Trump and Powell clash on camera over Federal Reserve renovation cost because Dump wants rates cut. Fucksake.
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Trump then called on a friendly reporter, who asked him what, as a builder, he “would do with a project manager who is over budget”.
“Generally speaking, ”Trump said, “I’d fire him.”
As Trump, Powell and Scott stepped away from the media to continue the tour, Trump said that there is something that Powell could do to assuage his concerns about the cost of the renovations. “I’d love him to lower interest rates,” he said.
Powell has asserted, repeatedly, that the president does not have the power to fire him, as the head of an independent agency, and that decisions on interest rates must be immune to political pressure.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 25, 2025 1:04 PM
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How can anyone now see this interaction for exactly what it was? He is now playing solely to retards. And to right-wing and russian bots that work non-stop to legitimize any kind of bollocks he spews.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 25, 2025 12:29 AM
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You can clearly see how furious Trump is that he is being called out on his lying bullshit. Expect Powell to be fired within weeks now.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 25, 2025 1:20 AM
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He was attempting to do another staged gotcha/trouncing moment for the press. It backfired because if it's one thing Powell knows better than almost anybody in the world, it is finance and economy. You can't throw bullshit figures at him without him calling you out on it immediately.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 25, 2025 1:25 AM
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[quote]Expect Powell to be fired within weeks now.
How, r2?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 25, 2025 1:30 AM
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R1 Playing to retards? Trump is one of them, seriously. He couldn't even read during his first administration, his advisers had to draw pictures! Don't. Get. Me. Started,
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 25, 2025 1:31 AM
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Powell cut them to ribbons.
Fuck the fascists.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 25, 2025 1:33 AM
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Trump looks so fat next to Powell. He should avoid standing next to him in the future.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 25, 2025 1:38 AM
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I loved it when Powell corrected him about a building Trump said was being built and Powell told him it was built years ago. These are the people we need, tell it like it is and stop bullshitting.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 25, 2025 2:25 AM
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Even watching from Australia, this is all extremely scary.
It's awful enough to see what he's doing to the US.
After Dump has COMPLETELY fucked the US, he'll really get started on the rest of the world.
It's so much worse than his last term.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 25, 2025 3:05 AM
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And Trump's valet, Tim Scott, obediently receives the Trump's imperious hand-off of the letter that Powell just demolished.
Trump didn't even look at Scott.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 25, 2025 3:16 AM
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Also, r11, the "Yes, Massa, I saw that it was three billion..."
He's beyond pathetic.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 25, 2025 3:23 AM
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Well, how do you think R4?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 25, 2025 4:00 AM
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I love how totally dismissive Powell is of Trump. Hid attitude was one of ," Jesus, you're a moron."
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 25, 2025 4:08 AM
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If Trump had a way to fire him, r13, he'd have done so by now.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 25, 2025 4:14 AM
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When has that EVER stopped him R15?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 25, 2025 4:26 AM
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Biden should've never hired that loser Powell!
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 25, 2025 5:42 AM
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The pedophile that bankrupted casinos is now an economist.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 25, 2025 5:45 AM
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Powell is a badass. He had absolutely no fear of that fat orange fuck and I loved it.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 25, 2025 11:40 AM
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Trump and his minions are currently trumping (no pun intended) up criminal charges or cause(s) for dismissal against Powell. Trump will get his way, one way or another.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 25, 2025 12:29 PM
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Eat my shit, you orange asshole!
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 25, 2025 1:04 PM
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