Eyes were closed, heads were shaking and backs were slapped. The nonverbal cues at the president's visit to the Federal Reserve are worth another look.

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.

President Trump is used to world leaders bowing down to him, and to cabinet members fawning over him. Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, took a different approach.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that the Trump administration was not in a rush to nominate a new Federal Reserve Chair to replace Jerome Powell. "We are getting the process underway.

The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has made the removal of the Fed chair his personal mission.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly mused about firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and, ahead of a visit to the U.S. central bank's headquarters on Thursday, called him a "numbskull" for not cutting U.