Jamie Dimon reportedly received a surprising response when he called President-elect Donald Trump after his election victory.
The CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who had privately supported Vice President Kamala Harris, called Trump the day after the election to congratulate him.
But Trump did not answer the call, forcing Dimon to leave a message on his voicemail The New York Times.
The following week, Trump then stated in a post on his social media site Truth Social that Dimon would not join his new administration next year.
“I greatly respect Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, but he will not be invited to join the Trump administration. I thank Jamie for his outstanding service to our country!’ Trump wrote on November 14.
Republicans and Democrats had mentioned Dimon as a potential Treasury secretary for the president-elect, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris, if she had won.
But shortly after his post, the billionaire banker backtracked on the idea of joining a team under the president-elect.
“First of all, I wish the president well, and thank you, it is a very nice note,” he said at a summit in Lima, Peru.
“But I also want to tell the president that I haven’t had a boss in 25 years and I’m not ready to start yet,” he added.
Donald Trump reportedly didn’t answer the phone when Jamie Dimon called him after the election
According to The New York Times, Dimon, 68, had told his aides that he had not spoken to Trump in years before his call was rejected by the newly elected president.
However, a few days later the banker, who has an estimated fortune of around $2.6 billion, said his industry was “dancing in the streets” about Trump’s victory and the coming Republican majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Many on Wall Street are looking forward to a second Trump administration, which they see as a boon for business.
It is not known whether Dimon, who has been CEO of America’s largest bank for nearly two decades, has since spoken directly to the newly elected president in recent weeks.
It comes after Dimon – a registered Democrat – was forced to publicly deny in October that he had supported Trump after the then-presidential candidate made the false claim on Truth Social.
President-elect Donald Trump told Truth Social that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon would not be ‘invited’ to join Trump’s second White House
Dimon was forced to publicly deny in October that he had supported Trump
However, his wife Judy knocked for Harris in the swing state of Michigan the weekend before voters went to the polls.
She also donated nearly $200,000 to the Democratic National Committee and gave the Harris campaign $3,300 — the maximum individual donation allowed to be given to a candidate’s committee per election cycle. according to Open Secrets.
After Trump’s victory, Dimon called the election “one of the most closely fought and at times divisive elections in our recent history,” in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.
“Soon it will be time for all of us to rally behind our elected president and all our national leaders,” he said.
“We must start by bringing our nation together and focusing on the pressing economic and global issues before us.”