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Howard Lutnick

37 statements across 4 episodes · 10 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 15, 2025 by Chamath Palihapitiya · said 81 times in 35 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Howard Lutnick's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (40), David Friedberg (11), Chamath Palihapitiya (9), Donald J. Trump (5), David Sacks (5), Michael Tracey (3), Ben Shapiro (2), Senator Ted Cruz (1)

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2026 19 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
2025 62 mentions in 27 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about Howard Lutnick, oldest first

Mar 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Howard Lutnick promised zero federal income tax for incomes under $150k
“He said the Trump tax plan is going to cut federal income taxes to zero for anybody making a 150 K or less.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 24:45 Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
Mar 20, 2025
Disclosure
Lutnick committed 25% of Cantor Fitzgerald's profits to 9/11 families
“And I commit 25% of all of our profits.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 8:49 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lutnick says he sold 1,000 $5M investor visas in one day
“And by the way, ah, yesterday I sold a thousand.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:11:27 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lutnick: Superstitious Trump avoided transition planning with him before winning election
“The president is superstitious. He's never had one conversation with me about transition. He totally trusts me.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 30:33 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lutnick cried every day after 9/11 until October 21, 2004
“I cried every day until October 21st 2000 four.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:41:26 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Lutnick: U.S. will establish security evaluations for foreign open-source AI models
“And so what we're going to have is we're going to have security evaluation. Let's say if the security evaluation model says that this is a good model, then people can download it. But it's got to go through the industry.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:21:04 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Lutnick donated $10M and raised $15M for Trump's 2020 re-election
“Now, I gave him money in 2020 re-election. Probably gave him ten million bucks. I raised him fifteen million bucks.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 14:58 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025
Insight
Lutnick: Conform in high school and save academic debate for college
“In high school, if she says the sky is orange, the answer to the test is orange. When you get to college, you can argue with the professor all you want. High school, color inside the lines, give the teacher what she wants, make sure she loves you, and you're g…”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:40:26 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lutnick: US national balance sheet is worth $500 trillion
“What's our balance sheet worth? I say 500 trillion dollars. The president says a quadrillion. But at 500 trillion or quadrillion, 36 trillion? We're rich.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 43:12 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025
Disclosure
Lutnick claims he personally recruited David Sacks into the Trump administration
“I recruited David. I pounded on David. You can ask David. Right. I beat him and beat him and beat him until he finally said, okay, I'm going to do it.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 34:50 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lutnick: 37 million people globally can afford $5M investor visa
“There are thirty-seven million people in the world who are capable of buying the card.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:13:26 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Lutnick: Tariffs drove $2 trillion of committed domestic production to US
“Two trillion dollars of committed domestic production coming back because of his tariffs.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:05:32 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Lutnick: Commerce Department will issue a rule requiring post-quantum cryptography standards
“So the defense of it is called post quantum cryptography. Right. We know how to do it. And we'll come out with a rule that says America's got to protect itself.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:22:34 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Lutnick raised and donated money for Chuck Schumer's early political career
“Early when Chuck Schumer was young before he became what the president now calls a Palestinian, you know, he, you know, I raised him, you know, I raised him money and gave him money.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 10:23 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 negative
Opinion
Lutnick: Chinese AI apps should be banned, but open-source code permitted
“And I don't think we should be having apps in America. And I don't think we should have their website in America because they all go back home. Ok, but it's open source and I want our American companies including college students to be able to download it and …”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:19:48 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 neutral
Insight
Lutnick: Inflation is caused by money printing, not tariffs
“Inflation comes from printing more money.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:03:08 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Lutnick: Federal government inflates pre-election GDP with spending spikes
“And I'm going to break it out for the last 20 years. And what you're going to see is, Every time the quarter just before an election, all the government spending happens right then and there. It's all of a sudden you have this jump in GDP. Right. Total lie. To…”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 47:46 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025
Insight
Lutnick: Stopping payments is the easiest way to identify fraudsters
“And if all the guys who did PayPal, like Elon knows this by heart, right? Anybody who's been in the payment system and the process system knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 42:00 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025
Assertion Supported
Lutnick: Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees during 9/11
“I lost 658 people who worked for me.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 7:42 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025
