Trump compares talking to Powell to ‘talking to a chair,’ says he could be fired

On Tuesday, he was asked whether he believed Jerome Powell’s behavior of the surrounding of the federal reserve building was a “extinguishing crime”, president Donald Trump said he believed he was, describing a catastrophe as “very disgraceful.”

The President referred to Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in June.

During his statements, the Federal Reserve Chairman rejected the idea that the recent renovations at the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, DC, and metaphorical buildings – which Powell admitted the budget – included new luxurious features such as Marble, VIP, private elevators, surface -to -surface gardens, new halls.

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“They spent $ 2.5 million in building this place. I have to say this. I think it is terrible. I think it’s completely cruel. But the only thing that I have not seen is a man who needs to be shortened to live,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday.

“You are talking to the man. It is like talking to him – nothing. It is like talking to a chair. No personality, no high intelligence, nothing. But the only thing that I never guessed was that he would spend $ 2.5 billion to build a little extension to anything unprecedented in the federal reserve.”

Trump has been breathing from his frustration with Powell to the media over the past few weeks, annoyed that he had not reduced interest rates at a speed enough, indicating that he had acted strongly to raise prices according to his predecessor Joe Biden.

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Building on the Marriner S. Eccles Federral Reserve in Washington, DC, the United States, on Monday 14 July 2025. (Al Drao / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

“This will be much more than $ 2.5 billion to expand. However, all this to house thousands of people to give him information. However, among the 71 economists-and they were from them, I and another person they made a mistake, it was right. I have some people.

“No, I think when you spend $ 2.5 billion, really renewed, I think it’s very disgraceful.”

US President -elect Donald Trump at a meeting of the Republican Conference in the House of Representatives in the life of Regency in Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Alison Robert Paul / Getty Emoxz / Gety Emociz)

During his eyelids with correspondents, the president also talked about commercial deals looming on the horizon and definitions.

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Trump said that he expects about five or six deals with other major countries in its lock by the deadline on August 1, with an addition to being planned to send a letter at some point “talking about many countries that are much smaller”, such as countries in Africa and the Caribbean region, to address how you will be affected by definitions.

Trump said he would relate to about 200 smaller countries when he was pressed by correspondents.