Secretary of trade Howard Lutnick, Alun Haverford College and the largest school donor, waves in the administration of President Donald Trump, in accordance with the far -sighted CNN article about him published on Tuesday.
Lutnick was the main supporter of the Trump’s re -election campaign, transferring $ 5 million to his PAC and collecting $ 15 million in August in the collection of money in his home in Hamptons, on Long Island in New York. He led Trump’s longtime supporters and became the main architect of the president’s office as a cochair of his transitional team.
Lutnick is the general director of the financial company Cantor Fitzgerald. On the main campus, Haverford is a known presence with buildings named after, his best friend and his company.
He He was confirmed as the Secretary of Trade on February 18, and 51-48 voting divided towards the party. None of the democratic senators from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware voted with his confirmation, although each of them supported at least two other nominees for Trump, and Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania voted for eight.
Here it is extraordinary CNN diving Lutnicka in the White House for reputation.
Lutnick cheers behind tariffs on television, but privately does not agree with Trump’s approach
Lutnick became the cheerleader of Trump’s trade war with “almost permanent presence on cable television,” CNN informed. But privately he told his friends that “he was not excited,” that Trump broke commercial relations with Canada and Mexico, raising the tariffs from the very beginning instead of using them as a lever.
While his recurrent television performances showed his public loyalty to the Trump tariff program, they did not land smoothly with everyone.
Two Fortune 50 managers said CNN that they were unable to meet with Lutnick, just like with other older members of the Trump administration, and one anonymous director succumbed to Lament that Lutnick was “too busy on television.”
The White House official opposed this narrative towards CNN and said that the secretary regularly contacts business leaders. A spokesman for the White House, Kush Desai, argued that all Trump’s employees “play from the same textbook” and are leveled to the Trump program.
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Lutnick really wanted to become the secretary of the treasury
Lutnick aggressively ran a campaign to become the secretary of the treasury instead of Scott Bessent, a billionaire managing the Hedge Fund, who was consistent with the Democratic Party and was elected this role. Lutnick argued that he was the most true to the Trump tariff program, and even He publicly secured Elon Musk’s support.
This feat caused that transition assistant compared Lutnicka with Dick Cheney, who went after the search for a candidate for Vice President George W. Bush from 2000. The White House employees felt as if they had to choose pages while preparing for interrogation in confirmation, and the tension surrounding Lutnick and Bessent is still underway, CNN informed.
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“Really good bad cop”
Lutnick has what CNN described as “boldness in New York.” It rubbed in the wrong way, but it was also accepted.
According to Kevin O’Leary, a Canadian businessman close to Trump’s administration, Lutnick stood out in “good clay, bad clay” with the internal secretary Doug Burgum during commercial negotiations with Canadian provinces, who said CNN that Lutnick was “really good bad clay.”
“Quick and loose with facts”
CNN has announced that some Trump’s allies are not satisfied, that Lutnick can be “fast and loose with facts.”
Lutnick he said before the election This secretary of health care and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He would not lead this department if Trump was elected. It was shortly after Kennedy publicly stated that Trump promised him control of public health in his novel administration, and shortly before nominating for this role.
Lutnick also CNN said in October The fact that Elon Musk would not work in Trump’s administration, but instead would write software that he would give the government.
He recently released a tone other than Trump or expect a recession.
“I would never bet on recession,” said Lutnick on the NBC Meet the press. “No chance.”
On the other hand, Trump said on Fox that he did not like to predict “such things” and that there is a “period of passage”.
