‘Maybe, he ought to just focus on being a DJ’: Trump rips Goldman Sachs CEO, chief economist for research showing Americans eating the tariffs
By Nick Lichtenberg
By Nick LichtenbergFortune Intelligence EditorNick LichtenbergFortune Intelligence Editor
Nick Lichtenberg is Fortune Intelligence editor and was formerly Fortune‘s executive editor of global news.
Trump’s tariff trade regime does seem to be generating significant revenue, but it will take years to hit the trillion-dollar mark.Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images
President Trump took aim at a Wall Street behemoth on Tuesday, launching a highly personal attack against Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and the firm’s chief economist, Jan Hatzius, in the latest chapter of his ongoing dispute with mainstream business leaders over the impact of tariffs on the American economy. “I think that David should go out and get himself a new Economist or, maybe, he ought to just focus on being a DJ, and not bother running a major Financial Institution,” Trump wrote on social media. The dig referred to Solomon’s side project as a disc jockey producing electronic dance music and performing at clubs and music festivals under the name “DJ D-Sol.”
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