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Bulwark Takes

Trump’s BLS Pick Is a Total Clown Show

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Nazi imagery, extremist politics, and a January 6 cameo. Tim Miller and Bill Kristol expose the troubling record of Trump’s new BLS nominee and the risk he poses to inflation, jobs, and social security.

Transcript

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Hey, everybody, Tim Miller from the Bullwork here. We got a bonus Tim and Bill Crystal

0:24.0

segment this week. We had a little extra time this morning. And any time that there's news

0:28.9

about a Trump administration sycophant seeming to have a Nazi fetish, I got to pull in Bill Crystal to talk about that. So we have a few

0:39.6

news items with this guy, E.J. Antony. If you're following this feed, you know who we're talking about.

0:43.9

He's the person that Trump has put in to replace the old Commissioner of Labor Statistics.

0:49.1

He's a total hack. Every credible economist has been trashing him. We have a few stories about

0:54.0

him today, the Nazi fetish. And then we've got, he was there on January 6th. Then we have some pretty bad economic news. Bill, is this news since we talked on Monday? Did we talk about EJ when we were? I don't think it'd be announced yet. I think it seems like time flies when you're having fun.

1:11.6

Wasn't the BLS commissioner just fired?

1:13.2

It was a week ago, right?

1:14.2

It was like,

1:26.8

Yeah, it was just a week ago. Yeah. For the next couple of days, there was a certain amount of, well, the deputy commissioner's taking over. And so let's see, you know, and the place kind of rides itself. And let's see what happens. Then I remember reading like a day or two into it.

1:27.8

It was Sunday-ish.

1:29.9

Well, this is this guy on Tony at Heritage.

1:28.4

He's a real cuck and ban in love. happens. Then I remember reading like a day or two into it. It was Sunday-ish, you know, well,

1:43.6

this is this guy on Tony at Heritage. I mean, he's a real cuck and Bannon loves him. And I mean, he's the kind of the right-wing candidate for the job, but I mean, he's probably not going to get the job. I mean, Scott Bessent and those guys won't allow that, you know. And then like Tuesday morning he's announced. And by Wednesday afternoon, it's like, you'll probably get through the Senate, you know. It's like, yeah. I mean, so it's a very good illustration, though, of the normalization of everything, right? I mean, the stuff that seems impossible, A, that he would fire the guy, the woman who's been there and who's doing a perfectly competent job, apparently, and B, that, and then it gets taken a little seriously well there were problems

2:01.1

with statistics those revisions are pretty good and then there's a wacko guy who's mentioned but

2:05.5

that's not going to happen then the wacko guy's nominated but man probably won't be confirmed

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