“‘I’ll tell you what’s not going to happen is, people are not going to raise [money] to build manufacturing in America,’ [Ken Griffin] said, adding, ‘because with the policy volatility, you actually undermine the very goal you’re trying to achieve.’”
Musk and Zuckerberg are building data centers for AI and destroying the climate in Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana. Trump is in charge of those regulations. There are none. They are destroying the water and the air. Maybe he can decide who is worthy of a government brain chip.
Us has become poorer while the richest has become richer. That’s their goal the whole time.
It should read: “less rich,” rather than “poorer.”
For investments you need stability the same goes for allies and right now America has neither of these things.
A Trump donor and he never saw this coming? 🤦 Tough.
Silver lining
I do believe the point is chaos. Chavez in Venezuela, Mugabe in Zimbabwe destroyed their national economies to gain power. Hungary and Türkiye did the same but slowly and not as totally yet. See NYT 4/20 article by Francisco Rodriguez.
This!
Griffin was a HUGE supporter of this new guy in the WH!
To be fair, the America he is talking about is the billionaire class. The rest of us are now much poorer
Trump doesn’t know it yet, but what he’s doing is now called ‘Russhitificatio’, and the aim of it is to reduce the U.S. to the level of Russia, both economically & Militarily, so it is no longer a threat, or even a rival to Putin. And the ‘best’ bit is, that everyone
*’Russhitification’
involved gets to become similarly hyper-wealthy, if they aren’t already …
This was Putin's plan all along. Trump is the useful idiot who's doing his bidding.
Guess what "people" are so sick of funding (our taxes) 2 Football stad , baseball parks, even the Olympics! Funding the rich to make them even more money💰! States and Towns unless you r getting 50% of profits then they can borrow from their friends like we have too! Why can't Olympic ♻️stadiums
Most of these people did not expect the Democrats to lose the Senate and the House. They have always depended on one chamber of Congress to hold the line on extremism from the Republican side. This has been how America existed since 1948 with a couple of exceptions.
Also, he’s a very stupid man
Only when the rich start taking a hit to their bottom line will they demand action against this fascist regime. It’s coming & it’s going to be epic.
Griffin: trump donor, enabler extraordinaire. Shove your loss porn.
Glad too see someone is telling the people the truth. Americans are 20% poorer due to Trump’s polices. Less money for retirement, less money for last days life care for parents, less money for weather disasters and less money for everyday needs as prices are increasing. Trump did that in <100 days.
Ken isn’t getting a return on his $100M investment (donation) in the GOP ? Pity
Great yet?
Yep its now official, America has become the world's first #Dumbocracy. Well done!👏🏽.👏🏽.👏🏽.
Oh my... he's seen the errors of his ways! He was so mad in Chicago that we elected a Democratic mayor, that he pulled his company out of here.
Poor guy is only worth 28 billion now. 😞
Trump/Putin ARE achieving their goal of ruining America. It's just that the media fails to understand that America failing means Russia winning. All of Trump's acts make sense once you understand the Trump/Putin dynamic.
As a major donor to the GOP, he is part of the problem
A great example: www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...
Other car manufacturers should follow this example. Gut the US auto industries.
Ken Griffin is part of the problem, so I don’t give a 💩what this lecherous ghoul thinks
www.molsonhart.com/blog/america...
A nation's competitiveness in an industry depends on the capacity of the industry to innovate and upgrade. Requires skilled labor, investments in education, technology, and infrastructure. hbr.org/1990/03/the-...
“[Success] always involves investments in skill and knowledge, as well as in physical assets and brand reputations.”
I guess he didn't get the call pre market jump.
And what are you rich MFers doing about it?
Without massive governmental subsidies and investment, Americans will be unable to afford the products that they build.
Previous administrations strove for stability. The Trump regime craves chaos. Fomenting chaos lays the groundwork for authoritarian control. People, exhausted by upheaval, seek simple answers. Demean education, dehumanize others, & destabilize social & political norms add violence and stir.
