r/Destiny • u/Necessary-Grape-5134 • 2d ago

Political News/Discussion Prediction: Jerome Powell will become the "Fauci" of Trump's second term

In Trump's first term during COVID, we had a situation where Trump's stupid ideas and statements on COVID were constantly contracted with Fauci's intelligent statements on COVID. Fauci became a kind of star in the liberal media because he represented a safe harbor in a crisis with a moron leading it. This led to Fauci becoming severely politicized and becoming a massive boogieman for the right wing.

I see all the same forces lining up for Jerome Powell now. Trump and his gaggle of morons are making economically disastrous decision after economically disastrous decision. And they have an entire propaganda arm trying to convince people that what Trump is doing isn't stupid.

Meanwhile, you have Powell who comes off as an intelligent expert on the economy giving sound advice on how the Fed will deal with Trump's tariffs. He doesn't go up there and say anything bad about Trump, but it's pretty clear that he understands the tariffs are causing uncertainty and increasing risk.

I think he's going to get Fauci'd. I think that the liberal media will start to embrace him as a sort of port in a storm, and he will become a monster to right wing media.

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u/A_Chair_Bear 2d ago

At the rate we are going, once his term ends in May 2026 he will be replaced by an idiot like PBD and we are screwed

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u/Cool-Ad2780 2d ago

100% what I expect to happen, trump will beef with Powell all year and then replace him with some other republican dickrider. And at that point, we will be in the end stages of getting fucked, and that will be this countries final nail in the coffin.

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u/ButterscotchCool7370 2d ago

I thought the Fed was a separate entity from the federal government?

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u/Cool-Ad2780 2d ago

It is, but the president appoints the head of the Fed. So once trump appoints some dicksuck who will listen to everything he says, then he'll effectively control the fed too.

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u/SmoothLikeGravel 2d ago

I'll bet $5 that Trump will appoint a dicksuck who will immediately drop interest rates to next to nothing, which will skyrocket inflation.

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u/ale3for 2d ago

That bet is distorted against you, since if you win and get your money it will be worth less

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u/DestinyLily_4ever 2d ago

The fed chair is only one vote, and while fed chairs have always been serious enough that the rest of the board follows them, if Trump appoints someone genuinely stupid the rest may start going against them (this banks on 2026 elections happening and dems winning big enough to make them feel safer)

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u/ButterscotchCool7370 2d ago

Oh ok. Apparently he appoints the vice chair too

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u/Turbulent_Addition22 2d ago

Yes but only during his presidency would he get a chance in 2026 about halfway through. He also has a mandate to appoint one board member. They all need to confirm the new chair and the senate needs to approve.

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u/steroid57 2d ago

TAKE THIS BACK RIGHT NOW

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u/Necessary-Grape-5134 2d ago

If you want hope, Trump will likely lose much of his power in 2027 when the GOP is crushed in the midterms.

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u/steroid57 2d ago

We hope he gets crushed in the midterms.

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u/Necessary-Grape-5134 2d ago

Trump is doing all he can to make sure that happens 😂

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u/LiveJournal 2d ago

They will just forget that their life was much better under Biden and continue voting red.

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u/the_platypus_king 2d ago

The hardliners, maybe. But there's a lot of people that were marginal on Trump, and those people are going to flee the movement like rats off a sinking ship if the economy tanks.

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u/DeathandGrim Mail Guy 2d ago

It's a forgone conclusion

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u/xxora123 2d ago

PBD as chair of the fed actually sounds possible

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u/TheLivingForces 2d ago

I have literally never had this thought before today and now it’s jumped to something of a plurality in my mind

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u/Afbrownistan 2d ago

IIRC the person appointed chair of the fed has to be somone already on the board of governors, and none of their terms expire during Trumps 2nd term.

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u/NewCountry13 2d ago

You say this but the stupidity of the Unitary Executive Theory knows no bounds.

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u/GerardoITA 2d ago

He will 100% appoint someone comically out of place, like Alex Jones

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u/NewCountry13 2d ago

Yall... i am not ready for great depression 2.0 ;-;

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u/Florestana 1d ago

once his term ends in May 2026 he will be replaced by an idiot like PBD

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u/stinketywubbers the udders of content have been exhausted 2d ago

You might be on to something...

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u/Necessary-Grape-5134 2d ago

Let the record show, I posted this before he truthed that 😂.

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u/stinketywubbers the udders of content have been exhausted 2d ago

Lol absolutely got you

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u/n1klaus Jewlumni 2d ago

I thought for sure you were referencing this. Hilarious it came after

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u/BenFET 2d ago

Holy fuck, was that Canadian finance guy correct?

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u/---sh 2d ago

The "crash economy, lower interest rates, refinance the national debt" guy?

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u/ToaruBaka Exclusively sorts by new 2d ago

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u/Light_SwitchMaster 2d ago

Stop playing politics?!?! The level of projection out of these people

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u/Turbulent_Addition22 2d ago

This dicker actually did this shit right before the announcement because he’s ducking g playing politics.

