Donald Trump has a long history of claiming, with literally no supporting evidence but plenty of evidence to the contrary, that he knows more about everything than anyone else in the universe. Renewable energy? “I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth,” is a thing he actually said in April 2016. Taxes? “I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world. Nobody knows more about taxes,” he claimed a month later. Banking? “Nobody knows banking better than I do.” Trade? “Nobody knows more about trade than me.” ISIS? “I know more about ISIS than the generals do.” The visa system? “Nobody knows the system better than me. I know the H1B. I know the H2B. Nobody knows it better than me.” So really, it was only a matter of time before he claimed to have a better grasp of monetary policy than the actual Federal Reserve, a moment delivered unto us during a Tuesday interview with The Washington Post.

Ranting about the fact that his hand-picked Fed chair, Jerome Powell, has raised interest rates three times since being appointed earlier this year, the man who declared bankruptcy four times and had to be bailed out by his rich father on numerous occasions told reporters, “I’m doing deals, and I’m not being accommodated by the Fed. 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.” Still fuming, he went on: “So far, I’m not even a little bit happy with my selection of Jay. . . . [T]he Fed is way off-base with what they’re doing.”

Of course, Trump didn’t have to hire Powell, who is literally known for favoring higher interest rates; he could easily have opted to give Janet Yellen another term. But President Gut wanted to put his own “mark” on the Fed, and couldn’t resist treating the whole thing like a reality-TV show, even producing an actual freaking teaser trailer in which he hyped up the announcement of his pick. Also, per the Post, he had additional concerns:

The president also appeared hung up on Yellen’s height. He told aides on the National Economic Council on several occasions that the five-foot-three-inch economist was not tall enough to lead the central bank, quizzing them on whether they agreed, current and former officials said.

Incidentally, people who actually understand this stuff, like former Federal Reserve vice chairman Donald Kohn, say the Fed is doing “exactly what it should be doing, which is to prevent overheating and boom-bust type conditions in the future.” Also? It’s raising rates because of Trump, who dumped a bunch of tax cuts on an already strong economy, which typically pushes inflation up. “The Federal Reserve cannot be expected to do otherwise than raise interest rates,” Brad DeLong, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, told the Post. “This is what Trump bought when he made his Fed appointments. So why is he surprised?” The answer, obviously, is that he’s surprised because he’s not very bright—despite claiming to know more about monetary policy than his own central bank.

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