We’re gonna hafta bail em out again…
He's a lifelong loser. He knows it and has always hired down and expected devotion. He hires losers so he has complete control over their actions. They act as he wishes and succeed only if they anticipate his next whim. He is unable to change. His staff has no talent to change.
Well duh
I guess “poorer” is a relative term
Oil industry collapsing under fear of recession.
Note the money is what finally got this guy to speak out. Not the children dying of preventable diseases, not the innocent being targeted by Donny's immigration gestapo, not aid to the sick and starving being cut and left to rot. For him, it was the money that mattered, and nothing else.
Ken Griffin is an evil hedge fund money maker who destroys companies for profit. He rigs the stock market on a regular basis. He should be in jail. He makes Enron look mild.
Yeah. Hard to not use expletives about this guy. Did he not listen to a single thing Trump said on the campaign trail? Or, is he A-OK with all the racism and elimination of health services and bullying of law firms--just not THE TARIFFS?
Right?!?
Idiots
No shit Sherlock
Here's another self-defeating internal contradiction in the Trump tariff policy: insofar as it succeeds in reshoring US manufacturing — a stated goal — tariff revenues will evaporate. If we also abolish the income tax, eventually the government will have no revenue at all.
Your local warlord will protect you... for 50% of everything you earn.
I’m so tired of hearing about all these manufacturing jobs coming back 😴 Coming from a family that most worked and retired from manufacturing… They are Not coming back!!!! Who’s going to work at them?!? This younger generation 🥱 Stop with the BS👎🏻
Traditionally, mfrs relied on immigrants to fill in the workforce. The Dotard has taken that out of the equation.
Absolutely, he does not understand what immigrants do or have done for this country.He is so full of bullshit ….all day, everyday!
This is the Republicans fault. This is on them. Democrats fix economies, Republicans break them.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Gross
My son was telling his friends this yesterday via a discord group call yesterday, he’s in high school and apparently more versed in macroeconomics than the folks in the White House
You know how those who regretted buying a Cybertruck only to find out that that they can't re-sell it, and are not even allowed to trade it in for another Tesla? Ken Griffin just bought a metaphorical Cybertruck.
Nobody in America truly wants large scale manufacturing to return here. Slaving away on monotonous assembly lines for low pay and even lower appreciation is just not the American dream. Trump and the GOP are selling a lie.
Seems to me the responsible way would be to analyze which companies would be best suited to return. Then negotiate with the company on what they would need to return. Not blow up the economy with tactics guaranteed to fail.
An accurate analysis of current circumstances from oligarch Griffin
There is no profit in bringing back manufacturing of old products. We need to develop new products and new technologies., cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/04/when...
He has no clue He has no class He has no care for you He has and is taking your 💰 He has lost allies He has 34 felon He has spent 25% golfing (so far) He has a black suit! He has NK calling him a dotard He has a Russian name Krasnov He has raped He has a small scratch on his 👂🫰🤏 HE HAS TO GO !
The people have power. Our words have power. Our rallies have power. Our wallets and purses have power.
bsky.app/profile/noac...
My IRA dipped more than that. And I'm not rich.
Where was this scion of the financial world when voters were forming their opinions? Oh yeah, he was shilling for DeSantis and Trump 🤬🤬
Fuck him he was a large part of the problem. Let him face the same thing we are all facing. I wish him what I have. Every bit the same as what I have. Not one penny, more or less.
Exactly!!
And Ken Griffin supported who??? Yeah…
They do know since they are mega donors they could flex that at congressional gop no?
Suckers !
Major idiot puts dick in mashed potatoes, now has 20% more potatoes on dick.
When are we mir mortals going to wake up to the fact that the Gods have gone rogue and it’s time to topple Olympia.
Putin is making him destroy everything. This isn’t up to Trump. Vlad has the Epstein evidence.
