{"id":907477,"date":"2026-11-06T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/907477\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:52:09","slug":"trump-blames-dumocrats-for-stock-market-slide-following-midterm-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/907477\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump blames &#8216;Dumocrats&#8217; for stock market slide following midterm results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND)  \u2014 President Trump pointed the finger at Democrats for a plunge in the stock market on Truth Social, saying the market &#8220;suffered&#8221; because of the midterm results following Tuesday. Trump told his followers, &#8220;Remember, it wasn&#8217;t Republicans, it was Dumocrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump added in his post, \u201cIt took so much work to get us to a level that no one has ever seen before,\u201d writing, \u201cYour 401(k)s have, therefore, dropped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nasdaq saw the steepest drop, falling by 5.5% to its lowest point on the market since April. The S&amp;P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 4.3% and 3.4%, respectively, with the former index falling to a four-month low.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made a follow-up post Thursday evening, placing the blame on Democrats again and saying, \u201cSo sad to see, you only have yourselves to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s estimated net worth has dropped $54 million Thursday as shares of Trump Media &amp; Technology Group tanked over 10% to an all-time low. The president\u2019s fortune has dropped over $200 million since Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>The president once again posted to social media, reinforcing the idea that Tuesday&#8217;s GOP losses were not connected to him, writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117566606657912243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">another follow-up post<\/a>, &#8220;I JUST WASN\u2019T ON THE BALLOT. IF I WERE, WE WOULD HAVE WON IN A LANDSLIDE! President DONALD J. TRUMP&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 President Trump pointed the finger at Democrats for a plunge in the stock market on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28,112],"class_list":["post-907477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}