Watch CNBC's full interview with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (youtube.com)
Andrew tries to ask tougher questions. Lutnick tries to use calming tones in his speech. ‘If you understood ...' and similar he said a few times. He didn't hold up well against the questions of all the CNBC hosts, it seemed. His points are good and fine but don't answer the economics questions. It could of course be that people haven't really let these considerations sink and and they're just on a different page right now. I mean, it should seem unusual, shouldn't it? that if you want to start a company you immediately look at a cheap country to manufacture and intend to export it all to the US (and Europe) to sell, because that's how you make the big profits. ‘Much much’ he said a lot, too. Why not just use these once? And he keeps saying (in the few interviews), ‘I mean come on!’. I think that US opinion of Lutnick might not turn out so positive, although the All-In pod were stoked about his interview with Chamath and Friedburg (the least confrontational of the bunch, though). His way of interacting seems not really straightforward. The news hosts ask questions, but he doesn't speak or speak directly to these questions really have. He just goes back to his talking points, but seems to say these things in a kind of condescending tone (although it doesn't seem he's being really condescending). I don't know if this type of figure will be accepted well by Northerners. He also seems to refer to everything applying agency to ‘the President’, which on the one hand is correct to do because he's representing the President, but it seems he's speaking his own book, and it seems somewhat doubtful that Trump would have ever initiated or originated these actual policies, and usually even cabinet members speak from their own beliefs and agency in a different way.
‘Everybody’s going to move their factories here.' ‘Mechanics who fix robots.’ He talked about robots staffing the factories.
Is this at all ‘Republican’? Is this ‘Democrat’? Taxes and improved consideration for the working class.