Trump blaming FED for economic slowdown is disingenuous

The stock market has had a bad October and even though a few companies have reported good earnings this week many have not. Many have mentioned international softness in their business and have warned on future earnings because of tariff impacts.

Very few have have mentioned interest increases as a coming problem.

The facts are that interest rates have been artificially low for 8 years and are still lower than normal. While Powell has raised rates it not something that really surprised people.

It is disingenuous IMHO for Trump to criticize Powell over the economy when he has put the bigger damper of future earnings with his enormous proposed tariffs. He did fire Yellen and he did hire Powell.

I think Americans would appreciate a more honest expression of the facts. Whats wrong with Trump saying "Yeah I know earnings are coming down but we have to have this trade war for (insert whatever reason)" instead of simply pounding on his choice to run the FED who is doing almost exactly what every one expected the FED to do this year and next?

I guess he has enough supporters who believe the tariffs are a small issue and believe whatever he says that he sees no reason to be more truthful when he comments.