The gossip on Wall Street is that Bessent and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had to tell Trump that the bond vigilantes were net sellers of both U.S. Treasury bonds and th

Scott Bessent, the 62-year-old treasury secretary, has quickly become one of the president’s most effective communicators.

He is married to a former New York prosecutor with whom he has two children through surrogacy. In London, he socializes with high society and has been close friends with King Charles III and Queen Camilla for three decades.