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US President Donald Trump has been keeping a low profile since failing to get himself re-elected, but he held a very brief and rather strange press conference this past week to crow about the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) piercing the 30,000 mark.
"We've never broken 30,000. And that's despite everything that's taken place with the pandemic," he said, during the media outing that lasted barely a minute.
"That's a sacred number: 30,000. Nobody thought they'd ever see it," he added.
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