'Unmitigated disaster': Steve Bannon calls for Trump to pull commerce secretary from TV

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon lashed out at Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, calling him "close to an unmitigated disaster" for television appearances to sell President Donald Trump's trade war.

During his Monday War Room program, Bannon suggested Lutnick was wrong to think new manufacturing in the U.S. would be automated.

"We're not doing this so we can set up so robots have a better life," Bannon said. "In fact, I don't know why Lutnick is still doing media."

"Let me be blunt, Lutnick, who is Elon's pick for Secretary of Treasury, I think he's close to being an unmitigated disaster," he continued. "We should see a lot less of Lutnick on TV."

Instead, Bannon said that Trump should encourage TV hits by economic adviser Kevin Hassett, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, trade adviser Peter Navarro, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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"Stephen Miller should be doing more about trade and about this new economic order that we're trying to hammer through," he added.

Lutnick is on record saying that an "army" of Americans would assemble iPhones in the near future.

"The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones — that kind of thing is going to come to America," he told CBS News.

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