Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that Americans out of work due to the president’s unnecessary trade war should feel “optimistic.”
Traffic is down at American ports after Trump’s sweeping ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs and a staggering 145% tariff on Chinese imports.
With fewer cargo ships coming from China hundreds of dock workers and truckers have to go without work.
In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Lutnick told these workers to ‘be optimistic’ and trust Trump.
“We’re using the power of our economy to open their economy to our exporters. So that is happening right now. Yes, Scott Bessent is in Geneva talking to his counter parties right now, and let’s see what happens,” he said, referencing talks between the U.S. treasury secretary’s meetings in Switzerland with his Chinese counterparts.
“The president said last night he was very optimistic and very positive. So you should be very optimistic, positive, because the president truthed out, and I rely on the president,” he added.
