Source: New York Post
WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has become the focus of exasperation inside the Trump administration ahead of the president’s “Liberation Day” implementation of reciprocal tariffs — with one saying the sentiment is so prevalent, it is “like being a mosquito at a nudist colony — where do you even start?” Lutnick, the hard-charging former CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and ex-co-chair of Trump’s transition team, has rubbed colleagues the wrong way on matters of both substance and style — with critics venting about his recent proclamation that a tariff-induced recession would be “worth it,” his call for the public to buy Tesla stock and his practice of inserting himself into policy discussions. 3 Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is at the center of internal frustrations ahead of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. AP “He just isn’t deliberate enough with his words.
