The difference being no other president in at least the past 3 decades has publicly tried to influence the Fed. I’m sure every president has done so privately.

The difference being no other president in at least the past 3 decades has publicly tried to influence the Fed. I’m sure every president has done so privately. Doing it publicly is not the same thing. There’s also the fact that no other president did so during a boom cycle. That was new as well. It’s possible Obama and Bush tried to influence Bernanke and Greenspan. But it’s definite Trump did so. I only need to look at his twitter history to confirm that.