Donald Trump said in an interview with "Bloomberg" that if elected president, he would consider the option of making the chief executive officer of the financial conglomerate "JP Morgan" finance minister. Jamie Dimon, BTA reported.
The Republican nominee also said he would not seek to unseat Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell, whose term expires in 2026.
Powell said on Monday that he has no plans to leave his post as head of the US central bank before his term ends. Powell was first appointed to the Fed's Board of Governors by former President Barack Obama, but it was Trump who tapped him to head the central bank, a post Powell took up in early 2018.
Trump turned on him soon after, outraged by the rate hikes the Fed made during Powell's first year in charge. Trump went so far as to discuss firing the head of the central bank.
Last year, Trump called Dimon a "highly overrated globalist" in his social platform "Trut".
Dimon, along with many other corporate executives, had condemned the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Biden.
Recently, however, Dimon has praised some of Trump's positions and policies, Reuters notes.
"He was kind of right about NATO, kind of right about immigration.
He developed the economy quite well. Trade tax reform worked. He was right about some things about China,'' Dimon told CNN earlier this year.