--- title: Donald Trump On Global Markets: China’s ‘Going To Bring Us Down’ description: Presidential hopeful Donald Trump weighs in on today's stock market crisis, China. canonical: https://time.com/4008453/donald-trump-stocks-markets-china/ author: Ben Geier/Fortune article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-24T17:29:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:23:36.785Z article:section: Business og:title: Donald Trump Has Something to Say About the Market’s Plunge og:description: He thinks China’s ‘going to bring us down.’ og:url: https://time.com/4008453/donald-trump-stocks-markets-china/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ac169cc5973b4cd/6988609a0a4a2209249c5c37/gettyimages-481219104.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Has Something to Say About the Market’s Plunge twitter:description: He thinks China’s ‘going to bring us down.’ twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ac169cc5973b4cd/6988609a0a4a2209249c5c37/gettyimages-481219104.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Has Something to Say About Today’s Global Market Plunge by [Ben Geier/Fortune](/author/ben-geierfortune/) ## Ben Geier/Fortune Aug 24, 2015 5:29 PM CUT  AMES, IA - JULY 18: Republican presidential hopeful businessman Donald Trump fields questions at The Family Leadership Summit at Stephens Auditorium on July 18, 2015 in Ames, Iowa. According to the organizers the purpose of The Family Leadership Summit is to inspire, motivate, and educate conservatives. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) AMES, IA - JULY 18: Republican presidential hopeful businessman Donald Trump fields questions at The Family Leadership Summit at Stephens Auditorium on July 18, 2015 in Ames, Iowa. According to the organizers the purpose of The Family Leadership Summit is to inspire, motivate, and educate conservatives. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Scott Olson—Getty Images by [Ben Geier/Fortune](/author/ben-geierfortune/) ## Ben Geier/Fortune Aug 24, 2015 5:29 PM CUT Considering the way he called out China in his campaign announcement speech, you knew Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would have something to say about today’s global financial plunge, [brought on largely by a market slump in China](http://fortune.com/2015/08/24/global-markets-hit-panic-button-after-the-great-fall-of-china/ "undefined"). Basically, The Donald says he saw this coming way before it happened, according to the [UK’s _Independent_](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-offers-his-take-on-chinas-black-monday--he-knew-it-could-happen-all-along-10469782.html "undefined") newspaper: “I’ve been talking about China for years. Because China’s going bad it’s going to bring us down, too, because we’re so heavily coupled with China,” Trump told Fox News, according to the paper. “I’m the one that says you better start uncoupling from China because China’s got problems.” Trump also took to Twitter to share his opinion: > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/635829918199324672) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/635809588567257088) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/635806464595116032) The Independent notes that this response is very similar to the one seen from John McCain following the massive financial crisis at the tail end of his failed 2008 presidential run. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4008453/donald-trump-stocks-markets-china/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4008453/donald-trump-stocks-markets-china/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Has Something to Say About Today’s Global Market Plunge","datePublished":"2015-08-24T17:29:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:23:36.785Z","description":"You knew this was coming","url":"https://time.com/4008453/donald-trump-stocks-markets-china/","keywords":["Donald Trump","China","crisis","Markets","pubdesk","trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ac169cc5973b4cd/6988609a0a4a2209249c5c37/gettyimages-481219104.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ben Geier/Fortune","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ben-geierfortune/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ac169cc5973b4cd/6988609a0a4a2209249c5c37/gettyimages-481219104.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald Trump","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4008453/donald-trump-stocks-markets-china/","name":"Donald Trump Has Something to Say About Today’s Global Market Plunge"}}]}] ```