President Donald Trump stopped short of calling for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell‘s removal during a White House meeting in which the president called Powell “terrible.”
“Oh, he’ll leave if I ask him to, he’ll be out of there,” Trump said at a press event with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday afternoon. Hours earlier, Trump posted on social media that Powell’s exit “cannot come soon enough.”
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