don’t have people around the president who will say no. And even if we did, he wouldn’t listen to that,” the foreign policy analyst continued.
“And everybody in Washington knows that. All the guardrails, all the processes, all the systems that have evolved over time to avoid just this kind of catastrophe have been shut down, broken down, run around, and we’re left with a decaying, elderly, ignorant, paranoid, vainglorious, deluded commander in chief making it up as he goes along.”
Trump and Israel’s war on Iran has killed 13 U.S. service members at the time of publication, and the ongoing economic and political fallout is becoming harder for the administration to ignore.
Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz—a waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil passes—has rattled markets and pushed up prices. Meanwhile, NATO allies have largely avoided stepping in—despite Trump’s constant barrage of public threats against them.
“[The] Trump administration’s foreign policy is sort of following the footsteps of a drunk out of the bar,” Rothkopf, the CEO and editor-in-chief of The DSR Network, said. “We go to the left, we go to the right, we’re doing this, we’re doing that. I’m on my knees. I’m standing up, you know, shouting at the heavens.”
To make matters worse, Rothkopf pointed to reports that the State Department fired its oil and gas experts just six months before Trump’s attacks—officials who would be central to the current conflict.
He also cited reporting that FBI Director Kash Patel’s revenge-fueled firing spree resulted in several key specialists on the threat posed by Iran losing their jobs just days before the war.
Patel’s revenge strike on the FBI decimated the bureau’s global espionage unit known as CI-12. / MediaNews Group/Inland Valley Da / MediaNews Group via Getty Images
Patel terminated 12 FBI employees after discovering he and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’ phones had been under subpoena as part of a probe into the illegal storage of documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property.
“The problem is there has been no planning,” Rothkopf said. “There is no sense of consequences.”
Trump has also repeatedly changed his mind about what constitutes victory over Iran. In the early days of the assault, the president demanded the country’s “unconditional surrender.” Since then, Trump has shifted his stance to preventing nuclear weapons and has signaled that he may “wind down” operations.
“There’s no metric by which you can assess what’s going on in this misbegotten war and which is the success,” Rothkopf said. “There’s none.”
The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.
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