The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fed Chair Smacks Down Trump at Live Presser

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell standing up to Donald Trump at a critical press conference and revealing the true harm caused by Donald Trump’s awful economic policies. Miracle Made: Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://TryMiracle.com/MEIDAS and use the code MEIDAS to claim your FREE 3 piece towel set and save over 40% OFF! Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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be pulled back. Here's what we're learning. A major stagflation warning by the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, moments ago. The Fed now predicts a brutal mix for 2025 of the following. Inflation up to 3%. Growth down to 1.4%. Unemployment up to 4.5%. They're holding interest rates steady for now. No drop in the interest rates. They still expect two cuts this year, but we were expecting much more cuts and earlier cuts had Donald Trump just done nothing and allowed former President Biden's economy to basically be on autopilot.

Moments ago, here's what the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, had to say about Donald Trump's disastrous tariffs play this clip Changes to trade immigration fiscal and regulatory policies continue to evolve and their effects on the economy remain uncertain The effects of tariffs will depend among other things on their ultimate level Expectations of that level and thus of the related economic effects, reached a peak in April and have since declined. Even so, increases in tariffs this year are likely to push up prices and weigh on economic activity.

The effects on inflation could be short-lived, reflecting a one-time shift in the price level. It's also possible that the inflationary effects could instead be more persistent. Avoiding that outcome will depend on the size of the tariff effects, on how long it takes for them to pass through fully into prices, and ultimately on keeping longer-term inflation expectations well anchored. In this next clip, Jerome Powell talks about what we see happening with unemployment data and inflation. And Jerome Powell is just a data guy, not a political guy.

Here's what we're seeing as a result of Trump's failed policies. Let's play it. At this meeting, so, and those things are probably slow moving. So I think if you look at what's happening here since March, this is since March, right, you see a little slower growth, just a tiny tick up, a one-tenth tick up in unemployment, and you see inflation moving up three-tenths. And by the way, it was a similar move from the December SEP to the March. So that's what you see. You see the effects of tariffs.

I think we learned in April, after the March meeting, that substantially higher tariffs were likely. And then since then, the estimates of where the tariffs will be have actually moved back down, although still at an elevated level. So we're adapting in real time. And what you see is an accumulation of individual assessments.

Jerome Powell then talks about the business surveys that the Fed has been reviewing and what they see is how the tariffs are now working their way into prices being passed on to consumers. Let's play it. In addition, we look at surveys of businesses and there are many of those and you do see a range of things, but many, many companies do expect to put all or some or all of the effective tariffs through to the next person in the chain and ultimately to the consumer. Today, the amount of the tariff effects,

the size of the tariff effects, their duration and the time it will take are all highly uncertain. So that is why we think the appropriate thing to do is to hold where we are as we learn more. And we think our policy stance is in a good place where we're well positioned to react to incoming developments. A reporter then asks Jerome Powell about all of Donald Trump's attacks on Jerome Powell and the federal Reserve in general, including

attacks earlier in the day. Watch this exchange right here. Michael McKee from Bloomberg Radio and Television. Your friend down at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue continues to lob insults in your direction. And I'm wondering, given now that the Supreme Court has maybe carved out the Fed from some of the legal implications of that, whether this is just noise that the markets and everybody should ignore until your term is up, or whether you worry that it could lead to more pressure on confidence on Wall Street, on consumers, about the outlook

for the economy? Okay. From my standpoint, it's not complicated. What everyone on the FOMC wants is a good, solid American economy with strong labor market and price stability. That's what we want. We think our policy is well positioned right now to deliver that and to be able to respond in a timely way as the data lead us around.

The economy has been resilient, and part of that is our stance. And again, we think we're in a good place on that to respond to significant economic developments. That's what matters. That is what matters to us. Pretty much that's all that matters to us. I need to ask, assuming you are not reappointed, would you stay on as governor when your term as chair ends? I'm not thinking about that. I'm thinking about this. This was Donald Trump earlier in the day where he was having a press conference for a gigantic

flagpole that he was putting on the north and south lawn of the White House, flanked by construction workers who were putting up a gigantic pole, who earlier in their interview, Donald Trump questions if they are illegal immigrants or not. Donald Trump attacks Jerome Powell. You can see on the faces of these construction workers how visibly uncomfortable they are as Donald Trump calls Jerome Powell stupid. Here play this clip. Even the book trying to get him to do something. I've been nice to him.

I do it always. I don't know how to sell. I've been so nice to him. Fellas, you wouldn't let's have dinner too late. I'd go too late. Come on too late. Let's have dinner. I do it every way in the book.

I'm nasty. I'm nice. I'm nice Nothing works. She's like just a stupid person But I don't expect anything. Maybe he does a little bit. Now. Here's the clip of Donald Trump Asking the construction workers if they're actually illegal immigrants play this clip what they gave to us fellas They gave before do we have anybody in here? That's a member You've known all these people for a long time. Any illegal immigrants in there? If they were, they'll find out.

Right? They'll be checking you. You won't believe. Your whole life will be destroyed because of this press conference. Watch, they'll destroy these people. I didn't want to tell them that before this, they'll end up being off. He said so and so. This one is from you know where. Don't worry. I think you're going to be okay. I'll be right behind you. Far behind you. I'll be right behind you.

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Now, Donald Trump's regime has been putting on a pressure campaign against Jerome Powell. The Trump regime has been trying to get Powell to lower interest rates by going on Fox to basically threaten him here is Howard Lutnick Doing that a few weeks ago play this clip It's unbelievable that You know Jerome Powell is just sitting around waiting, you know, the president calls him too late, he's just too late, Powell.

I mean, why hasn't he cut? I mean, you remember, if he cut interest rates 1% and you've got Europe cutting like crazy, you realize that saves America $300 billion a year? It's unbelievable how much we would save. If he did his job and he cut interest rates. The economy is ready for it. It's easy.

Inflation is low. Come on. He's got to do his job soon. And here is Donald Trump also a few weeks ago saying the reason that Jerome Powell isn't cutting the rates is because he's not in love with Donald Trump. Play this clip. Other countries have done it. It would be it's like jet fuel.

It would be great, but he doesn't want to do it. I think he doesn't want to do it. Probably he's not, he's not in love with me. I think that's right. It's sort of a crazy reason, but that's the way life is. Anybody in his position would be like, it would be like. Now in today's report, Jerome Powell believes that there is this massive stagflation risk. But just a year ago, and I'll play you this video from a year ago, when former President

Biden was in charge, Jerome Powell says, I don't see the stag or I don't see the flation. That's because inflation was going down to hit the Fed target. They were able to cut interest rates. Things were looking great. And then Trump screwed it up. Let's play this clip. In addition, I would say, you know, most forecasters including our forecasting was that last year's level of growth was very high,

3.4% in I guess the fourth quarter, you know, and probably not gonna be sustained and would come down. But that would be, that would be our forecast. That wouldn't be stagflation. That would still be to a very healthy level of growth. And of course with inflation, you know, our, we will return inflation to 2%. And that won't be, so I don't see the stag or the inflation actually.

By the way, reflecting on Donald Trump's building of a gigantic poll in the White House today, I did a whole video about it earlier. Do you see the guy in the crane right there? Just look at this photo up. Did the guy in the crane pretend to be asleep to avoid the Trump selfie? The other thing that Donald Trump did today was he removed the portrait of Hillary Clinton and he replaced it with a gigantic ugly photo of himself, his face as the American flag. We'll keep you posted with more.

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