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Published: March 8, 2020 at 11:50 p.m. ET
By Shawn Langlois
Is President Donald Trump fiddling while the world burns?
In another era, Roman emperor Nero, according to ancient tradition, climbed to the top of his city walls and, in a familiar phrase, fiddled as Rome burned. While there are all sorts of questions surrounding what actually went down, the adage that rose from the legend is typically used to criticize someone for doing something trivial in the midst of some sort of crisis.
So Trumps retweet of his social-media managers tweet showing him playing a fiddle couldnt be more timely, considering the continued spread of the coronavirus and the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -5.762% is poised for a nasty selloff on Monday.
Heres the retweet, in which Trump acknowledges that he is not sure exactly what Dan Scavino meant by nothing can stop whats coming:
Link to tweet
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stocks-plunge-coronavirus-spreads-and-trump-retweets-image-of-himself-playing-a-fiddle-with-an-ominous-message-2020-03-08?mod=home-page
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(24,745 posts)he reminds me of the queen that said let them eat cake............................