Trump says he has ‘no intention’ of firing Fed Chair Powell

[SteveG]

a complete lie, of course.

Say, this has nothing to do with the U.S. dollar crashing all around the world, does it?

Trump says he has ‘no intention’ of firing Fed Chair Powell
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/trump-sa...owell.html

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has “no intention” of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell before his term leading the U.S. central bank expires next year.

“None whatsoever,” Trump said in the Oval Office when asked to clarify that he did not seek Powell’s removal. “Never did.”

The comment represents a dramatic shift for Trump, who has recently ramped up his rhetoric against Powell and declined to rule out the possibility of taking the unprecedented step of firing him.

[Ombligo]

But will Powell be "unintentionally" deported to El Salvador?

[special]

He realized he does not have the power?

So now he pretends he didn’t want to?

I know toddlers smarter than him.

[Tiangou]

special wrote:
He realized he does not have the power?

So now he pretends he didn’t want to?

Ask who invested millions in options within a half hour prior to his statement.

[rgG]

The people I was listening to said he would have to replace the whole board to get what he wants, not that he would be above trying that, but the Fed isn’t as easy as the Kennedy Center, thankfully.

[DeusxMac]

First term firings, partial list, does not include those forced to resign:

James Comey, director of the FBI: Fired May 9, 2017.
Anthony Scaramucci, White House communications director: Fired July 31, 2017.
Omarosa Manigault Newman, director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison: Fired Dec. 13, 2017.
Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State: Fired on March 13, 2018.
Andrew McCabe, deputy director of the FBI: Fired March 16, 2018.
David Shulkin, secretary of Veterans Affairs: Fired March 28, 2018.
Jeff Sessions, U.S. Attorney General: Fired Nov. 7, 2018.
John Bolton, national security adviser: Fired Sept. 10, 2019
Gordon Sondland, United States Ambassador to the European Union: February 7, 2020
Mark Esper, Defense Secretary: Fired November 9, 2020
Chris Krebs, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: Fired November 17, 2020
etc.,etc.

https://www.boston25news.com/news/explai...984836125/

[vision63]

He's hoping to stabilize the market. He cares about the tumble being blamed on him and his stupid policy. If it keeps tumbling, he'll surely try to dump him. He'd struggle getting a new Fed Chair past the Senate Banking Committee that would simply be his flunky.

[Fritz]

Tiangou wrote:
Ask who invested millions in options within a half hour prior to his statement.

yup. OI aka # of open contracts for SPY 4/30 @ 540 & 550 is >40000. 2x the norm.

[gabester]

Tiangou wrote:
[quote=special]
He realized he does not have the power?

So now he pretends he didn’t want to?

Ask who invested millions in options within a half hour prior to his statement.
This.

But also, perhaps he's hoping Chairman Powell - his own appointee, let's remember - will take a tumble out a window courtesy of his BBF, whom he's trying very hard to give Crimea and all of Ukraine.