White House Pinocchio wishes for Iran's economic capitulation Scott Bessant, the Treasury Secretary of Donald Trump's administration, has in recent months made a series of emphatic statements and hasty predictions, repeating miscalculations and wrong timings in which they have raised serious questions about the extent of his expertise and knowledge of geopolitical and economic equations. Examining Besant's statements shows that he replaced the objective analysis with an approach based on psychological warfare and bold political bluffs; A method that failed again and again in the case of Iran and even in the evaluations of the local economy of the United States. Read Donald Trump's false predictions here.