{"id":319667,"date":"2017-07-31T17:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/president-trump-lauds-highest-stock-market-ever\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T17:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T16:47:21","slug":"president-trump-lauds-highest-stock-market-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/president-trump-lauds-highest-stock-market-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Lauds \u201cHighest Stock Market Ever\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNo WH chaos!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>July 31, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump took to Twitter Monday to share news of economic prosperity, lauding the \u201cbest economic numbers in years,\u201d and countering media claims that his administration is in \u2018chaos\u2019.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border secure, S.C.: No WH chaos!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/891998881009061888\">July 31, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump was referring to America\u2019s largest companies posting profit growth not seen for six years, in addition to The Dow Jones industrial average hitting a record high.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/07\/31\/us-stocks-earnings-season.html\">CNBC reports<\/a>, \u201cSeventy-three percent of the S&amp;P 500 companies that had reported as of Friday had topped estimates on both the top and bottom lines, according to data from FactSet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump seems to be hoping that the news will counter the perception being pushed by the media that the White House is in crisis as retired Gen. John Kelly, former Homeland Security secretary, takes over Monday from Reince Priebus, who was forced out.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump has consistently touted positive economic figures as being down to his \u2018America first\u2019 agenda, some have warned that it is a risky tactic that could back fire, if and when there is an economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian economist Peter Schiff has warned that Trump could be exploited by the deep state, namely the Federal Reserve, as a fall guy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SyQe3SHcBDo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Schiff and others have warned that if the market takes a downturn, the media could easily use Trump\u2019s own words against him and pin it on the President.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also hit out again at Republicans in Congress Monday over the fact that they have washed their hands of the failure to repeal and replace Obamacare.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If ObamaCare is hurting people, &amp; it is, why shouldn&#8217;t it hurt the insurance companies &amp; why should Congress not be paying what public pays?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/president-trump-lauds-highest-stock-market-ever.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo WH chaos!\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comJuly 31, 2017 President Trump took to Twitter Monday to share news of economic prosperity, lauding the \u201cbest economic numbers in years,\u201d and countering media claims that his administration is in \u2018chaos\u2019.\u00a0 Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border secure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}