President Trump is very happy to chat about his 50 percent approval rating. Some more important numbers? Not so much.
Despite the stock market absolutely plummeting over the past few days, Trump hasn't tweeted about stocks since Nov. 12, Bloomberg points out. Perhaps that's because Trump's uncertain trade reconciliation with China likely contributed to the plunge.
Still, Trump's silence doesn't change the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid nearly 800 points on Tuesday and another 700 Thursday morning, two of the largest one-day falls since October. On Oct. 16, Trump crowed that the stock market had risen 548 points that day. But he went silent during an Oct. 23 plunge, reemerging Oct. 30 to point out that "the stock market is up massively since the election." During a market surge between July and October, Trump tweeted at least 18 times about the uptick, touting the "all-time highs" and congratulating "all of you that have made a fortune in the markets."
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