Trump posted AI-generated images to Truth Social on Sunday. He also claimed he made hundreds of billions of dollars on stocks. Neither statement requires the other to exist, but here we are.
Hundreds of billions. Not millions. Not a few billion. Hundreds of billions. That's more than Bezos has. More than Musk on a good day. Trump apparently crushed the market so hard he forgot to tell Forbes for thirty years.
The posts included sweeping unverified claims. Sweeping and unverified is the kind of phrasing journalists use when they mean "completely made up" but can't say it because lawyers exist. It's like calling a dumpster fire "an uncontrolled thermal event."
He posted AI images alongside these claims. The AI images have nothing to do with the stock claims. They're just there. Like a drunk guy at a party who keeps showing you pictures on his phone that have no connection to what he's talking about. You nod. You wait for it to end.
Retail traders will see this and think it's bullish. They'll buy calls on Monday morning because the President posted robot-generated pictures and said he's rich. Their accounts will be margin-called by Wednesday. They'll blame Jerome Powell.
The technical analysis here is straightforward. When the leader of the free world is posting AI slop on a Sunday and claiming imaginary stock gains, the VIX is underpriced. Every chart points to the same conclusion: log off.
Hundreds of billions of dollars. From stocks. The same guy who bankrupted a casino is now claiming he's the greatest investor alive, and he announced it between AI pictures nobody asked for. That's not a bull signal. That's not a bear signal. That's a "delete your brokerage app and take up woodworking" signal.
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