Nick Timiraos

He's called him a bunch of names, an idiot, a moron.

He calls him too late because he thinks the Fed has been too late to cut interest rates.

You had the two men in suits and hard hats, traipsing around these dusty, hot, these plywood walls.

It's a very big construction site over there.

And Powell corrected him in front of the rolling cameras, saying, no, no, Mr. President, you just added a third building.

So there was a little bit of a routine almost, like, can you believe this?

The president and the Fed chair, who rarely talk or hear, are kind of squabbling over cost issues at a construction site.

Donald Trump's a builder.

He knows about a lot of the things they were talking about on that tour.

And so the whole issue, you know, we're watching this thinking maybe there's going to be some real fireworks at the end of it.

But then at the end of the tour, Trump is asked by a reporter, well, is this a fireable offense?

All of these cost overruns and, you know, the White House had been building the argument that this was gross negligence.

And Trump sort of dismissed it all.

You know, cost overruns happen.

And then as quickly as it materialized, it all sort of faded away and we were on to the next thing.

And Powell is the person leading the Fed to cut interest rates against growing objections from his colleagues.

That's a good question.

And it's something that should come out in the fullness of time.

We've seen the administration go after other enemies of the president, Jim Comey, the former FBI director, Letitia James, the prosecutor in Manhattan.

So, you know, it's not like this is the first time we've seen