For better or worse, brands are trying to stay out of Trump's tweets. When the president criticized General Motors for making Cruze models in Mexico on Twitter earlier this month, the brand's stock fell 0.7 percent. Shares of Boeing similarly dropped by 1.4 percent after Trump complained about the cost of building a new Air Force One in December.
After noticing a pattern between Trump's tweets and immediate stock drops, Austin, Texas-based digital shop T3 built a bot dubbed the "Trump and Dump" that scrapes Trump's tweets for mentions of publicly-traded companies.
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