Author: TechFlow
From Wall Street to blockchain, "rat warehouse" is not a new term.
It's just that in the past, the rats still had some shame in their hearts, but now they are completely exposed and don't pretend anymore.
In early 2025, Trump issued Meme coins and manipulated the market in the name of "encrypted strategic reserves". Now, Trump is wielding the tariff stick, playing Sichuan Opera, changing his face repeatedly, and pushing this conspiracy of power and capital to a historic high.
When the president becomes a trader and supervision becomes a fig leaf, the world has become an arena for giant rat warehouses - and you and I are all prey in the game.
"Because over 75 countries have contacted the United States and expressed their willingness to negotiate, and have not retaliated against the United States in any way, shape or form at my strong suggestion, I have authorized a 90-day suspension and a significant reduction in reciprocal tariffs on other countries to 10% during this period, effective immediately."
During the U.S. stock market, Trump's social media speech caused the previously uneasy three major U.S. stock indexes to reverse and surge across the board.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged by more than 2,900 points, or 7.87%, its biggest gain since March 25, 2020; the S&P 500 surged by 9.52%, its biggest gain since October 29, 2008; and the Nasdaq surged by 12.16%, its second-largest single-day gain in history.
The “Big Seven” tech stocks in the U.S. surged across the board, with their total market value increasing by $1.85 trillion (about 13.4 trillion yuan) in just one day, and all this happened within a few hours.
Interestingly, Trump himself posted on his social media platform Truth Social shortly after the U.S. stock market opened: “Now is a great time to buy.” He also encouraged fans to “calm down” and predicted that “everything will work out.”
These remarks seemed to be encouragement to the market at the time, but combined with everything that happened later, people can't help but have more associations.
According to market data disclosed by Unusual Whales, before Trump issued this "buy" suggestion, traders had already opened a large number of $QQQ, $TQQQ and $SPY call options. What's even more shocking is that at the critical moment before the announcement of the tariff suspension, someone opened $SPY 509 call options expiring on the same day, and these options soared by an astonishing 2100% in just one hour!
All trading volume was newly opened on the same day, which was particularly unusual when the market volatility index (IVR) was as high as 82 and the implied volatility (IV) was extremely high. Traders seemed to have a clear idea of the market direction and made firm directional bets.
Using net premium data tracking, it can be clearly seen that after these opening operations, more investors followed suit and loaded up with call options, betting on a market reversal. All this points to a disturbing conclusion: someone knew about this major policy shift in advance.
On X, many people expressed dissatisfaction but were helpless.
"Trump uses his presidency to make millions of dollars for his family and friends."
"The market is like a casino for connections, and we are just fools at the gambling table."
What's more ironic is that as early as a few days ago, CNBC reported that Trump was considering suspending tariffs on some countries for 90 days. At that time, White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt quickly came out to refute the rumor, calling it "fake news."
A few days later, this "rumor" turned into a "far-ahead prophecy."
This is not the first time Trump has manipulated the financial market this year. He has played with the cryptocurrency circle twice before.
On March 2, 2025, Trump announced on social media that he would establish a "strategic reserve of cryptocurrency", which directly promoted the surge in tokens such as XRP, SOL, and ADA.
Just when everyone was curious why BTC and ETH were not mentioned, Trump once again posted on the community media, saying "It is obvious that BTC and ETH, as well as other valuable cryptocurrencies, will be at the core of the reserve. I also like Bitcoin and Ethereum."
Ethereum rose in response.
However, these moves and actions are more like the masterpieces of Trump's sons. The second son Eric Trump applauded on social media:
I like the genius of announcing strategic reserves on Sundays, when traditional markets are closed and Wall Street is asleep. Retail investors win for the first time. Traditional finance had better catch up, otherwise it will soon become extinct. The world no longer runs from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday.
In response to this "calling order", the crypto industry booed and questioned whether members of the Trump family may have participated in a large number of insider trading behaviors.
In January 2025, during the issuance of Trump Meme Coin, a large number of insider trading was also hidden.
The data analysis platform Bubblemaps pointed out that a certain address starting with 6QSc2 had received funds 4 hours before the release of the TRUMP token, and spent $1 million to purchase 5.9 million TRUMP in the first minute of the token release.
The address then transferred all the TRUMP to the ff.sol address, and then distributed it to 10 addresses, selling it in batches and cashing out tens of millions of dollars.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of insider trading. The Trump family has publicly cashed out hundreds of millions of dollars through Meme coins such as $TRUMP. In the crypto market, which lacks supervision, Trump is even more unscrupulous.
For those who are familiar with Trump, this may not be surprising, because he was also questioned for using insider information he created to profit in his previous term.
In 2019, the American magazine Vanity Fair published an exclusive report saying that in Trump's series of seemingly chaotic Sino-US tariff statements, there was a very profitable secret of insider trading.
Take June 28 as an example. In the last 30 minutes of trading on that day, someone made a big long position in S&P futures contracts.
Afterwards, Trump announced in Osaka, Japan that China and the United States would resume negotiations. Stimulated by the good news, US stocks rose sharply. This mysterious fund that made a big long position made a profit of nearly $1.8 billion in a week.
All crows are black. Not only Trump, but most other White House officials are also masters of the financial market.
For example, former Democratic Speaker Pelosi has the reputation of "Capitol Hill Stock God" and has many proud achievements:
In January 2021, before the Biden administration announced subsidies for electric vehicles, Pelosi's husband Paul bought Tesla stock worth millions of dollars;
In March 2021, Microsoft received a $22 billion order for AR combat helmets from the U.S. Department of Defense. Before the stock price skyrocketed, Paul bought Microsoft stock at a low price;
In July 2021, amid an antitrust investigation into large U.S. technology companies, Paul went long on Google, which was ultimately unaffected, with its stock price soaring and Paul making a fortune;
In July 2022, the U.S. Congress voted on a chip manufacturing subsidy bill that aims to provide $520 million to the U.S. chip industry. According to OpenSecrets, in 2021, the Pelosi couple's return on investment was as high as 56.15%. In 2024, Pelosi's investment portfolio earned 70.9%, far exceeding the 25% increase in the S&P 500 index, and also exceeding the "stock god" Buffett (return rate 26%), Wall Street "Actuary King" David Shaw, "Father of Quantitative Investment" Jim Simons and other investment celebrities.
Why do we hate rat trading so much?
Because it is the bullying of ordinary people who abide by the rules by the privileged class.
In the financial market, ordinary investors study diligently and take risks, and what they pursue is nothing more than: fairness, fairness and fairness.
When the head of a country can manipulate the market through policy announcements at will and let his cronies make profits in advance, this is not just a matter of insider trading, but a complete distortion of the market mechanism by power.
Most of the traditional insider trading relies on insider information to make profits, and they act in a secretive manner, at least they know that their behavior is dishonorable.
Now, Trump not only directly creates insider information, but also publicizes it, without any concealment, showing an attitude of "what can you do to me".
In this era deeply kidnapped by power and capital, if even the most basic market fairness cannot be guaranteed, then the so-called globalization and free market economy are nothing more than a one-man show of the power elites.
Perhaps, this is the ultimate form of contemporary capitalism-power directly manipulates the market, the elite class openly reaps global wealth, and most people can only act as ignorant pawns in this huge insider trading game
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