Trump Needs the Money Printer

Trump has a long history of begging the Fed to print money, and in his second term, that hasn’t changed a bit. In fact, he needs the free money spigots to turn on to delay a collapse that, otherwise, he’d be blamed for.

After months of pressuring the “non-political” central bank to cut rates so he can take credit for the artificial bubble, he’s now discussing replacing Fed Chair Jerome Powell with a more dovish candidate, one who will keep rates low. In other words, he wants to sell out America with more inflation so that he can get credit for the illusion of an economic boom.

With Trump begging for lower rates, advocating to scrap the debt limit, and DOGE cuts barely amounting to a rounding error, Trump wants to inflate the currency into oblivion—hoping someone else gets blamed for the resulting debt crisis and dollar crash.  He’s argued repeatedly that inflation is virtually non-existent, a claim that’s detached from reality. In a post on Truth Social where he urged Powell to cut rates by a full percentage point, he called it “Rocket Fuel!” for the economy.