Howard Lutnick is America's commerce secretary under President Donald Trump. Until earlier in 2025 he owned and ran Cantor Fitzgerald, a Wall Street bank. He has promoted Trump's proposed $5m "gold card" visa, saying the proceeds would go towards paying down the national debt.
Lutnick has insisted that "the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones" would soon come back to America, where the work could be automated. Apple is instead planning to assemble America-bound smartphones in India.
Lutnick oversees national-security investigations under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which lets America restrict imports it deems a threat to national security.
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.