Gary Cohn, Goldman Sachs
Gary Cohn, the White House's former top economic advisor, said Monday that Jamie Dimon would make a 'phenomenal president' days after the J.P. Morgan chief executive said he could beat Donald Trump in an election.
"I think Jamie would make a phenomenal president. I think Jamie would be a spectacular president," Cohn said from a Reuters New York. "Look, after having seen the inside of the Oval Office and worked inside there for hours and hours a day. It's, in many respects, very similar to running a complex, multinational global firm. It really is."
Cohn's comments came less than a week after Dimon said he could beat Trump in a a head-to-head election.
"I think I could beat Trump," Dimon said Wednesday during an event held at his bank's Park Avenue headquarters in New York. "Because 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."
Shortly after, the CEO walked back his statement, saying "I should not have said it. I'm not running for president." Dimon added that the off-the-cuff remark "proves I wouldn't make a good politician."
— CNBC's Hugh Son contributed reporting.
