He was irritated, no doubt,

I could give a rat's ass that he's irritated. He can take it out on one reporter but everyone with a brain is asking exactly the same questions and I don't care if the time was inconvenient for him.

The last thing he wanted to talk about was Epstein because he's hiding the truth, for whatever reason. After promising total transparency, its not a good look for him.

I'm glad you stated that. It has been beyond obvious that the administration is hiding the truth. Talking around it as "well, they probably don't see incriminating evidence" is the territory of sniffing farts.

Trump does absolutely seem to have a dictator mentality - he wants the questions to go away because he says so.

He's losing anyone who believed in him. Not because he's got a dictator mentality. I knew that already. BECAUSE HE'S NOT BEING STRAIGHT. This administration is supposed to be "most transparent in history".

Yeah, Trump bullshits a lot. He exaggerates.
Trump plans to grow the economy to reduce the debt.

Put the two together and you believe "he plans" is a certainty?

Well, at least he's stating that good for the citizens of the US is his goal.

I still fear his doing anything he likes with the Fed. I honestly think that the Fed avoids lowering interest rates to avoid higher inflation that runs away. Trump is a bull in a china shop. He has dead certainty on subject matter that few of us really understand, much less him.

He understands money but IMO Trump doesn't have the intellect to understand the mathematical implications of the debt, esp the exponential nature of the debt if it runs away.

His tariffs on other countries has been bringing in billions of dollars every month and are successful, so far. He has trillions of dollars in new US investments promised from various countries and companies because they want to avoid the tariffs.

THAT I agree with. The US is a net importer country. Tariffs can only help us rebuild an industrial base. Other countries retaliate, it's in relatively few sectors.