Dow Jones is down 5,300 from inauguration day.
As a point of perspective, the Dow was around 7,800 when Obama was sworn in. Trump has lost almost the entire 2009 value of the Dow.
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S&P is down even more YTD. I am not figuring it out from inauguration day. DJ is only down 9.62% so far. S&P is down 13.53% YTD
6,049.24 on 1/21, closed at 5,074.08 on Friday.
Down 975.16 since Trump took office. In 2009, the day Obama was sworn in, it was $849.64.
Trump has lost 115% of the entire S&P 500 value from 2009.
(Note, Trump's numbers count from 1/21 not 1/20 because the market was closed 1/20 for MLK Day.)
Edit As long as we're doing numbers...
NASDAQ - 1/21 - 19,756.78, last Friday 15,587.79. Dropped 4,168.99.
1/20/2009 - $1,440.86
Trump has lost 289% of the entire NASDAQ value from when Obama was sworn in.
And we thought BUSH was a disaster for driving the markets down to those levels.
Now if only the senate could read, maybe we would have a chance at impeachment #3.
In spite of this fact, the tariffs still probably aren't a good idea, but it is at least a little bit encouraging to see the shitheads that prop up this organization are suffering