{"id":13283,"date":"2025-08-26T21:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=13283"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:38:21","slug":"washingtons-machtspiele-wenn-der-praesident-seine-eigene-notenbank-stuermen-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/washingtons-machtspiele-wenn-der-praesident-seine-eigene-notenbank-stuermen-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington\u2019s Power Games: When the President Wants to Storm His Own Central Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cabinet meeting has already dragged on for more than two hours when Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy makes a joke that unintentionally hits the core of the Trump administration: \u201cI don\u2019t think Pete or Bobby could hold those poles for two and a half hours,\u201d he says, referring to the cameramen who have been holding their equipment aloft since the start of the meeting. It is a moment of unintended irony - while the ministers joke about physical fitness challenges, the president wrestles with the Federal Reserve for control over American economic policy. Trump sits in the Cabinet Room this Tuesday afternoon, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, explaining to the assembled press why Fed Governor Lisa Cook must be fired. \u201cShe seems to have committed a violation, and you cannot have a violation,\u201d he says, while Cook has already mobilized her lawyers. It is the provisional climax of a power struggle that fundamentally calls into question the independence of the American central bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The president as master of ceremonies of his own show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For forty-five minutes Trump speaks before he first passes the floor to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The cabinet meeting has become a public stage where ministers compete for the president\u2019s favor. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick gets so lost in his praise (\u201cThis is the greatest cabinet working for the greatest president\u201d) that he forgets to finish his actual point about university grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Trump proudly announces that 84,000 federal employees have been laid off while private companies have created half a million new jobs. \u201cThese are the jobs that make money, that create a better life,\u201d he explains, as if the distinction between public and private were a moral category. The irony that he himself stands at the top of the largest public employer in the country seems to escape everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n