“Then I’ll have to fire him,” Trump told Fox Business on April 15 in response to a question about Powell potentially staying on. "If he's not leaving on time — I've held back on firing him. I've wanted to fire him. But I hate to be controversial. I want to be uncontroversial."
Much of last year, 45 threatened and insulted Powell -
Trump blasts Fed chair Powell and looks forward to his 'termination' (April 17, 2025)
Trump ramps up attacks on Powell, demands 'loser' Fed chair lower rates 'NOW' (April 21, 2025)
Then he claimed he "wouldn't" but then had his sycophants looking up ways to do it anyway -
Trump says he has 'no intention' of firing Fed Chair Powell (April 22, 2025)
Then 45 brought in the boondoggle Bill Pulte to get started on one "for cause" angle (similar to what was done to Comey, James, and Cook) -
Trump's top housing regulator calls on Congress to investigate Powell (July 3, 2025_
And then in comes Hassett and Vought to follow-on with yet another "for cause" angle (the current one) -
Hassett says White House probing Fed renovation costs, authority to fire Powell (July 13, 2025)
And soon came back to Powell again after multiple TACO moments -
Trump is considering suing Jerome Powell, White House says (August 12, 2025)
He then pivoted to getting rid of Lisa Cook -
Trump administration moves forward with push to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook (September 15, 2025)
Then Hassett started measuring the drapes for the job -
Hassett says Federal Reserve can reject Trump's views if he is chair (December 15, 2025)
So with all these threats, it got to the point where Powell even made a rare video this past January to address this ridiculousness (Jan 11, 2026) -
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