Like LARPing as the big smart deals guy was Trump’s shit for literally 30yrs, it had a TV show called The Apprentice. The entire admin is all about appearing as the the tough guy issuing orders and making big deals, with no understanding of how to actually get there
It's like children playing "business" to a tee
They have a list of about 5 different policy levers (some of which are contradictory in addition to all being incoherent) and they're just playing mad libs to get Deals associated with those things, without any larger goal or thought
Ripping the wiring and plumbing out of the walls to chase the DEALS high, and maybe some friends are looking for The Cathedral
- tariffs - Big Government Action in Trade Sectors That Matter (chips/intel bullshit, US Steel snafu) - interest rates down - """""Manufacturing""""" (white men with hard hats larping at making stuff out of metal)
Masculinity is when mud and pipes.
I think this is part of the motivation, marbled in with wanting to diminish the Fed as an independent actor generally, box Powell in as much as possible to hedge against that potential role, and, most of all, to bully through as many rate cuts as possible before the midterms as a crude OBBB offset.