Stocks jump 5% when Trump leaves the country
President Trump and the First Lady visit military personnel during an unannounced visit to Iraq on December 26, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Perhaps stung by criticism that he’s the first president since 2002 who didn’t visit the troops at Christmas, Trump snuck off to Iraq the day after.
The Dow average, getting wind he’s temporarily out of the country, jumped 1,086 points. Imagine what stocks might do if he left permanently.
Meanwhile, the daughters of a New York podiatrist who rented office space from Fred Trump say their late father told them Donald Trump didn’t have bone spurs and he wrote the diagnosis as a favor to his landlord in 1968 when poor kids were being drafted for Vietnam. Read story here.