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Howard Lutnick

What's on Howard Lutnick's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6
34%16%11%9%30%
the Iran death-toll apology 34% · newpinning the collapse on Mark Carney 16% letting Anthropic back in the tent 11% the $250 million pay year 9% · neweverything else 30%
#1
Trump had to correct him on the war dead

He said no Americans had died in the Iran war. Eighteen had. The apology arrived within hours.

Lutnick Says He ‘Misspoke’ About American Deaths in Iran War

Bloomberg.com · 2026-09-03
our translation

he got caught doing the thing he always does: talking past his brief on live tv. the apology is not contrition, it is damage triage before the boss runs out of patience for cleaning up after him.

new — 25 outlets, Trump forced to correctvery sure · 4 sources
#2
Carney: unelected Cabinet members are not Canada experts
Carney answered him by namevery sure · 4 sources
#3
He says Anthropic is forgiven. The Pentagon says not yet.
Pentagon publicly contradicted himpretty sure · 3 sources
#4
A quarter-billion dollars in a year spent in government
new — WSJ number picked up widelypretty sure · 3 sources
friday, september 4
Stay on message about Iran: one apology, no encore(reported)
Open the Cerberus contract review file at Commerce(reported)
Take a chip-tariff call with Seoul before the deadline(reported)
Decline, warmly, to discuss the $250 million on camera(safe bet)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Lutnick apologizes for asserting that there ‘haven’t been American deaths’ from the Iran war | CNN Politics

news.google.com · 2026-09-04

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