Exactly!
Meanwhile .... bsky.app/profile/thet...
You wanted this so here it is .
Griffin helped get us here. He supported this, and he wanted this. He just thought he wouldn’t be one of the people losing money on this madness.
These people were so fixated and agreed that they missed the big picture. The big picture is that.🦧 is not only stupid. He’s a psychopath. Now, I hope you all can fix it since you all broke it.
Fixated on greed!
Oh and who the heck caused that? Might be the dufus that The Republicans supported and are now afraid of
if tRumpey and evil buddies wanted to crash the USA, they'd do what they're doing
That’s what he gets for putting his money where his mouth is, kissing Trump’s Ass.
Thanks a lot for donating to the destruction of our country.
Another random guy who doesn't recognize economic genius when he sees it😜
Don't cry now. You knew what he was. Oh, but those tax cuts!
Umm, duh?!
Isn’t Griffin proud? He’s a loudmouthed Republican who first backed DeSantis & then Orange.
Greedy assholes like him created this.
Crazy doesn’t sell outside the Fox “news” bubble.
I think that the only question about the Trump (error) era that we can ask now is - will all democracy's horses and all democracy's men be able to put America back together again?
Might this be a teachable moment? Same greedy businesses willing to plug their noses on EVERYTHING, including democracy. Because all they wanted were tax cuts...Oops
I am compelled to point out that, as an Illinoisan, I'm fully aware that Ken Griffin is a complete idiot. Still, I suspect he's right about this.
In other words they should have supported Biden and then Harris over Trump. What did think they were going to get when they supported a dunce of a convicted felon whose rightful place in the history books is alongside other traitors such as Benedict Arnold and Quisling.
Such superbrains. American meritocracy at work!
It has nothing to do with education or meritocracy. The reality is that a lot of people fell for Trump's propaganda/lies that he would wave a magic wand and make all the bad things go away.
Those very same people are also Stupid.
With Trump he promised easy fixes to all these problems, and people have fallen for the image he has sold them over the years of being a great and competent businessman. So when he sold them that lie they were ready to eat up hook, line, and sinker. 2/2
You’re far too kind to these people. I give folks a PASS for voting for Trump in 2016. I do not give them a PASS in the 2020, or 2024, Elections. By 2024, our nation had been dealing with Trump on center stage for nearly 10 years. There’s simply no excuse for this depth of IGNORANCE & IDIOCY …
in modern day America! We’re not talking Rocket Science here, nor anything close to it. No, we’re talking possessing Basic Common Sense & Good Judgment. I fully understand all the psychology y Trump/GOP/Right Wing Media of the constant repetition of lies, disinformation & conspiracy theories …
repeated over & over & over. Psychological tests have long showed this is the most effective form of Brainwashing. Even taking this into account, the average non-college educated American should still have enough Basic Common Sense & Judgment to overcome this during a 10 year period of time…
I know several persons who voted for Trump. The reasons they all gave me for doing so is that he’s a White successful male & a good businessman. Trouble is history shows us businessmen make the worst POTUS’ & Political leaders. This is b/c Govt doesn’t exist to make profit, nor to balance the …
budget each fiscal year. To the contrary, Govt exists for We the People, helping to keep us safe, healthy, etc. It’s perfectly fine to deficit spend running a Govt, providing it is done reasonably & responsibly. The folks I know who voted for Trump are not otherwise Ignorant. Some are even …
What they did is stupid, but the reality is human psychology falls prey to such things all the time. Many people bought SUV's because they imagined themselves in the commercials going off-roading when in reality they just drove them to the grocery store. 1/x
Oh, it most certainly has to do with education.
Nope. If you think it does all you need to do is to take a look at Germany in 1932. It had a well educated populace, was a global leader in science and engineering, and the people still went down the road of putting Hitler into power.
I suspect the situation was similar to today. The majority of people who want what is happening did not attend college. They voted for the guy who told them what they wanted to hear, that gave them an enemy to hate, who took advantage of their morality and faith and twisted it.
