- Howard Lotnik faces a reaction to rejecting concerns over social security checks.
- A former Social Security Commissioner described his comments as “ignorance” and “grossly ignorant”.
- Lutink’s comments are a central point in rallies that protest the shutter of SSA field offices.
The billionaire secretary for trade, Howard Lotnik, is being rioted online on Thursday that his 94 -year -old mother -in -law will not complain about any social security check and anyone who is “fraudulent”.
“We say that this month, Social Security did not send their checks-my mother-in-law, who is 94 years old, will not call and will not complain,” Lotnik told the host of the All-in-Podcast. “A fraudulent always shouts, screams, screams, and complains.”
Based on a fact sheet published by the Social Security Administration, the US benefits of more than 7 million Americans earn at least 90 % of the checks.
Social security employees have been warned that the Trump administration’s plan to reduce 7,000 SSA staff will result in delays delays and can be extended by two to three times.
According to the Bloomberg billionaire Index, the total value of Lotank was at least 2 2.2 billion by February 2025.
The following is a reaction to the comments of prominent Lotank business leaders, observers, and political leaders. Howard Lotank and the Department of Commerce did not respond to comments.
Mark Cuba
In a post related to Bluesky, Cuba published a news article screenshot about the lost social security comments about lost social security. Check and asked, “Has Howard Lotnik has no value as a commerce secretary?”
Reality show billionaires, who are independently identified in politics, congratulated Trump on winning the election in November and, in an interview with Rolling Stone in 2016, called his commitment to the president a “love relationship”.
Martin Omley, former Governor of Maryland and SSA Commissioner
“Social security is a life for millions of Americans,” Omala said at the Rachel Medo Show on Friday night. ” “40 % of the lonely elders rely fully on social security to keep themselves out of poverty.”
He added, “Ignoring the Cavalier, regardless of how many Americans live on a daily basis, is amazing, surprised, and there is a cruel heart in our government center that we have never seen before.”
President of the American Federation of Teachers Randy Wengarton
In the hands of a social security rally in New York’s White Plains, where the Trump administration is ready to close a social security office, the president of the Labor Union, the second largest teachers, began his speech, saying that Elon will be against Lutnik and Lutnik.
“We did not vote for Elon Musk to declare social security as a Ponzi scheme,” he said. “We did not vote for Howard Lotank, ‘Don’t worry, no elderly people, including my mother, would care about it if they didn’t check them with social security.”
Jim Calburn, Congressman
In a post on X, Cleberon, a representative of the 6th Congress district in South Carolina, wrote that “the Trump administration’s billionaires do not know how to rely on a lifetime, honest, honest labor -earned social security.”
The post also presents a viral clip of Lutnik’s comments on the All -in -Podcast, where the show’s hosts, Paliyapitia and David Fredberg, did not dispute directly on the spot.
Rachel Medo
The long -lasting MSNBC host played a video of Lutnik’s social security comments on the All -Podcast, saying that it was “such a political catastrophe” he had to close his eyes nearly because he “could not tolerate it.”
“How do you get it with what you understand about the reality of getting a social security check, and in your life? He asked the second time before playing a clip of Lotnik.
According to TV internal, the average of Rahil Medo Show has more than 1.7 million viewers in prime time in January and has been one of the most popular shows in MSNBC for years.
Chuck Shamar, Senate Minority Leader
Shamar posted the notorious clip of Lutnik from the All -Podcast on X on X and called the Secretary of Commerce “a touch of billionaire”, which is “unaware or unconscious.”
“Howard Lotnik does not understand what a lost social security check for senior on a fixed income,” he added.
Shamar has recently been criticized by Democrats such as Alexandria Okasio Cortez that he is not working enough to fight Republican policies on his decision to vote for the House GOP Funding Bill to stop the official shutdown.
Ben Collins, CEO of onion
Coalins, CEO of the sarcastic news website, posted on a fictitious reaction by Lutnik on Bluesky, on the contrary, he asks an AI Defense Contractor $ 10 billion with speculation.
“80 -year -old, death from scratch: money? To eat?
Lotank: Evast, Griffater!
Defense contractor who once met Peter Thale and made Ayebrosis who shoots wandering dogs on sight: I need Billion 10 billion for reasons …
Lotank: Kim says sir, yes sir, thus sir sir “