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u/InternAlarming5690 2d ago

Man I feel so bad for jpow. All the calculated, very hard work to achieve one of the best soft landings in history just to be fucked up by a spray painted manchild.

We may go into a global recession but he's the biggest loser in all this.

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u/theosamabahama 2d ago

All to be fucked over by 77 million people. Americans don't deserve a good government, they deserve what they voted for.

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u/ScalierLemon2 2d ago

I think that we should have two Americas. One populated by the people who voted for Harris, one populated by the people who voted for Trump.

Just leave those two countries going for a whole term, see which one comes out better. Spoiler: It's not the one with the Trump voters

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u/theosamabahama 2d ago

Might be the only long term solution. The south has been a dead weight to the country since the very beginning. They will always return to racist fascist politics. Let them secede and we'll never have to deal with Republicans at the national level again.

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u/SpicyEndy 2d ago

Popular mandate means I can stick Jerome Powell directly up my ass.

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u/theosamabahama 2d ago

Everyone has their fetish I guess.

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u/SpicyEndy 2d ago

what I mean to say is that I am deeply distraught at the state of things. I can absolutely see republicans falling in line to blame whoever they are told to.

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u/call_me_old_master 2d ago

if he does we've completed the transformation into latam banana republic

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u/Noobity 2d ago

Isn't he like the number one reason we weren't completely fucked economically all through Biden? I was under the impression this dude was one of the only good things trump did term 1.

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u/r4rLIC 2d ago

We were in for a sorta-kinda-softish landing but now we’re upside down and on fire on the tarmac.

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u/sad-on-alt 2d ago

My king, I will protect him

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u/Mothman_enthusiast18 2d ago

Jpow is one of the few people in government that I trust to always make the correct decision. My biggest worry is that Trump will replace him with a clown in 2026 and that’s when shit will actually hit the fan. Too bad the average voter doesn’t know/ doesn’t care.

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u/DazzlingAd1922 2d ago

Which is funny because he messed up a lot, but he at least messed up in understandable ways and was quick to fix the problems once data caught up.

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u/Particular-Finding53 2d ago

Yeah like the WORST you can say about the Fed is that maybe they were a bit too slow to raise or cut rates but Inflation was a GLOBAL thing and we weathered it better than anyone else the Fed's goal was always a soft landing where things get a bit tough but we then get better which we did again one could argue the landing could have been smoother but hindsight is 20/20 these people act like the soft landing was a recession BITCH your about to see what a struggle is.

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u/SnoopGotTheScoop 2d ago

✋POWELL 2028🤚

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u/Gracksploitation 2d ago

Don't call yourself capitalist if you're not already printing "Powie' Owwie" tshirts to sell to Magats on Twitter.

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u/Hungry_Bat_2230 2d ago edited 2d ago

They hated Jerome because he told them the truth.

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u/OJFrost 2d ago

Bro talk to any Conservative with a Fidelity account, JP is already the Fauci of Biden’s term.

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u/ReverendBread2 2d ago

Spot on. Every bad thing resulting from tariffs will be Powell’s fault for messing up Trump’s brilliant plan

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u/GdanskinOnTheCeiling 2d ago

FWIW, I watched a bit of TheStockGuy's stream - which I've never watched before - as he watched Jerome Powell being interviewed. And there were more than a few concerning comments from his audience, I assume sincere, suggesting in so many words that Jerome Powell is compromised by the libs or otherwise incompetent and that he should resign or be fired.

This TheStockGuy dude also seems to have fully embraced the sleepy Joe Biden narrative, while being unwilling or unable to explain why an apparently asleep Biden is able to keep the US market and economy going strong or in what ways he's 'alseep'.

Anyone know if this guy is worth watching for his financial knowledge?

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u/singletwearer 1d ago edited 1d ago

he repeats some quotes/sayings that make financial sense, and does some decent whiteboards, but he would be a very bad teacher if you want like a full comprehensive course from watching his streams. also note that his streams are more geared to entertainment.

also don't assume that his stream chat saying some pro trump things means he's a full republican. He has talked/flamed people about how trump couldn't get shit done during his previous term. also as a trader he can't afford to go let full political ideology go into his trades. edit: also a pretty snide personality

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u/Harucifer Don Alfonso III enjoyer, House M.D. connoisseur 2d ago

Trump will replace him somehow. Might even "black bag" him.

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u/theosamabahama 2d ago

I would resign if I was him in that situation. Ain't no way I would let him use me as a scapegoat for his failure.

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u/Turbulent_Addition22 2d ago

Only way to essentially save the country is for Jerome to stay out and counter pressure trumps retardation.

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u/theosamabahama 2d ago

The only way to save the country in the long term is to let Trump destroy his own legacy. People need to touch the stove.