The President’s campaign to bend the independent central bank to his will is straight out of the playbook of populist strongmen and will likely go on for years.

But this week all eyes will be on Powell as he holds a solo press conference Wednesday that will be must-watch TV amid the political drama.

President Donald Trump visited the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington Thursday, where he publicly scorned Fed chairman Jerome Powell over the costs of a long-planned, roughly $2.5 billion renovation project.