Lutnick thanked Trump in a brief statement Tuesday evening.

“Thank you, President Trump for your trust in me to help Make America Great Again. As the next Secretary of Commerce, I will join the best administration the US has ever seen and unleash our full economic potential,” Lutnick wrote on X.
Lutnick has been at Cantor Fitzgerald since the early 1980s, when he graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania with an economics degree. He suffered immense personal tragedy at a young age, losing his mother while still a student in high school and then his father during his first week at college. Lutnick was working at Cantor Fitzgerald when terrorists targeted New York City’s World Trade Center towers Sept. 11, 2001, the firm's headquarters. Hundreds of Cantor Fitzgerald employees, including Lutnick's brother, were killed.

Following the attacks, Lutnick became an outspoken advocate for the business community as New York worked to rebuild itself.

The commerce secretary announcement follows days of speculation over who might fill the remaining top Cabinet posts in the incoming Trump administration, including treasury secretary, for which Lutnick was viewed as a top contender. Lutnick's pick was first reported by Punchbowl News.

An official for the transition did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Still unknown is whom Trump will select to lead the Treasury Department, a role for which Lutnick drew public support over the weekend from Elon Musk, the billionaire recently tapped to serve as the head of a new "Department of Government Efficiency."

Musk has been a near-constant presence at Mar-a-Lago since the election, evincing his closeness to Trump.

>>1363297
>This is somehow the least embarrassing cabinet picks so far
It's so fucking over and it hasn't even started yet.

>>1363301
No one even knows who's in Bidens cabinet except the fag that got arrested for stealing women's luggage and the other fag in a dress.
But if it was a shower and not a cabinet it would be his daughter.
And if it was a crack house or brothel it would be his son.
No wonder the country massively rejected your unpopular and dysfunctional politics.

>>1363316
Biden's cabinet all had actual experience and certification in areas relating to what they were chosen to do. Hell, most of Trump's first cabinet did and the exceptions proved to do literally jack shit (Ben Carson).

Meanwhile we have someone with 0 experience in healthcare beyond hobbies in charge of healthcare, a tv snake oil salesman in under him, a 3 years of practice lawyer as AG, someone who didn't make it above major as secretary of defense, and a literal sex trafficker in charge of education.

>>1363297
>the billionaire Cantor Fitzgerald CEO gets called a cryptobro
It doesn't get more wall street old than Cantor Fitzgerald. Also this guy is the first billionaire in Trump's cabinet so far (last time he had 5).

>>1363325
>Biden's cabinet all had actual experience and certification in areas relating to what they were chosen to do
Ah yes, mr Pete was put in charge of transportation because he was gay and likes trains. Totally some solid previous experience there.

>>1363326
Isn’t undeserved
https://www.fastcompany.com/91231937/why-the-crypto-community-loves-howard-lutnick-trumps-pick-for-commerce-secretary

>>1363325
>Biden's cabinet all had actual experience and certification in areas relating to what they were chosen to do
The head of the DoE under Biden was a cross dressing sexpest freak who stole women's clothing in suitcases from airports

>>1363326
That was a cryto-statement, you crypto-fascist.

>>1363337
Cripes, crypto-statement

>>1363325
Yeah I don’t want someone with a college degree running jackshit. I want fresh people without credentials. I want people whose loyalty to Mr Trump is unquestionable. I want people who will kill the beast rather than just starve it. I want people who have vengeance in their heart.

>>1363316
amen

>>1363325
>Biden's cabinet all had actual experience and certification in areas relating to what they were chosen to do.
So stealing women's luggage and penis cutting...
Anyway, Biden was a fuck up. So the moral of the story is that everyone fucks up even people who shouldn't be collassal fuck ups like Biden and his cabinet of fucked up fuckups.
I didn't think you get to complain. You lost the election because everyone involved with Biden, including all Democrat advocates, are engrossed in and entirely committed to dangerous and unpopular politics.

>>1363316
>>1363349
Cool GOP thinktank narative

>>1363356
I think the election results prove this isn't think-tank related.
Literally lost the popular vote for the first time in who knows how many years. Which I'm excited about since you can't complain about the electoral college being the reason you can't molest children in schools. You're just genuinely unpopular.

>>1363345
Because this went so well with Trump's unqualified appointments the first time. Ben Carson's only accomplishment was spending 40k on a dining set for his office.

Cronyism has literally never worked.

>>1363325
great lets keep the out of date boomers who still think videogames and marijuana are the worst things on earth.
I'm sure that's why democrats preferred an AG who imprisoned people for cannabis talking about how she's going to fix the system and legalize cannabis if she gets into office! God gullible AF

>>1363359
worked for the democrats

>>1363349

As a Obama supporter Biden and his cabinets are retards. Obama solely picked Biden as VP because he's a retard

>>1363357
The election results prove vast numbers of the usual voters stayed home and didn't vote.

>>1363400
>the usual voters
More voters in every single election year ever, except for 2020 which saw an additional 10million democrat voters which later dissolved into the ether