Dave Portnoy celebrates wild profits as stock market surges after Donald Trump's shock trade deal with China

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By DANIEL MATTHEWS

Published: 11:00 EDT, 12 May 2025 | Updated: 11:05 EDT, 12 May 2025

Dave Portnoy danced and boasted of 'seven-figure profits' connected Monday aft the stock market surged successful the aftermath of Donald Trump's tariff woody with China.

The US economy has experienced a turbulent mates of months aft the president announced sweeping tariffs connected countries including China, Canada and Mexico.

Chinese president Xi Jinping warned that determination would beryllium 'no winners' in a commercialized warfare that rapidly sent shockwaves done the planetary economy.

But, pursuing talks successful Switzerland, the 2 superpowers person agreed to importantly chopped import tariffs imposed connected each other.

After the quality broke, Barstool Sports laminitis Portnoy predicted much banal marketplace madness and connected Monday, helium said: 'I told you!'

Portnoy said: 'People emotion clipping me. They person those clips erstwhile the banal marketplace was successful the vessel and I was crying: "Oh I mislaid $6million (or) 7million..."

Dave Portnoy danced and boasted of 'seven-figure profits' aft the banal marketplace surged 

It was announced connected Sunday that 'substantial progress' had been made successful pivotal commercialized talks

Chinese president, Xi Jinping, had warned that determination would beryllium 'no winners' successful a commercialized war

'People who don't similar Trump and maine clipped it to say: "Even Dave has turned!" (But) they didn't play the full clip... I said: "I spot Trump, I'm going to springiness Trump time, I don't deliberation he's going to vessel the banal market... I'm going to buy, buy, buy.'

The Barstool Sports laminitis said helium stuck to his connection and is present 'sitting connected 7 figures of profit.' He added: 'If you listened to this amusement and you travel what I do, you're swimming successful piles of green.'

Portnoy, whose nett worthy is reported to beryllium much than $100million, mislaid millions after Trump primitively announced the tariffs.

'This is simply a determination that 1 feline made that crashed the full banal market,' helium fumed. 'That's wherefore we're calling it Orange Monday... the banal marketplace is getting crushed. I've mislaid 20 percent of my nett worth.'

The Barstool laminitis threw his value down Trump up of past year's predetermination but past appeared to crook connected the president.

'You deliberation if I’m losing money, if the banal marketplace is tanking that lone affects affluent people?' helium continued. 'We’re astir apt affected the least.

'Yeah I’m losing $20m, but I inactive person plentifulness of money… it each shakes down. Look astatine Barstool Sports, alright? This system tanks.

'Our advertisers, who bash concern overseas and merchantability products and advertise with us. They merchantability little products. 

'It gets much expensive. What’s the archetypal happening they cut? Ad budgets. Ad budgets that we get.

'Suddenly we’re not getting arsenic overmuch money,' helium went on, juxtaposing the 2 concern models to marque his point. 'Suddenly I person to occurrence Nate [a Barstool staffer] and laic radical off.'

But connected Sunday, US commercialized typical Jamieson Greer said: 'Just retrieve wherefore we're present successful the archetypal place.' 

Greer explained: 'The United States has a monolithic $1.2m commercialized deficit, truthful the president declared a nationalist exigency and imposed tariffs, and we're assured that the woody we struck with our Chinese partners volition assistance america to enactment toward resolving that emergency.'

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