Trump bites back at Wall St banker

DONALD Trump has accused Wall Street banker Jamie Dimon of lacking the intelligence to be US president amid a ferocious spat between the two men.

Trump hit out at Dimon after an attack from the JP Morgan boss this week.

The president said: ‘The problem with banker Jamie Dimon running for president is that he doesn’t have the aptitude or “smarts”, and is a poor public speaker, and nervous mess – otherwise he is wonderful. I’ve made a lot of bankers, and others, look much smarter than they are with my great economic policy!’

On Wednesday Dimon was recorded in New York saying: ‘I think I could beat Trump. I’m as tough as he is, I’m smarter than he is. I would be fine. He could punch me all he wants, it wouldn’t work with me. I’d fight right back.’

He later retracted the comments and insisted he did not want to be president.