Trump Says ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked if He Expects Fed Rate Hike

The significance lies less in the answer than in the question being put to a sitting president at all: markets have grown accustomed to executive commentary on Fed policy, and the reply here breaks that pattern by withholding a signal rather than supplying one. For anyone positioned around rate-sensitive assets, the takeaway is that this particular channel of forward guidance went quiet. Whether that silence reflects genuine uncertainty or a deliberate retreat from pressuring the central bank is the open question worth watching.