Billy Donovan is on the market…

A lifetime ago, I spent a lot of time with Biblical Greek. “Anti” as used in the NT more accurately means “in place of” or “substituted for” vs. “aggressively opposed to.” When a political leader places himself in the role of healer/sacrificial offering, that’s about as anti-Christ as it gets.

“We don’t like a pope who says it’s OK to have a nuclear weapon.” - Trump on Pope Leo “We fell in love.” - Trump on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, WHO DEFINITELY HAS A NUCLEAR WEAPON.

Just imagine if Ursula came over here to hold rallies for democrats.

You’re blocking the Strait?! No. , IM BLOCKING THE STRAIT!

He’s giving Stonehenge.

The last people he said had “no cards” were the Ukrainians.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Trump makes a deal…

S&P was only down 2/10ths of 1 percent 4 hours before his Armageddon deadline! TACO trade was already baked in but I think people are severely underestimating the downside risks.

Can’t wait for Kentucky’s own Scott Jennings to defend a threatened genocide on CNN tonight.

Can’t imagine being in uniform and seeing that the president is going to order me to destroy an “entire civilization…never to return again.”

Like clockwork, every Tuesday for three weeks:

Oooh, I think Reuters wins first place on sane-washing headline for the Easter tweet.

The sane-washing continues. While the AP article notes he send a tweet on Easter with “praise be to Allah,” the headline attracts no attention. His insane ramblings are just “fiery threats.”

Bruce Pearl gets paid a million bucks at least to say, I quote “This game is gonna come down to which team can make shots..”

*So far.

I’m at a @titusnation.bsky.social show and there’s a dude here sporting a new Kid Rock shirt…not sure he knows what he signed up for.

Stocks will inevitably rise on this news coupled with Trump tweets on Monday morning stating everything is going great.

I’d really rather him stay out of it, and I’m sure the pilot would agree.

She’s about pull down $1m+ / yr somewhere. Being in Trump purgatory was likely the only repercussion she’ll experience for her actions.

Hegseth has effectively ruptured the chain of command that our military depends on. Every soldier Joe knows they can break the rules, so long as it’s in favor of the Hegseth or Trump. Their commanders do not have the authority. Disgusting.

It may exist, but I’ve never heard a great argument for why Iran would behave differently than other nuclear powers. I do not want a world with more nuclear weapons. But why is Iran different than Pakistan or North Korea? Maybe Warren made comments about these countries that I’m unaware of.

The president days “we’re blasting Iran into the stone ages.” Markets go up on “hopes” the war is ending soon. I’m not sure how the supply and logistics shocks will resolve any time soon, regardless of what bafoonery he announces tonight.

“Pete Hegseth is so spectacularly stupid that he used his insider knowledge of a strike on Iran to attempt a multimillion-dollar trade that LOST money.”

“While Elon Musk’s DOGE operatives said they were rooting out federal waste, fraud and abuse, the DOJ declined over 900 cases of federal program or procurement fraud.”

Ya think? It was open 6 weeks ago without all of this.

oh, so Friday's jobs numbers are gonna be BAD bad

Stock futures rise again on reports of SOME of Trump’s words while willfully ignoring everything else. Iran strikes Kuwaiti oil tanker. Russian export facilities near the Baltic Sea are on fire. Trump says he’s ready to end the war WITHOUT reopening the Strait.

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

No snow> low lakes> no power turbines> no crops>high prices , wildfires, and on and on. Not looking great out west.

Let me write better questions: 1. Did the president consult the White House Military Office prior to disclosing what is certainly a multi-year, highly classified project? 2. Did the President botch the cover story for this project by inviting a law suit with hasty demolition? 1/x.

Markets are manic and the headlines irresponsible. Trump announced he was talking to people who aren’t currently running Iran and he unequivocally threatened war crimes and massive destruction of infrastructure.

He betrayed a highly classified program because people were making fun of his drawings. Even for the president who stole classified docs and put them next to his toilet, somehow this is still shocking.

10/10 headline: air strikes knocking out power are part of ramping up a “peace push.”

This is almost certainly what is happening.

Markets believe the Iranians more than the president of the United States. Let that sink in.

Can’t wait to see which LLC somehow owns the White House App.

Many dominoes have started to fall re: Iran’s strikes on Qatar. Urea shortage threatens food supplies. Helium shortage sets back chip manufacturing. Not to mention the wide ranging effects of LNG shortage.

I don’t know if reports that Trump is bored with the Iran war are true. But every time he has set a negotiating deadline with a foreign country he’s used that time to prepare and execute more military action. Thousands of troops are en route now and recent history suggests he will use them.

Markets have bet all week that Iran was misrepresenting the progress towards a deal. As more details have leaked (Pakistani intermediary), investors are less certain of any real progress.

Sending thousands of troops and the 82nd Airborne seems the opposite of deescalation.

Markets on track to lose yesterday’s gains, but don’t worry, Trump’s people all got paid from his market manipulation.

On trying to read news on the internet: “It’s like going to a restaurant, ordering a cheeseburger, and they send a marching band to your table to play trumpets right in your ear and squirt you with a water pistol while trying to sell you towels.”

The market barely recovered its losses from Friday….the trick works less every time. However, even if you know it’s BS, you also know many will see it as a buy signal. So you try to buy faster than everyone else.

The last two times he’s been in “talks” the result was 1) kidnap the president and 2) assassinate the supreme leader. Wall Street will fall for this and give him a green day in the markets though.

Alternatively: Fund TSA. Abolish ICE.

The inevitable harm to civilians is likely in excess of the military objective of opening the Strait. Trump is losing this war and his behavior will become even more erratic and risky every day. Also, I know the Situation Room can call the Iranians if you’d like their “attention to this matter.