Hey guys, it's Andrew Eger with the bulwark. These Trump's storylines, they never really die. They just go

dormant for a little while we all, you know, roll over to focus on something else before we get

another reason to talk about him again. Earlier today, Donald Trump dusted off a classic. He's talking

about how badly he really, really wishes wants to fire the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell,

because Trump believes he has not brought interest

rates down quickly enough this year. But there was a little bit of a weird, interesting twist

to some of that rhetoric today, which we're going to talk about here with our new economics

reporter, Catherine Rampel. Catherine, how are you doing today? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so this is a Trump's out here.

He's given a speech at this, you know, U.S. Saudi investment forum that's happening at the Kennedy Center this morning. As one does, yes. Yeah, yeah, you know, like one does, like you or I would. And as is often the case with Trump when he's on friendly turf,

he kind of just, you know,

gets in his feelings, starts to do the freewheeling speech thing and starts hitting a bunch

of different topics.

And one of the topics that he starts to hit here is the chair of the Federal Reserve,

Jerome Powell.

Earlier this year, it was, you know, broadly speculated that maybe

Trump would actually sort of go nuclear and try to fire the guy. He did, in fact, try to fire a

different governor on the Fed board, but he has not actually tried to decapitate the board to fire

Jay Powell this year. But here's a clip of him from this speech this morning talking about man, how bad he wishes he could. Mortgage rates are down despite the Fed.

I mean, Scott, you got to work in this guy. He's got some real mental problems.

He's something wrong with him. It's just, sweet. I'd be honest, I'd love to fire his ass.

He should be fine.

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