On Jan. 29, 2024, he took credit for the booming stock market, saying, "THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP." People are very much "Suuure, Jan" about it all. "Welcome to the upside down," one person said.

It felt much longer, but the U.S. stock market needed just a few weeks to roar all the way back to where it was on President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day.”

Six months ago almost to the day, Elon Musk, an influential adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump and the world’s richest person, warned that Trump, if returned to the White House by voters,