Trump says he hasn’t seen today’s stock plunge
U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attend a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2025.
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Asked for his reaction to today’s market sell-off, Trump says, “I haven’t seen it.”
“I’ve been here for two and a half hours,” Trump tells a reporter at his Cabinet meeting.
Prompted to weigh in, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that as tariff negotiations develop, “we will end up in a place of great certainty over the next 90 days.”
Bessent also touts today’s better-than-expected inflation reading, as well as a “successful bond market.”
“So I don’t see…