weekend. joe, there may be some dictator envy going on here, but my base line after watching the back flips and the scowls and the threats over the last few days that then end up with the president sounding like xi is his best friend, it s the politics, stupid. trump is running for re-election. if he had not made a statement like this, the markets would have fallen out of bed again this morning. it s begun in asia already overnight and i think trump is primarily focused on keeping enough of his accounts seeming to be successful. that he just doesn t he wants to sound confrontational to get the last bit of the deal. but i think he was looking at a continuing market hemorrhage. he didn t like what he saw. the language that he used this