As the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 1,000 points in the first moments of trading on Monday and as China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 8.5 percent, Donald Trump kept his eye on self-promotion. The 2016 GOP presidential candidate weighed in on the market's downward spiral on Twitter by first identifying what he saw as the problem — "poor planning and allowing China and Asia to dictate the agenda" — followed by a quick solution to the market crash that he warns "could get very messy!"
Turns out, the answer to the downward spiral in the stock markets isn't all that different from fixing the immigration system or fighting ISIS. All we really need to do, says The Donald, is "Vote Trump."
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