Trump said he’d consider Jamie Dimon for Treasury secretary but now says he doesn’t know who said that
In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek published earlier this month, Trump said, “I have a lot of respect for Jamie Dimon.” He was then asked whether Dimon might be a future Trump administration Treasury secretary.
“He is somebody that I would consider, sure,” Trump said, according to the transcript posted online by Bloomberg.
But on Tuesday, Trump posted on Truth Social, “I don’t know who said it, or where it came from, perhaps the Radical Left, but I never discussed, or thought of, Jamie Dimon or Larry Fink for Secretary of the Treasury.”
Trump didn’t mention considering Fink, who is the CEO of BlackRock, in the Bloomberg interview.
Trump’s comments on Dimon in the Bloomberg interview were a sharp departure from his previous posture on the JPMorgan chief executive. Trump bashed Dimon in November as a “Highly overrated Globalist” in a Truth Social Post after Dimon praised Nikki Haley, who was at the time still running for president in the GOP primary. But Dimon then said earlier this year he thought Trump was right about key issues and that bashing his “Make America Great Again” movement would hurt President Joe Biden.
Despite initially considering Jamie Dimon for a potential role in his administration, as suggested in a recent interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Trump later denied any such discussions on his social media platform, Truth Social. In the Bloomberg interview, Trump's praise for Dimon marked a shift from his previous criticisms of the JPMorgan CEO.
