Trump Slams Fed’s Powell: I Know More About Interest Rates

President Donald Trump touted the economic accomplishments of the first 100 days of his second term during a rally Tuesday in Michigan, while also taking a swipe at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

“Gasoline prices are down by a lot,” Trump said at Macomb Community College in the Detroit suburb of Warren in a speech that aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform. “Energy prices are down. Mortgage rates actually just went down. Prescription drug prices just saw their largest monthly decline ever recorded. How about that?

“That’s a big thing. I’ve got to say it again and again because they will never tell you that. The fake news will never tell you that grocery prices have gone down, everything’s gone down.”

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