Trump's Latest Tariff Threats Instantly Get Backed Down

🇺🇸 When Donald Trump suggested renewed friction with China’s President Xi Friday, social media chatter about the topic unsurprisingly spiked across X, Reddit, Telegram, and others. In the chart below:

🟦 Social volume of Trump related to Xi, China, tariffs

🟥 Social dominance (share of all crypto topics) related to Xi, China, tariffs

😱 As the week came to an end, the crowd saw Trump's Truth Social post as a sign of fresh economic tension, sparking a sharp wave of retail selloffs in both crypto and stock markets. Bitcoin dropped all the way to ~$107K, as fears of renewed tariffs sent risk assets into a brief tailspin at the highest rate since the initial announcements in early April. Then, when Trump confirmed 100$BTC dropped all the way to ~$103K.

🗣️ As the news of the U.S. & China tariffs became official, online discussion reached one of its highest points in recent months. The red line, showing social dominance, revealed that a growing share of crypto discussions centered on Trump’s trade stance. This surge in attention coincided with retail panic and widespread liquidations (estimated at over $19B on Friday alone).

😌 Yesterday, Trump backtracked and suggested tariffs were being lifted again, and Bitcoin has now swiftly recovered above $115K. This has become an all too common pattern in 2025. Retail gets shaken out by fear, then jump back in after the fear-inducing topic is confirmed to have been overblown or "all for nothing".

🧐 This likely is not the last of foreign trade policy (particularly the US and its relationship with other countries) impacts equities and cryptocurrencies. Emotional trading tied to political news continues to dominate short-term market behavior, arguably more than we have ever seen in crypto's 17+ year history.

📊 Since crypto is sentiment-driven, traders collectively decide what news should impact their confidence in markets. And there is enough evidence to show that Trump's tariffs have instant impacts on reversals whenever a new development unfolds.

🔖 Bookmark this chart and see how the topic may continue to mark buy & sell signals!

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