has no one considered that it could be simple market manipulation? have Trump's friends and allies been buying stocks in the last week or so?

Did you see this? Unusually good timing… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-08/gutsy-tra...

to be fair, I also made quite a lot of profit in stocks in the last few days without any inside knowledge of the whitehouse. it was a fairly safe bet that these tariffs were not going to last forever, and even if they were, there'd be reprieves

Easier to just promote a shitcoin like he did already.

Why not both?