The Beginning of The End of Donald Trump’s Presidency

The Honorable Jerome Powell: Profile in Courage, Patriot, American Hero

On January 11, 2026, with America and the world anxiously watching -- and hoping -- Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome “Jay” Powell fearlessly stood up to the President of the United States, and his truth put the lie to Donald Trump.

On that day, Chairman Powell became the first elected or appointed public official to stand in the breach in America’s time of testing and confront the President of the United States, man to man. The first public figure in over five years who Donald Trump has been unable to insult, harass, threaten, or persecute into silence, bludgeon into submission, or politically destroy, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board became the first man to stand up to the wannabe king of the United States.

History will record that Chairman Powell’s courageous televised statement in defiance of the President of the United States marked the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, and history will richly reward Jerome Powell with its favor.

It could just well be that this honorable humble public servant single-handedly saved America’s Democracy, Constitution, and Rule of Law, if only the others of America’s institutions of government, democracy, and law will finally summon the same courage and follow Jay Powell’s noble and courageous lead before it’s too late.

Jay Powell was always the one man in the world who could stand up to Donald Trump, and Trump knew it, which is why, despite his false bravado, he feared the Reserve Board Chairman. Trump forced the latest confrontation with Jay Powell in one last desperate attempt to force Powell from office so that he could finally seize control over the independent Federal Reserve Bank in the eleventh hour and manipulate the interest rates to disguise the crippling economic impact of his sweeping, unconstitutional global tariffs and his unconstitutional war in Iran.

It turned out to be the worst miscalculation of his life.

Donald Trump considered his years-long effort to fire Powell or force his resignation and to gain control over the independent Federal Reserve Bank to be the decisive showdown of his presidency. His face-off with the Federal Reserve was always to be Donald Trump’s Armageddon in which he victoriously vanquished his archnemesis Jay Powell and took the victor’s spoil of control over the Federal Reserve Bank. When, not if, he succeeded, his conquest was to be the crowning achievement of his presidency -- the conquest that assured the success of his entire presidency, because he would control the monetary policy of the United States and, along with it, interest rates, and thereby the economies of the world, to do with them whatever he pleased.

But Donald Trump’s gloriously imagined victory over Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve Bank was never to be and, like the Greek tragedy that it was, everyone in the world knew it, except Donald Trump.

When the day of the world heavy-weight championship finally arrived, the favored heavy-weight Reserve Board Chairman knocked out the reigning light-weight President of the United States in the opening round. The President was TKO’d in the championship fight of his life by the man he had insulted, tormented, and belittled for years.

Donald Trump had finally crossed the wrong man. It was the demure, universally respected Jay Powell who finally called Trump’s bluff, revealing that the humiliated emperor embarrassingly has no clothes.

Both America and the world had longed for a David to slay America’s Goliath and save the nation and the world from the giant’s tyrannical rampage. On January 11, As he spoke clearly, plainly, and truthfully about his ludicrously corrupt pretextual prosecution by the bully president, the entire world cheered on their new David-hero.

America and the world at last had their longed-for hero in the pitched battle for the heart and soul of America, The Honorable Jerome Powell, the courageous Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

History is written by the victor, Winston Churchill is (mis)reported to have said. On January 11, 2026, Jay Powell wrote the victor’s history of the 47^th President of the United States before the would-be victor even got the chance.

It poetically fell to The Honorable James Boasberg to mop up after Donald Trump’s humiliating defeat at the hands of the Fed Chairman. Judge Boasberg’s swift and withering judicial confirmation of the president’s utter contempt for the Constitution and Rule of Law officially ratified the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s presidency that Jay Powell had wrought. For his distinguished service to the country and to the Constitution, The Honorable James Boasberg is America’s other Profile in Courage and Hero in the battle for America and its future.

For their honorable and courageous stands against the President of the United States, Chairman Powell and Judge Boasberg may have earned Donald Trump’s eternal enmity, but they have earned the nation’s and the world’s eternal gratitude.

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Donald Trump built his entire presidency on a political pyramid scheme of unconstitutional and otherwise illegal executive orders, acts, actions, edicts, commands, and Truth Social posts.

Donald Trump’s unconstitutional tariffs and his unconstitutional deportations are the signature initiatives of his presidency, and he had to overpower the Federal Reserve Bank and the Federal Courts in the District of Columbia for these initiatives to succeed. As a result, his presidency was doomed from Day 1, unless he could attack, defy, and successfully delegitimize the Federal Courts in the eyes of the American People, and attack, fire, or force the resignation of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jay Powell and take control over the Federal Reserve Bank.

Trump needed the Federal Courts — especially the Supreme Court — at least to allow his unconstitutional pyramid scheme to work long enough that he could gain control over the independent Federal Reserve Bank, control the monetary policy of the United States, and manipulate interest rates to his liking. In particular, he needed to be able to manipulate interest rates for the duration of his unconstitutional and crippling global tariffs because of what were always going to be the inevitable rise in costs, prices, and inflation. And this was before his unconstitutional war in the Middle East had even come into his imagination.

It is for these reasons that Donald Trump declared war on the Federal Reserve Bank and its Chairman Jay Powell and on the Federal Judiciary on his first day back in the Oval Office and has prosecuted those twin wars with an especial vengeance from that day to this day.

Chairman Powell and Judge Boasberg became the effigial symbols for Donald Trump’s twin wars on the Federal Reserve and the Federal Judiciary. For the reasons of official position and jurisdictional location (in the case of the Federal Courts), Chairman Powell and Judge Boasberg were destined to be Trump’s prime targets in his wars on the Federal Reserve Bank and the Federal Courts.

Trump first called for Chairman Powell’s resignation barely two months after returning to The White House and he has savagely attacked the Chairman every day since, in an increasingly desperate effort to drive him from office. Judge Boasberg was the first federal judge to stand up to Donald Trump and prevent Trump’s unlawful deportations to Venezuela’s squalid CECOT prison, eventually threatening to hold the Administration’s officials in contempt for defying his orders. For that faithful application of the Constitution to the outraged President of the United States, Trump immediately called for Judge Boasberg’s impeachment and has continued to call for his impeachment to this day.

To America’s shock and the world’s dismay, Trump had largely succeeded up until January 11, 2026. Both coordinate and equal branches of the United States Government had not only bowed to Donald Trump, but had fully enabled him, without even a thought of constitutional check or balance. There was neither a branch nor organ of the United States Government that had dared try to stop him or, for that matter, even slow him down. The Congress of the United States was fully supplicant to Trump, and he had defied and stonewalled the Supreme Court and the lower Federal Courts at will. In return, the Supreme Court had favored Trump beyond his wildest dreams by allowing essentially every one of his unconstitutional or otherwise illegal actions to proceed, staying two dozen decisions from the lower federal courts adverse to the president, without so much as briefing and argument, let alone reasoned opinions of law. Trump had also unconstitutionally usurped the powers of the several states, without either constitutional warrant or justification.

In a word, Donald Trump had by brute force collapsed both the horizontal and the vertical separation of governmental powers guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.

The final obstacle to Donald Trump’s monarchical rule over America was the independent Federal Reserve Bank of the United States and its American Patriot Chairman, Jerome Powell.

It was that final obstacle to tyranny that proved insurmountable for America’s wannabe king.