As you’ve probably heard, Donald Trump is not happy with the Federal Reserve or with Jerome Powell, the guy he personally picked to run the thing after firing Janet Yellen. Since July, the president has routinely trashed the central bank for raising interest rates—something it’s doing to keep inflation under control, because Trump dumped gas on the economy at the exact wrong time—and threatening the economic boom on which he’s hoping to run in 2020. “The Fed has gone crazy,” he told reporters in October, blaming Powell for a market sell-off that analysts said was actually caused by ongoing trade tensions with China. “The Fed is going loco and there’s no reason for them to do it. I’m not happy about it,” he added later that same day, just in case the sentiment was unclear. “So far, I’m not even a little bit happy with my selection of Jay,” he fumed to The Washington Post last month, as though he were regretting a decision to order the sea bass instead of the flounder.

But while another president might be content to simply complain about the central bank—just kidding, it’s an independent institution that no other president in modern times has so publicly criticized, with the notable exception of Richard Nixon—Trump also has the delusional self-confidence to believe that he, a man who bankrupted a casino, knows better. (Why shouldn’t the founder of a fraud college who tried to sell steaks via the Sharper Image know more about monetary policy than the Federal Reserve?) “I’m doing deals, and I’m not being accommodated by the Fed,” he said during the same interview with the Post. “They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.” Then, on Tuesday, he rolled up to Twitter this this:

For those who don’t speak Trump, that’s the president telling the Federal Reserve to ignore the data on which it makes prudent decisions and instead “feel” what the market is telling it, i.e. not to raise interest rates because it makes President Buy and Sell mad. (Notably, people who actually have a grasp on how all this works—probably because they go by the numbers, like a bunch of rubes—say the Fed is doing “exactly what it should be doing, which is to prevent overheating and boom-bust type conditions in the future.”) Failing that, the president would like the Fed to turn its attention to The Wall Street Journal, whose editorial board on Tuesday recommended that Powell “pause” in raising interest rates—a decision, they say, he can “defend … on the merits and say explicitly that the President had no influence [over].” What might happen if, instead, Powell makes “yet another mistake”? Who’s to say!