Monitor whether this rhetoric escalates to actual interference mechanisms: threatened removal of Fed officials, legislative proposals to curtail Fed independence, or executive orders affecting monetary policy operations.
This statement erodes Fed independence norms but creates no institutional mechanism for actual interference—it's commentary without enforcement lever. The paradoxical phrasing ('I want him to do whatever he wants') actually undermines the pressure narrative. High media-friendliness (Fed stories are panel-discussion gold) combined with pattern-match (Trump's repeated Fed commentary) generates moderate hype, but the governance substance is minimal without accompanying policy action or personnel threat.