highwhey
07-25-2025, 10:12 AM
On Thursday, as Mr. Powell accompanied the president on a tour of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters, the Fed chair seemed fed up. The president wanted to take him to task over the cost of renovations to the building, but Mr. Powell was having none of it.
“So we’re taking a look, and it looks like it’s about 3.1 billion,” Mr. Trump started in, prompting Mr. Powell to shake his head. “It went up a little bit — or a lot.”
“So, the 2.7 is now 3.1,” Mr. Trump continued, causing Mr. Powell to recoil and look at the president with a puzzled expression.
Seeming to anticipate Mr. Powell’s objection — the chair said he had never heard the figure, and that no such numbers had come from the Federal Reserve — Mr. Trump reached into his jacket pocket for a document detailing the costs, which he said “just came out.”
Mr. Powell took the paper, scanned it for a moment, and looked up. The two men, wearing matching white hard hats at an active construction site, stood side by side before the cameras.
“You just added in a third building,” Mr. Powell said.
“It’s a building that’s being built,” Mr. Trump said.
“No, it was built five years ago,” Mr. Powell said.
Mr. Trump tried to get in the last word: “It’s part of the overall work.”
But Mr. Powell stood his ground. “It’s not new,” he said, as the president kept his face toward the cameras and changed the subject.
It was a remarkable scene. Mr. Trump, who is used to world leaders bowing down to him and cabinet members fawning over him, has rarely encountered a top official challenging him in public — in front of television cameras, no less — let alone telling him he was wrong.
Trump doesn't know how to do basic arithmetic so the head of the fed basically told him "listen you FAT FVCK, you can't count for sh1t, you're WRONG" (paraphrased).
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“So we’re taking a look, and it looks like it’s about 3.1 billion,” Mr. Trump started in, prompting Mr. Powell to shake his head. “It went up a little bit — or a lot.”
“So, the 2.7 is now 3.1,” Mr. Trump continued, causing Mr. Powell to recoil and look at the president with a puzzled expression.
Seeming to anticipate Mr. Powell’s objection — the chair said he had never heard the figure, and that no such numbers had come from the Federal Reserve — Mr. Trump reached into his jacket pocket for a document detailing the costs, which he said “just came out.”
Mr. Powell took the paper, scanned it for a moment, and looked up. The two men, wearing matching white hard hats at an active construction site, stood side by side before the cameras.
“You just added in a third building,” Mr. Powell said.
“It’s a building that’s being built,” Mr. Trump said.
“No, it was built five years ago,” Mr. Powell said.
Mr. Trump tried to get in the last word: “It’s part of the overall work.”
But Mr. Powell stood his ground. “It’s not new,” he said, as the president kept his face toward the cameras and changed the subject.
It was a remarkable scene. Mr. Trump, who is used to world leaders bowing down to him and cabinet members fawning over him, has rarely encountered a top official challenging him in public — in front of television cameras, no less — let alone telling him he was wrong.
Trump doesn't know how to do basic arithmetic so the head of the fed basically told him "listen you FAT FVCK, you can't count for sh1t, you're WRONG" (paraphrased).
https://media.tenor.com/D-ItB5iBmPYAAAAM/pow-pow-punch.gif