In short, they did not have the critical thinking skills to know when they were being lied to. So, yeah, I think that's an education problem.
What Trump did to win the people that gave him the election is to become an avatar whereby he held in their minds whatever their political views happened. There is no amount of facts that can penetrate such a barrier. 2/2
This isn't about critical thinking skills. It's about human psychology whereby all these bad things are happening, and this man promises to wave a magic wand to make them all go away. 1/x
It isn't so much about college because I find plenty of college educated people who love Trump. The reality is that his base is a cult who hates brown people, and he didn't twist their faith or morality as they had already done so themselves for decades. He just tapped into that reality.
The populace didn't put Hitler in power. The Reichstag president did.
It's called a coalition government, and people thought they would be able to control Hitler. Hitler had power because of his party had the most seats in the Reichstag. Hindenburg's mistake is that he should have invited Hitler to his home, and shot him.
Instead, Hitler murdered 96 members of the Reichstag who opposed him.
Instead, Hitler murdered millions and plunged the world into a nightmare.
The topic was about education and the way Hitler came to power. The fact is that educated people make better choices.
People voted for the felon because he gave permission to be fascist, violent... and they loved the idea of violence.
For his cult yes. For Trump supporters it is about owning the libs. If the libs support the Constitution get rid of it. If the libs love guns get rid of them. This has been something in the Republican party since Obama to the point that it was parodied below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46k...
Ken Griffin and the business bros knew what they were doing when they voted to crash the economy for the sake of tax cuts. Ken Griffin was part of the propaganda and lies.
They fell for the propaganda and lies. They didn't believe he was really going to do what he said he was going to do. They believed what they wanted to believe, and no amount of facts was going to penetrate and convince them otherwise.
You’re making the self-proclaimed “masters of the universe” out to have no agency. They’re complicit in spinning the propaganda, even if some of them fooled themselves.
They do have agency, and their agency was that they didn't want to listen to the facts when Harris and Trump told them what Trump was going to do. That was a choice they made, and the propaganda reinforced it.
That’s true of the majority of GOP voters. The Ken Griffins of the world went to business media & to their inner circles to sell the propaganda that they helped create. They thought they could rise above the chaos. Some of those guys are likely making bank on insider trading nonsense going on now.
Net/net, my point is that Ken Griffin owns responsibility for ravaging the US economy, ruining US alliances, and raining hell on law-abiding citizens and residents. He’s not a victim, he’s a perpetrator.
Tl;dr: fuck Ken Griffin
They didn’t and still don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes.
Anyone invested in any of Ken Griffins funds should sue him. He huge campaign contributions helped fund Trump's campaign and contributed to these policies and financial decline. They should sue to hold Griffin accountable for their losses.
The king of pay for order flow says what?
20pct poorer... no 💩 !
FU
This guy is such a dick
They’ll have to raise taxes eventually.
Huh……….
It's not just that universal tariffs are insane; Trump is also a dumb ass weak-willed narcissist who does whatever he's told. He adds and drops tariffs on a whim, undermining his agenda. No one believes they'll stick.
Apple moving iPhone production from China to Vietnam is a one finger salute to Felon 47.
Gee, I’m neither an economist or billionaire businessman, but even I figured that out BEFORE ELECTION DAY. I was smart enough not to spend $100M getting us into this situation too so there’s that…
Actions have consequences but if we were to do this all over again these guys would still Vote for the shitgibbon and his team of ghouls..
Only a dunce couldn’t see this happen! https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/politics/approval-rating-trump-100-days?cid=ios_app
Bingo! This is EXACTLY right! Trump has not a clue.
They thought they would get rich off us through their brainless leech.
FAFO
And their excuses for not voting for Harris run from hurt fee fees to the potential for tax cuts and deregulation that would most likely be short-lived. Hmmm ... That doesn't seem like good long-term biz strategy.
