U.S. stocks closed out Donald Trump’s first 100 days back in the Oval Office on a sour note, with the president’s trade policies taking the blame for derailing a thriving market and stoking fears the world’s largest economy could slip toward recession.

While trying to time the market can be an exercise in futility, there is something to be said for historical index performance depending on the month.

Tuesday marks the 100th day of Trump 2.0. While the president may be celebrating on Truth Social, the period turned out to be the worst start for stocks to a president's term since the 1970s: The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped 6.