Second only to not touching him until freshly applied spray tans have had at least 60 minutes to dry, one of the most important rules a person, place, or thing coming into contact with Donald Trump must remember is that he ultimately turns on everyone, and your time on his good side will only last until the next wire in his brain short-circuits and he decides you’re not adequately kissing his ass. Omarosa Manigault Newman was a “wonderful woman” and an “amazing” “star” deserving of a senior post in the White House—until she became a “crazed, crying lowlife.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was doing “a spectacular job,” until he was “very dishonest and weak.” Harley-Davidson was an iconic American company worthy of being fêted at the White House, until it was dead to him. So when the president lashed out last month at Jerome Powell, a.k.a. his handpicked chairman of the Federal Reserve, for raising rates in an effort to slow down the roaring economy onto which President Buy High, Sell Low had just dumped a pile of dynamite, it came as a shock to exactly no one. (Nor should it come as a shock that Trump has continued his campaign to influence monetary policy, despite the fact that the Fed is an independent organization that’s typically left alone by presidents, save one Richard Nixon, whose parallels to Trump are deepening by the minute.)

After a Friday bitch-session in the Hamptons, in which Trump reportedly told wealthy Republican donors that he was pissed at Powell for raising rates with little to no regard for how it affects his re-election chances, Trump continued the trash talk during an interview with Reuters. “I’m not thrilled with his raising of interest rates, no. I’m not thrilled,” he told the news service Monday. Then he suggested—by saying outright—that the Federal Reserve should make its decisions based on what is politically convenient for the ex–real-estate developer:

Trump, who also criticized the Fed as a candidate for president in 2016, said other countries benefited from their central banks’ moves during tough trade talks, but the United States was not getting support from the Fed.

“We’re negotiating very powerfully and strongly with other nations. We’re going to win. But during this period of time I should be given some help by the Fed. The other countries are accommodated,” Trump said.

He also put it out there that he’ll continue to burrow into Powell’s side like a tick that gives you Lyme’s disease, or a bed-bug infestation that ultimately forces you to burn all your furniture, until the Fed chief bends to his will:

Enjoy the next next four years, J. Pow! (If you don’t get shoved out a moving car first.)

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