Could the real reason be they didn't want to be seen supporting Harris and were convinced they could weather the Trump storm? 🤷♂️
Not one single European manufacturer is going to build anything in America when 'Dear Leader' is changing his mind on a three day cycle. You will either have much more expensive and mostly lower quality domestic production - or empty shelves/warehouses/ showrooms. There is no Plan B.
Not only is this on you, buddy [GOP donor], but the consequences everyone will suffer as a result of your irresponsibility and greed will be on you as well. You will personally suffer more than economic losses. "When will they ever learn ... when will they ever learn."
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
You seem to have lost despot donnie's ear, Ken! Maybe you did not contribute enough money to his campaign to retain a seat at the table. Now your voice is just like the rest of us meer mortals unfortunately!
Yes, we know. Kind of everyone knows with even just a bit of knowledge of markets and investment. So why can’t this farce not be stopped right now? UK fired Truss after 43 days with £ billions of damage. What are you waiting for 🇺🇸?
This is why the Westminster system of government is superior. A whack-a-doodle Prime minister can be out on their ear in a day.
#ImpeachRemove
And, who, in America, is going to harvest coffee, cocoa, bananas? Need I go on?
And just what the hell did these Republican donors expect a serial bankrupt, narcissistic moron would produce -- economic nirvana???
Good. Tell all the fascist-racist little oligarchs and millionaires that thought it was a great idea that all the little people should continue to pay for their insatiable greed & depravity - great job MF’ers.
More people like him need to speak up
“You bought it, he broke it”
Bang up job, Ken. It turns out, the only thing a criminal is good at running is a criminal enterprise.
flash boy building a a tower.
Sadly, MAGA learned all they know about business by watching The Apprentice. 🤷🏻♂️
Why would anyone trust Trump? He flits about from policy idea to policy idea and gives no evidence of consistency for anything. The only consistency in his policies is greed for himself and chaos for everyone else.
That’s a concern of mine. Let’s say Dems win big in 2026 and 2028 and promise to restore our role on the world stage, other countries might say, “We’re still not dealing with you because you’ll likely elect Don Jr for President in 2032.”
That's why that new majority House/Senate/POTUS would need to codify in law all the assumptions, loopholes and gentlemen's agreement that Trump has used. Starting with not allowing convicted criminals from being President. But yes, we could have blown this big time 😕
Well that’s just great. We members of the Jones generation graduated into Nixon’s stagflation and now we’ll sunset into Trump’s economic trauma. www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-stag...
Infuriating
That’s me
In related news: the Emperor has no clothes. Film at 11. On second thought, scrap the film. 🇨🇦
A game show host, he's a freaking game show host. Whoever thought he could be successful should go back to elementary school.
If only someone had told him this was going to happen
Trump just cares about the "insider trading: opportunities his "volatility" brings
Don't forget the adulation and boot licking from wealthy and powerful people. That's actually more valuable to him than any of the money.
the penguins of Herd and McDonald Islands stood firm and did not negotiate with Trump
He’s another billionaire enabler. He only cares about money and that’s the only reason he is speaking up. He’s a smart guy. He knows what he voted for.
Only 20%
"Major GOP Donor" should be a synonym for selfish rich people who buy the government they want. They can all eff allllll the way off!
Trump is nothing more than a useful idiot!
Whoever didn’t see this coming should not be in a position of power.
Racist and misogynistic people used the economy as a reason to vote for Trump over Harris. Project 2025, a clear danger, was center stage and they still fell for it.
And all we have to do to fix this is to get rid of Trump, and I no longer care how.
Yeah. Tariffs will do that.
FAFO
Too bad there isn't a lemon law on presidents...
Putting serious money at risk is the major part of corporate executives' repsonsibilities. But deciding to put multi-millions of new capital at this much risk, in a jurisdiction that is now this utterly opaque and unstable, would rightly get them fired.
