"It's important psychotically" -- finally, a consistent policy rationale for one of Trump's actions.

[highplainsdem]

The quote above is a real quote, from Trump, when he was talking about


The complete subject line is the tweet commenting on it, from New York magazine's Jonathan Chait:

Link to tweet

"It's important psychotically" -- finally, a consistent policy rationale for one of Trump's actions.

He was commenting on a tweet from Politico's Ben White about Trump's interview with Maria Bartiroma today:

Link to tweet

This is a very odd bit of the Trump/@MariaBartiromo transcript.

The odd bit of the interview is in an image there, so you'll have to click on the link for the tweet, on view the image below:




The same Trump quote is mentioned in this CBS article that's mostly about Janet Yellen:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/janet-yellen-speaks-to-national-economists-club/

"That's a very important position," Mr. Trump said. "It's also important psychotically. If the right person is there a lot of good things can happen. I think I'm doing a good job for businesses in that way. People are coming into the country; you saw what happened with Foxconn going to Wisconsin."

[hedda_foil]

1. So if I'm understanding him correctly, his Fed nominee will kill it.

Super. That's just great. Let's get rid of the central bank and see what happens, shall we? Fun!