The Foreman of Fiction: Trump’s Fed Meltdown in a Hard Hat

How Donald Trump tried to bully Jerome Powell with imaginary numbers, Obama-era renovations, and plywood economics, and still managed to embarrass only himself

There are moments in American decline that feel symbolic, like Nero fiddling while Rome burned or George W. Bush declaring “Mission Accomplished” with two wars still smoldering. And then there’s Donald Trump in a hard hat, waddling around a Federal Reserve construction site, pretending to be a foreman while trying to bully the chairman of the Fed with f…