Former President Donald Trump put his focus on the rout impacting markets around the globe on Monday, with several public statements linking it to a global panic over the possibility that his contender in the November elections, Kamala Harris, makes it to the White House. However, he has not mentioned a more local issue affecting his home state of Florida: Hurricane Debby's landfall and expected flooding.
Trump has made several posts on his social media platform, Truth Social, echoing a statement from "the legendary Howard Lutnick" about Monday's plunge being a "preview of the world markets without Donald J. Trump in the White House."
"None of this happens if Trump is in. Kamala and the markets don't go together. She'll destroy the markets. She's in power now and look at what is happening. One week of the fake media saying better polls and you get a market crash," the quote added.
About an hour later, Trump said "of course there is a massive market downturn." "Kamala is even worse than Crooked Joe. Markets will NEVER accept the Radical Left Lunatic that DESTROYED San Francisco and California, as a whole. Next move, THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024! You can't play games with MARKETS. KAMALA CRASH!!!"
And he completed his message in all caps: VOTERS HAVE A CHOICE — TRUMP PROSPERITY, OR THE KAMALA CRASH & GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024, NOT TO MENTION THE PROBABILITY OF WORLD WAR lll IF THESE VERY STUPID PEOPLE REMAIN IN OFFICE. REMEMBER, TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!"
It is unclear if Trump is currently at his estate in Mar-a-Lago, in South Florida. His next scheduled appearance is in Montana on Friday, where he is set to hold a rally and deliver remarks in a dinner. He will travel to Colorado the next day for a fundraiser.
Trump's estate will be largely spared from the worst of Hurricane Debby, which made landfall on Monday and is set to cause "catastrophic flooding" as it moves inland, according to the National Hurricane Center.
In an advisory published on Monday, the center said there is a "danger of life-threatening storm surge along portions of the Gulf Coast of Florida, with 6 to 10 feet of inundation above ground level expected somewhere between Ochlockonee River to Yankeetown."
Florida's Big Bend region is receiving the hurricane's initial impact, with a warning already in effect. "Tropical storm conditions are expected to continue for several more hours farther south within the Tropical Storm Warning area along Florida's west coast, including the Tampa Bay area."
"We are looking at potentially really, really significant flooding that will happen, particularly in north-central Florida," Governor Ron DeSantis, who has declared a state of emergency, said at briefing on the storm on Sunday.
Debby grew rapidly into a Category 1 storm, the lowest on a five-stage scale, thanks to unusually warm temperatures at the Gulf of Mexico.
Florida officials said some areas of the state had already received 12 inches of rain, while the maximum sustained winds were estimated at around 80 mph at landfall.
Other areas are expecting up to 18 inches of rain, as well as 20 to 30 inches in coastal Georgia and South Carolina. Several universities cancelled classes for Monday as they brace for the bulk of the storm's impact.
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