The president of the United States, Donald Trump, on the left, and the president of the United States Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.
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President Donald Trump again asked the Federal Reserve to lower rates and also hinted at the “termination” of President Jerome Powell.
In a real social publication, Trump said:
“The ECB is expected to reduce interest rates for the seventh time and, nevertheless,” too late “, Jerome Powell, of the Fed, which is always late and wrong, yesterday a report issued a report was another and typical, complete, ‘mess!’ Oil prices have dropped, the groceries (equally eggs!) They are low and the United States is enriching with tariffs.
In fact, the European Central Bank has been reducing rates, since it tries to increase growth in the region. The ECB reduced the rates again later on Thursday.
A senior White House official told CNBC that the post should not be seen as a threat to fire Powell, but rather as a restoration of Trump’s frustrations with the chief of the Fed. However, Trump doubled his publication later in the day, tell the journalists: “I do not think it is Doe’s Doe’s Doe. It is too late, I am not too late. I let him know, and if I am out. ” Trump also ignored multiple monitoring questions about whether he was trying to eliminate Powell.
The publication comes a day after Powell delivered a speech at the Chicago Economic Club in which he pointed out that the administration tariffs put the Central Bank in a difficult place, since he decides whether to domesticate or increase growth.
“If that happened, we would like the economy to be of each objective, and the potentially different time horizons on which it would be anticipated that those respective gaps close,” Powell said. Those comments contributed to a steep liquidation on Wednesday.
This is not the first time that Trump criticizes Powell’s approach to the monetary policy of the United States. Trump posted on April 4, two days after the announcement of the “Liberation Day” rate of the Administration, which would be “a perfect moment for the president of the Fed, Jerome Powell, at Cutell rates. It is always”, but now I could change the image and quickly. “
However, it is the first time that Trump explicitly requests Powell’s dismissal. Powell has said that the president does not have the power to fire him, noting that “it is not allowed by law.”
Powell’s term as president of the Fed ends in May 2026.