By Molly Claire Goddard
8:26am PDT, Jul 21, 2025
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Donald Trump continues to go head-to-head with
The Wall Street Journal.
After the president sued the publication for claiming he once wrote an unsavory birthday note to
Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, Trump went after them again for alleging Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessent attempted to convince him not to fire Federal Reserve Chairman
Jerome Powell.
Keep reading to hear what Trump said about the outlet…
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The Wall Street Journal recently claimed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke with Donald Trump about why he thought it wasn't the right move to dismiss Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from his duties.
"Bessent said firing Powell was unnecessary because the economy is doing well and markets have responded positively to the president's policies, according to one of the people familiar with the matter," the publication claimed in their report. "Bessent also reminded Trump that Fed officials have signaled they could cut rates twice before year's end, this person said."
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In response, Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to dismiss the accusation that Scott Bessent was influencing his decision regarding Jerome Powell.
"The Wall Street Journal ran a typically untruthful story today by saying that Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, explained to me that firing Jerome 'Too Late' Powell, the worst Federal Reserve Chairman in history, would be bad for the market," the Republican leader alleged. "Nobody had to explain that to me. I know better than anybody what's good for the market and what's good for the U.S.A. If it weren't for me, the market wouldn't be at record highs right now, it probably would have CRASHED! So, get your information CORRECT. People don't explain to me. I explain to them!"
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Donald Trump took legal action against The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch, as well as other executives, after they ran a story claiming the right-winger went in on a lewd 50th birthday gift — an alleged crass drawing and note left in a collaborative book — for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
"This is not me," The Apprentice star claimed about the publication's report about the alleged message. "This is a fake thing. It's a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture in my life. I don't draw pictures of women. It's not my language. It's not my words."
Trump emphasized how he would be going after the outlet in the courts, stating, "Just like I sued everyone else."
