Trump Blames Democrats for Stock Market Plunge

On November 6, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on social media blaming the Democratic Party for that day’s sharp stock market decline. He claimed the election results triggered “one of the worst trading days in history,” causing a steep pullback from recent all-time highs and significantly eroding the value of many Americans’ 401(k) retirement accounts. Trump stressed that this situation was “absolutely not caused by Republicans,” but rather by the “Dumocrats”—his derogatory term for Democrats. He urged the public “not to panic” and declared that the U.S. would “become stronger again, somehow, very quickly,” once again invoking his signature slogan: “Make America Great Again.”