Disclosure
Lutnick reveals MSG rally plan for Musk and himself to pledge trillions
“The deal was he's going to cut one trillion dollars. And then he's supposed to say, and how much are you going to earn? And I'm supposed to say one trillion dollars. And then we're supposed to say together, we're going to balance the budget.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 39:53 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Lutnick claims he coined 'External Revenue Service' and pitched Donald Trump
“I came up with the name. I wrote a truth. Right. And I sent it to DJT and I wrote, this is my huge idea.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:09:20 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Lutnick donated to both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016
“So I gave him money and I gave Hillary money.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 11:21 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Lutnick: Linda McMahon drafted executive orders while Lutnick managed personnel
“Lyndon McMahon was my co-chair. Right? But she wrote all those EOs that he did. That was, she was responsible for, and I was responsible for personnel, but she was with me for personnel.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 32:07 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Mar 20, 2025
Disclosure
Lutnick: Trump transition team had Pam Bondi lined up as AG backup
“If it's not, we have Pam right here, right now.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 36:28 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
Prediction Partly held up
Lutnick: Unsettled trade negotiations will trigger higher tariffs on August 1st
“Okay, so on August first, whatever hasn't been settled will be settled. You get the tariffs go into effect, right? So all this 10%, they'll all just pop up to some higher number.”
Howard Lutnick Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 41:53 Winning the AI Race Part 4: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum
Jul 23, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Lutnick: U.S. allows allied AI chip clusters if American-operated
“We are comfortable with allies buying significant numbers of chips, right, and having a large cluster, provided that cluster is operated by an American, a trusted American operator, and the cloud is a trusted American operator, so that we know that giant clust…”
Howard Lutnick Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 47:15 Winning the AI Race Part 4: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum
Jan 9, 2026 negative
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Lutnick: Average green card recipient earned in the $40,000s versus $60,000s for average Americans
“So the average green card, if you looked for the last five years, the average American makes in the sixties, a thousand dollars a year, and the average green card recipient made in the forties.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 55:54 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
Jan 9, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Lutnick: Nvidia must send chips to US for government testing
“So the way we're doing it is he has to send the chips to America. We test the chip to make sure that he hasn't enhanced it in any way.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 1:17:39 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
Jan 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Lutnick claims foreign stock markets surged following U.S. trade resets
“Korean stock market of 70%. Japan up like twenties or thirties. Europe up more than 15.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 59:53 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
Jan 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Lutnick: Trump administration sold $1B in Gold Card visas in first week
“No, the president the first week put out that we had sold a billion dollars worth.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 57:08 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
Jan 9, 2026
Assertion Contradicted
Lutnick claims federal government has never compared income data for Medicare and Medicaid recipients
“No one has ever looked at, if you're getting Medicaid and Medicare, how much money do you make? No one's ever compared the two.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 1:02:38 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
Jan 9, 2026 negative
Opinion
Lutnick: H-1B visas should target $500k engineers, not $60k graduates
“Yeah, I mean, look, I think H-B is fantastic for someone who makes 500,000 dollars who's a cool engineer. But it's not ok if it's a 60,000 dollar college graduate.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 57:41 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
Jan 9, 2026
Insight
Lutnick: Large workforce cuts must be executed quickly to avoid ongoing fear
“So the idea is, if you're going to cut 12,000 people, you have to do it fast. So that everybody understands the next shoe is not going to drop tomorrow, right?”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 5:35 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
Jan 9, 2026 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lutnick predicts US GDP growth will reach 5% in early 2026
“They could be this quarter, as in the first quarter, so then I'd say, well, you have to come back and see me when it's through five, but then you'll come back in a couple of months, and then you'd say, Howard, I just spoke to you for an hour. I don't, you know…”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 1:07:35 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
Jan 9, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Lutnick moves Office of Space Commerce out of NOAA into his office
“So I have now the office of space commerce, which I've taken out of NOAA, And then put in my office so that I can re-imagine how do we handle commercial satellites.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 12:49 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
Jan 9, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Lutnick: Commerce Department headcount dropped from 52,000 to 40,000
“In the beginning, we cut, you know, 20%. Like, I walked in the door here with 52,000 people in this department, and now there's 40,000 people in this department.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 5:24 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
Jan 9, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lutnick: 6% GDP growth will fix the federal deficit and taxes
“Imagine if you grow six percent. You're gonna fix the deficit. You're gonna fix taxes. You're gonna fix all.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 1:23:10 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
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