Washington Post: Trump says his 'gut' can tell him more than 'anybody else's brain can ever tell me'

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Washington Post: Trump says his 'gut' can tell him more than 'anybody else's brain can ever tell me'
By Kate Sullivan, CNN
Updated 6:44 PM ET, Tue November 27, 2018


Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump blamed the General Motors plant closures and recent stock market dips on the Federal Reserve and the man he picked to lead it, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

"I'm doing deals and I'm not being accommodated by the Fed," Trump told the Post in an interview. "They're making a mistake because I have a gut and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else's brain can ever tell me."

GM announced Monday that it will shut production at five plants in North America and reduce its salaried workforce by 15%, including a quarter of the company's executives.

The President told the Post that he is "not even a little bit happy" with Jerome Powell, the man he picked to head the Federal Reserve.

Trump has long expressed frustration with Powell. Leading up to the November midterm elections, Trump repeatedly bashed him and called the Fed "crazy" and "loco" over recent interest-rate increases. Since July, Trump's repeated scrutiny of Powell has gradually escalated with new veiled threats that he might consider firing his Fed chairman.

In the wide-ranging interview with the Post, Trump also dismissed the US government report released last week that delivered a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impacts.

Trump told the Post "I don't see" climate change as man-made, despite the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community that climate change is caused by human activity.

"One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence, but we're not necessarily such believers," Trump told the Post. "You look at our air and our water, and it's right now at a record clean."

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[Champion Jack]

1. well he's certainly got

More gut than brains

[Initech]

2. His gut has been polluted by too much fast food.

Maybe if he ate a salad and some grilled chicken every once in a while he might think more clearly!

[Doodley]

3. Let's be clear. Is it his gut that"s talking or is he talking out of his backside again?

[no_hypocrisy]

4. So that means that if Trump took probiotics,

then he'd think "better"?

[Cha]

5. Yeah, we've seen your Stupid gutless and

it's a steaming pile of shite.

[Pope George Ringo II]

6. The shortcoming is not with others' brains, but with what Trump learns and hears.

But then he appears to be a man of many shortcomings.

[Blue Owl]

7. My dear Pence, this is a two scoop problem...

n/t

[qazplm135]

8. I think it is absolutely true

that his gut is smarter than his brain.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Translation

He's incapable of learning or understanding things!

[smirkymonkey]

11. Exactly!

Just another way to excuse the fact that he's as dumb as a brick.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Well his gut is bigger than his brain

So I guess I see how he makes that mistake.

[procon]

12. With a gut that big the thing never shuts up! nt

[NightWatcher]

13. His guts have shit for brains

[treestar]

14. His gut is full of merde

[D23MIURG23]

15. His words always come directly from his gut...

And straight through his asshole.