Look I agree with you about investing in the market long term and hopefully I'll come out whole again, like I did after the Great Recession of 2008. My anger though goes to that the problem could of been finessed without all the attendant fireworks and shocking the financial markets.
Things were going along swimmingly, a slow but steady recovery since 2009, and then Trump throws in a Molotov cocktail to the proceedings. An unnecessary tax cut which drove the markets into hyper-drive, which sooner or later was going to sow the seeds of another recession anyway, confusion when he pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which only helped China, and ...
Too many times presidents get too much credit or too much blame for the economy, like NFL quarterbacks, but his constant meddling & rants are not helpful in the least. He's a trust fund baby without a clue about economics. Look at his business record before the presidency. I'll grant you he's great at creating TV spectacles with the Apprentice and selling steaks, etc.; a great snake oil salesman who's completely clueless in business.
How telling is it that he had to go to Deutsch Bank, troubled financially itself, for financing his ventures, since all the major US banks/institutions in the whole country and in his own hometown of New York City, like Citigroup, JP Morgan, Bank of America .. to name a few ... told him to take a hike.
