People Have A LOT To Say About The Secretary Of Commerce's Latest Statement On Tariffs, And It's Brutal

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"This Rich Scumbag Is Completely Disassociated With The Average American Experience"

If you didn't know, President Donald Trump (a billionaire) appointed Howard Lutnick (another billionaire) to be Secretary of the Department of Commerce, aka his head advisor on all things economics. So far, Lutnick has had numerous instances of being "out of touch" with the experiences of everyday Americans.

Most recently, Secretary Lutnick has gone viral for his statements at an Axios event, where he claimed that "no pain" has been felt from Trump's tariffs. He then asked for the live audience's reassurance of that claim, but it seriously backfired.

"You go to the store now, you feeling the pain of tariffs?" Lutnick asked the live audience.

"No," he said, answering his own question. "Why not? Because there is no pain."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/live-audiences-reaction-trump-official-153653375.html

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1. Nutlick's arrogance is on full display.

What a dick.

[LearnedHand]

3. Was just about to post that the Alt Media folks call him Nutlick

If you've never read their Substack, delight yourself today!

https://open.substack.com/pub/adamparkhomenko

[Ocelot II]

4. Nutlick is such an obvious anagram, and it fits him perfectly.

And I do like Adam Parkhomenko a lot!

[LearnedHand]

5. So do I!

The Alt Media Substack is right there with Jeff Tiedrich and The Fucking News.

[IA8IT]

2. Sen, Joni Ernst keeping an eye on him. I want this known to every Iowan what a DOGE DipShit she is.

President-elect Donald Trump, center, sits with, left to right, businessman Howard Lutnick; Iowa U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst; Ernst chief of staff Lisa Goeas; and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida estate, last weekend. Ernst gave Musk a letter about suggested cuts in government spending. (Photo courtesy of Ernst office).

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/11/25/repub/iowa-sen-joni-ernst-pitches-elon-musk-on-1-trillion-in-federal-spending-cuts/

Ernst’s letter pitches about $1 trillion in spending cuts to Musk and Ramaswamy, even though they do not have and will not have the constitutional authority to cut any federal spending if the DOGE remains outside the government.

Ernst wrote in the letter that her efforts to reduce government spending during her tenure in the Senate have been “a very lonely fight” since both “Democrats and Republicans always come together in agreement over one issue: living high off the hog.”

Ernst established the DOGE Caucus earlier this month to push for specific spending cuts after Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2025.

North Carolina’s Ted Budd, Texans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, Oklahoma’s James Lankford, Utah’s Mike Lee, Kansan Roger Marshall, Ohio’s Bernie Moreno, Missouri’s Eric Schmitt, Florida’s Rick Scott and Alaska’s Dan Sullivan have all joined the group that’s made up of Republican senators.