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President Trump was asked about Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday after touring construction at the Fed building.
Transcript
00:00Mr. President, if the rates are hurting families in the country, why let that keep going for another eight months? Why not just fire up the chairman?
00:06Because to do that is a big move, and I just don't think it's necessary. And I believe that he's going to do the right thing.
00:13I believe that the chairman is going to do the right thing. I mean, it may be a little too late, as the expression goes, but I believe he's going to do the right thing.
00:21The fact is, it's so big what's taking place in America, where the king of Saudi Arabia says you have the hottest country anywhere in the world, and I thought you were dead one year ago.
00:33I thought we were dead. I just left NATO, as you know. They're agreeing to pay 5 percent. We're not paying anything.
00:40We send them the equipment. They pay for 100 percent of everything now for the war, Ukraine.
00:44But I just left NATO, and every one of those leaders said, every country, they said, and very smart countries, very successful countries, frankly, and every one of them said, you have the hottest country in the world.
00:58We did that over a period of a year. Less than a year, I mean, if you think. I mean, less than a year.
01:02They say a year ago we were dead, and today. So I'm here six months, and we did it over, and we had the help of men like this, and people like standing right behind me.
01:12They're great professionals. They're great professionals. They really are. They're great professionals, and in a short period of time, we made it the hottest country in the world.
01:20With all of that being said, we'd like to see. We can always do better, and we can do better if interest rates come down.
01:26Good job you do. You do a nice job.

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