COMMENTARY: Trump's baffling Fed threat could be gift to Warsh ↧ ↧ COMMENTARY: Trump's baffling Fed threat could be gift to Warsh Donald Trump's unfathomable link between U.S. interest rate policy and trade ties with America's biggest partners led to more head-scratching than market impact. But the strangeness of the president's take offers Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh an opportunity to convincingly distance himself from the White House.