Trump warns of 1929-style crash if Harris wins – just as Fox News ticker shows stock market at near-record high

In his latest rambling press conference, Donald Trump warned that the US would plunge into a 1929-style stock market crash if his Democratic presidential rival Kamala Harris wins in November – only to have his argument undermined by an awkwardly-timed Fox News ticker showing up on screen.

The former president laid into the vice president on Thursday in front of a handpicked group of reporters at his luxury golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, hitting her over inflation and the economy.

“We are going to have a crash and we’re going to have a crash like a 1929 crash if she gets in,” the Republican nominee warned, referring to the Great Depression.

“You saw a gentleman yesterday who got up, one of the top analysts in the world, frankly, and said that if Trump isn’t elected he predicts, and he’s predicting you have a stock market crash like 1929.”

Trump’s address was being broadcast live by several channels, including Fox News, which routinely runs a ticker carrying the latest stock prices on screen.

At the precise moment that he made his apocalyptic forecast, the Fox News ticker revealed that the Dow Jones Industrial Average was actually in rude health at 40,563.06, up 554.67 points or 1.39 per cent.

With the near-record high level directly contradicting his argument, eagle-eyed viewers were quick to mock the former president on social media.

Others meanwhile accused the channel of quickly dropping the ticker from the screen to help Trump in his line of attack.

During his speech, Trump stood alongside a display table lined with instant coffee cans and boxes of Cheerios, Wheaties, Froot Loops and Cinnamon Toast and packets of bacon, intended to illustrate the rising cost of living on American consumers.

But he failed to