Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
President Trump & the Media: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly 5-3-25
Sat, 03 May 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker reflects on the S&P 500’s nine-day winning streak – its longest in 20 years – and critiques how media coverage of Trump’s early term contrasts with the recent market recovery.
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Chapter 2: How is the S&P 500 performing under President Trump?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. So here's the notion today. President Trump, the media, the good, the bad, the ugly. So here's what I find fascinating. I saw a piece today that says the S&P 500 is on pace for its longest winning streak in 20 years as it's about nine days in a row of being up. And so I find that fascinating. That's probably the good.
Chapter 3: What are the media's reactions to Trump's presidency?
Chapter 4: What contrasts exist between media coverage and market recovery?
And I don't know whether they're called the media or President Trump, the bad and the ugly. But all I can tell you is watching the media reports on over the last several days in two weeks, the first 100 days of President Trump, as though the world was ending, as though this was the worst thing that's ever happened, is really a remarkable thing to watch.
Because it's amazing how quiet the media gets when we're now seeing this nine days in a row of the S&P surging and getting back to almost even year to date. So I don't know if you call it the good, the bad, the ugly. I don't know who's going to be irritated by this podcast. But I do find it to be fascinating how polarizing the media is either on the left or on the right.
How horrible these first 100 days were. You would have thought we had started a nuclear war the way the media was talking. And at the end of the day, now that the markets have recovered some, the media seems wildly quiet. I apologize for offending people on the left or the right, people to the right of me, people to the left of me. Let them be.
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