MSNBC just showed a clip of Howard Lutnick, US Secretary of Commerce, on Fox News

[Towlie]

Howard Lutnick said, and I quote, "You've heard the president talk about trillions and trillions of factories being built in America."

I did the math, interpreting "trillions and trillions" as just one trillion, and assuming that these factories are not stacked on top of each other.

Google says "The United States has a total area of approximately 3,794,083 square miles. This includes both land and water areas. The land area alone is 3,531,925 square miles."

There are 27,880,000 square feet in a square mile.

If these factories are built everywhere in the USA, even over water, with nothing else anywhere except factories and no space between them, the average area of each of these one trillion factories would be 106 square feet, equal to a square 10 feet, 3.4 inches on a side.

If these factories are built on all of the land in the USA but not over water, with nothing else anywhere except factories and no space between them, the average area of each of these one trillion factories would be 98 square feet, equal to a square 9 feet, 11 inches on a side.

[dweller]

1. And they will all be making

teeny tiny screws
😐



✌🏻

[Woodycall]

11. Mostly dolls & pencils I suspect...

[zorbasd]

2. He means how currently trillions of dollars are

being sucked out of our country like no one has seen before.

[dchill]

3. They're going to be 10,000 feet tall. Problems solved!

Or maybe Howard Nutlick is a stupid liar.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Nutlick must have brain damage

[bdamomma]

33. Don't they

all in the regime?

[republianmushroom]

5. But math may not be his strong point, lying could be.

[Skittles]

6. bootlicking

yes INDEED

[republianmushroom]

32. yup

[PCIntern]

7. He's mistaken: it's quadrillions of factories

With quintillions of American workers.

Get it right!

[Irish_Dem]

8. They don't even bother to tell believable lies.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

22. Correct! They are demonstrating just how brainwashed their followers are.

This is a seriously dangerous situation!

[Irish_Dem]

23. It's like they are showing off the stupidity of the American citizen.

[John1956PA]

28. Here is an April 2025 claim by Lutnick about "trillions of dollars of factories":

He made that comment sometime before April 6.

From https://www.politicususa.com/p/trumps-commerce-secretary-admits

SEC. LUTNICK: The country is focused on- you realize, trillions of dollars of factories are going to be built in America. That's huge GDP. The factories being built in America are huge GDP--

Lutnick must have gotten carried away while being interviewed today and omitted the words "of dollars."

[Irish_Dem]

30. He is still sounding stupid. $Trillions are not going to be spent on US factories.

Cheap goods cannot be made in the US.
Land, labor, raw materials, too expensive.

[snowybirdie]

9. Every time I see him speak

I get the feeling he has the same mental problems exhibited by Felon. His family needs to intervene.

[CentralMass]

10. Let me cut to the chase. Both tRump and Nutlick are stupid, crooked, sob's.

[Attilatheblond]

12. What Donny 2 Dolls' team lack in basic logic & math skills, they substitute with insanely extreme hyperbole

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. Nutlick is one smart rich guy.

[ReRe]

14. Our country is being run by a bunch of overly-zealous seniles! eom

[GoodRaisin]

15. Howard Nutlicker is paid to lie. Unfortunately he makes up some wild ones and as we have seen

some pretty stupid ones too. That comment he made about his mother in law’s social security check stands as one of the stupidist comments I have ever heard. I don’t expect anyone to say anything that will top that.

This is just more of his run of the mill lying and he’s just not good at it.

[TheRickles]

16. "Trillions of dollars worth of factories", maybe? Or maybe not.

[AKwannabe]

17. Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

Someone referred to him as Nutlick in another post.

Definitely a NUTLICK!!

[Warpy]

18. Talk about it is a;ll he ever does

It's not backed up by anything but hot air and wishful thinking.

[rickford66]

19. You get a factory and you get a factory and you get a factory ........

[Grokenstein]

20. And we'll all be billionaires! And the fruits and vegetables will pick itself!

All you to do is give everything to the Master! Then wait!!

[taxi]

21. The bottom line is that providing maga with facts triggers their denial mechanisms.

This is a great example. Had Lutnick said, "thousands of factories will be built...", there would have been an uproar. The media would be all over it, airing segments and interviews about how the public has been told these lies too many times for them to be believed. Now, will trillions of factories about to built, it becomes believable. Maga cheers.

[Initech]

24. Does this guy do anything or does he just go on Fox and kiss Trump's ass?

[calimary]

25. "...trillions and trillions of factories"?

Maybe they’re all the fleas in his mattress and blankets. He’s just extrapolating.

[The Wizard]

26. Just another Trump cartel huckster.

[niyad]

27. I have heard orange donny two dolls saying trillions of dollars are being

made here as we speak, but that is utter nonsense.

However, assuming that the nutcase is repeating what he heard, I have several questions. First, does land area include all the areas of the mountains. or just thei area of their base? I mean, there is a lot of land here in the West, but a great deal of it is vertical. And, second, where would all the people live?

[Ruby the Liberal]

29. Well done

Math is apparently the final frontier now.

[vapor2]

31. WTF is he even talking about?

[Martin Eden]

34. Also, Trump has saved 75% of the US population from fentanyl overdose

According to Pam Bondi.