This is the Tom Hartman program.

Tom Hartman here with you.

There's a couple of things that I wanted to just lay on the table and have a conversation with you about the stock market collapse this morning. I think it was 7% was when they hit

the circuit breakers on the S&P and paused trading for 15 minutes.

It's down around 5% right now,

which is 1,350 points.

You know, basically the market never should have got it as high as it was. It got as high as it was because the

Fed was engaging in stimulative activity during a time that we weren't in a

recession and they've been doing that for three four years now and it's just I mean if you look at

20 and 30 year pictures of the stock market graphs of the stock market you see

how unusual this market is right now.

Something I've been warning about for some time,

but there's also, I mean, this morning,

Donald Trump, honest to God,

tweeted a picture of himself playing a violin.

Or he retweeted it.

It was Dan Scavino who tweeted it.

He retweeted it.

Saying something like, I don't know what this means, but I think it's something good or

words to that effect.

He honest to God tweeted a picture of himself playing the violin.

I mean, it's like, this morning he's trying to tell us in the most obvious way possible that he doesn't give a damn if America

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