At 9:30 a.m. on April 9, Donald Trump hit “post.”
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT”
The markets hadn’t opened for long. The S&P 500 was already twitchy. Then four hours later, Trump walked into the press room and hit the brakes on his own trade war, announcing a 90-day freeze on nearly all new tariffs. Stocks exploded. Tech boomed. His own media company—trading under the ticker “DJT”—jumped 22%.
The timing was perfect. Too perfect.
Trump had spent the previous week talking tough on imports. On April 2, he rolled out his “Liberation Day” tariff plan, sparking a market sell-off. Apple, Nvidia, and Amazon all dropped hard. By April 4, the tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 11%. Then came the whiplash.
Some, apparently, saw it coming.
Marjorie Taylor Greene did what seasoned traders call “buying the blood.” Between April 3 and 4, while other investors were panicking, she bought into the wreckage—up to $285,000 worth of shares in Apple, Amazon, Tesla, RH, Palantir, and more. RH alone would spike 33% days later.
And that wasn’t the end of it. On April 8 and the morning of April 9, Greene made 21 more trades, purchasing up to $315,000 in stock. She doubled down on the same companies Trump’s about-face would soon rescue.
“She bought the losers. Then Trump flipped the switch. And the losers became gold.”
– Bryan Metzger, Business Insider
When the news hit that afternoon, Apple shot up 15%. Amazon climbed 12%. Nvidia surged 14%. By the end of the day, Greene was sitting on five- and six-figure paper gains.