Trump talks Fed, Tiktok, crypto in Businessweek interview

He also says that:

• He will let Fed chair Jay Powell serve out his term;
• He would "consider" asking JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to be his Treasury secretary;
• He would "love" to have Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin, formerly of the Carlyle Group, in his administration.

The big picture: Trump comes across in this interview as highly transactional.

• He is suspicious of Taiwan and the European Union, for instance, because he doesn't think the U.S. gets enough from them in return for their access to U.S. markets.
• Similarly, he wants TikTok to survive mainly because he wants to see more competition for Facebook.
• And he's now pro-crypto on the grounds that the alternative would be losing crypto dominance to some other country, possibly China.

The bottom line: In this interview, Trump comes across as very similar to the president we saw from 2017 to 2020 — but more obviously conversant with the levers of power and how to operate them.