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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Bannon wants nearly 'unmitigated disaster' Lutnick yanked

Donald Trump's former White House strategist and rightwing podcaster Steve Bannon is on a mission against the president's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. He wants him yanked off the media because he's "close to an unmitigated disaster," Bannon slammed on his podcast Monday.

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... Lutnick, former CEO of financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, is an almost always gregarious, smiling salesman for Trump's economic vision, whatever that might be on a given day. But he doesn't often seem super clear on what that vision is or what might most appeal to Trump supporters.

"I don't know why Lutnick's still doing media. Let me be blunt," said Bannon, who pointed out that Lutnick had been tech billionaire Elon Musk's pick for Treasury secretary. "I think he's close to being an unmitigated disaster. We should see a lot less of Lutnick on TV," he added.

"We have to have a clear message so people understand what the process is," Bannon added, claiming there is a "well thought through" process concerning Trump's ping-ponging tariffs that have rattled the markets. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-16 09:11 PM

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... Last week Lutnick pushed a vision of a happy future army of "millions" of Americans delighted to screw screws into cell phones once tariffs somehow move those kinds of jobs back to the U.S. from China.

"The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America," he boasted to CBS News (to the horror of many who responded on social media). ...



So, that's the Trump admin's vision of the future of American workers when jobs are brought back to the US?

The army of millions and millions of [American workers] screwing in little screws to make iPhones?

Really?



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-16 09:14 PM

Our feudal overlords are out of touch with the masses. Steve Bannon wants the ruling elites like Coward Nutlick to dissemble better or be silent about their plans to keep people working for slave wages: i.pinimg.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-17 05:07 AM

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