I have a legitimate question this evening. Why doesn’t public enemy #1 want to lower interest rates?

The interest rates were really low for many years. Lowering them now is not going to have a big impact, it might delay the recession just after the election but that's it. The recession will happen regardless, they always do, that's why they're called business cycles. Having a 1% rate might cause people or corporations to take loans, but that won't fix the economy in itself. He's just trying to avoid looking weak before the election. Plus having low-interest rates is bad for savings accounts, and long term low-interest rates weaken the power of lowering interest rates.