Backs-to-the-Wall Mentality and Way Presidents

way: It is a sign of a backs-to-the-wall mentality at the White House that Trump felt the need to lash out in this way, according to The Guardian. Presidents usually go out of their way to avoid saying anything that might give Wall Street cause for concern. There were unmistakable echoes of a mob boss in a gangster movie when Donald Trump insisted that any such action against him would bring an abrupt end to what is now the longest bull market in history. Not this one. Everyone would be very poor. The market would crash, Trump said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.