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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,455 posts)
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 01:10 PM Jul 2025

Cheato Bandito whining about Jerome Powell again

President Trump said Jerome Powell "should resign immediately" in a Truth Social post Wednesday night, increasing a White House pressure campaign on the Federal Reserve chairman that has been intensifying this week.

Trump started the week by publicly criticizing the Fed and Powell for not lowering rates. He posted a note he sent to Powell telling the Fed chair, "Jerome—You are, as usual, 'Too Late,'" and arguing that he has "cost the USA a fortune." His press secretary held up the note at the White House on Monday so reporters could see it.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent then, in separate TV interviews, compared the Fed to an old person who is afraid of falling after having stumbled once and said, "I guess this tariff derangement syndrome happens even over at the Fed," referring to concerns Powell and other Fed officials have voiced about inflation from Trump's tariffs.

When Trump used Truth Social Wednesday night to urge Powell's resignation, referring to him again with the nickname "Too Late," he linked to a news story that detailed calls made by yet another member of his administration, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, for Congress to investigate Powell over statements made to Senate lawmakers about renovations to the Fed's headquarters.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-feds-powell-should-resign-immediately-111529874.html

How much scotch do you drink Bessent, or do you have another preferred poison? You always seemed to be buzzed.

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Cheato Bandito whining about Jerome Powell again (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 OP
He's seeding the campaign trail. When his inflationary policies come home to roost..."wasn't me, it was Powell". CincyDem Jul 2025 #1
Yes, that is a distinct possibility. Plausible deniability. Donnie needs scapegoats bucolic_frolic Jul 2025 #3
We don't need to stimulate after those jobs numbers bucolic_frolic Jul 2025 #2
Trump, Bessent hildegaard28 Jul 2025 #4

CincyDem

(7,412 posts)
1. He's seeding the campaign trail. When his inflationary policies come home to roost..."wasn't me, it was Powell".
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 01:15 PM
Jul 2025

bucolic_frolic

(55,840 posts)
3. Yes, that is a distinct possibility. Plausible deniability. Donnie needs scapegoats
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 01:19 PM
Jul 2025

for his con game of blame and shame to work.

bucolic_frolic

(55,840 posts)
2. We don't need to stimulate after those jobs numbers
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 01:16 PM
Jul 2025

Fed has done a good job for quite awhile. While we had inflation, they didn't do what they did in the 1970s, which was to reduce rates too soon in response to (apparent) political influence. Ahem.

hildegaard28

(792 posts)
4. Trump, Bessent
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 01:33 PM
Jul 2025

And others have Reality Derangement Syndrome. They're deranged by the existence of reality, and thus can't accept it no matter the evidence.

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