Donald Trump has a well-documented thing for dictators, which seemingly has to do with his longing for absolute power and his annoyance that, currently, the United States is still a democracy and he can’t do things like force the media to report it as fact that he’s a style icon who invented the hamburger. While he’s been able to deal with some matters by executive order (the travel ban), national emergency (the wall), and intimidation and stonewalling (any type of congressional oversight whatsoever), other issues have remained frustratingly out of his control. At the top of the list of things that grind his gears is the Federal Reserve and his anger that the central bank won’t ignore everything it knows about monetary policy and simply do the bidding of a guy who filed for bankruptcy at least four times and managed to lose more than $1 billion in a decade. That aggravation has thus far manifested in Trump calling the Fed “crazy” and “loco”; claiming the central bank has taken “unnecessary and destructive actions” (i.e. raising interest rates to ensure the economy doesn’t overheat thanks to his ill-timed tax cuts); tweeting that “the only problem our economy has is the Fed”; and demanding that the independent organization immediately cut rates on his behalf. And now that his ill-advised trade wars are officially hurting the economy, he’s extra angry that when he screams jump, Fed chief Jerome Powell doesn’t respond how high, your majesty, and did I mention you look sensational today?

Speaking to CNBC on Monday, Trump continued his attack on the Fed, whining that it doesn’t listen to him and bemoaning the fact that Chinese president Xi Jinping gets to do whatever he pleases with his economy. “The head of the Fed in China is President Xi,” Trump fumed during a phone interview. “He can do whatever he wants. They devalue. They loosen [monetary policy to counteract tariffs].… They have for years. It’s put them at a tremendous advantage. We don’t have that advantage because we have a Fed that doesn’t lower interest rates.” Not only that, but we have a bunch of Fed officials who don’t get that Trump has more economic knowledge in his “gut” than they have in their egghead brains. “They haven’t listened to me,” the president ranted, saying it’s not just Powell who’s “made a big mistake” but the entire Fed Board, who, despite the fact that he appointed 80 percent of them, are not his “people.”

While Powell & Co. lifted rates four times last year due to the strength of the economy and the unemployment rate—“exactly,” in the words of former Federal Reserve vice chairman Donald Kohn, “what it should [have done] to prevent overheating and and boom-bust-type conditions in the future” and largely in response to Trump’s unnecessary stimulus—they’ve held steady since December and last week suggested a cut could be in the offing if Trump’s trade war with China results in U.S. businesses cutting back on hiring and investment. When May’s job numbers rolled in on Friday, showing only 75,000 were added, many economists predicted the Fed would cut rates as early as next month.

In other words, Trump may actually get what he wants, though only because his policies have begun f--king up an otherwise solid economy that the Fed needs to protect from the president. But apparently the berating will continue until he gets that in writing.