On April 9, 2025, Trump posted 'THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT' roughly four hours before announcing the tariff pause
The S&P 500 closed up 9.5% — one of its strongest sessions in decades — after the afternoon announcement.
Trump told investors to buy on social media hours before his tariff pause rose stocks, raising questions about manipulation
PBS NewsHour / Associated Press · Secondary report
- Link
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-told-investors-to-buy-on-social-media-hours-before-his-tariff-pause-rose-stocks-raising-questions-about-manipulation
- Publication date
- Not captured — April 2025; exact date not captured in the research pass.
- Accessed
- 2026-07-21
- Last verified
- 2026-07-21
- Type
- news_report
- Authors
- Bernard Condon
- Excerpt used
“'THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,' he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social at 9:37 a.m. Less than four hours later, Trump announced a 90-day pause on nearly all his tariffs. Stocks soared on the news, closing up 9.5% by the end of trading.”
- Notes
- Also documents Trump Media's +22.67% close and the ~$415 million same-day rise in the value of Trump's 53% stake held in a trust controlled by Donald Trump Jr.
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Six senators formally asked the SEC to investigate the April 9 sequence; no investigation has been publicly confirmed
The April 10–11, 2025 letters are requests and allegations, not findings.