Trump on Fed Chair: Anybody Would Be Better Than Powell

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00:00Do you intend to announce your pick for successor to Jay Powell earlier than, say,

00:05or as early as, say, the summer or the fall?

00:08Will I do something about who it's going to be?

00:10Yes.

00:11Hey, he'd be a good candidate.

00:13You might do who?

00:14She'd be a good candidate, too.

00:16Anybody would be better than Jay Powell.

00:19No, he's causing us a fortune because he keeps the rate way up.

00:23I think it's Trump derangement syndrome, personally.

00:25But, you know, we have a very strong country.

00:27We're the strongest country.

00:28Look, our country right now is at a level that we haven't seen for 40, 50 years.

00:35What we're doing now is nobody's seen anything like it.

00:38I told you I was with in the Middle East.

00:41The king of Saudi Arabia said to me very strongly, he said, you know what?

00:44A year ago you had a dead country.

00:46Now you have the hottest country in the world.