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Why is Trump's New Guy Hot for Hitler’s Ship?

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

JVL and Ben Parker dive VERY deep into Trump’s BLS pick E.J. Antoni’s proud admiration of a Nazi battleship, and if his big plan for his upcoming role is to sink honest jobs reports similar to the battleship itself.

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0:00.0

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0:01.9

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0:25.5

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0:30.7

Before we get started talking about E.J. Antony and his fetish for Nazi battleships,

0:40.6

Ben Parker, let's go. The Daily Beast has a story that E.J. Anthony, who's the nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he's 37 years old,

0:45.6

he's never managed anything larger than, I don't know, microwaving a pizza. He's going to run this 2,000-person department, and when he was in his research phase as a podcast guest, he liked to

0:52.0

appear with a giant depiction of the German battleship Bismarck behind him.

1:00.0

And he referred to the ship as a he. I think this is the first, uh, guest we've had with a, with a beautiful warship behind them.

1:09.0

The Bismarck. The Bismarck, yep, in all his glory.

1:14.1

Interesting.

1:15.5

I have so many questions for you, but I don't know.

1:21.1

Is this a thing?

1:22.0

We are both, let's just put our cards on the table.

1:25.2

We're both the kind of guys who are into like Navy porn and stuff like that, right?

1:30.4

Super cool.

1:31.3

I would say...

1:32.4

You mean of ships, just to be clear.

1:34.7

Right.

1:35.6

Right.

1:36.3

Yes.

1:36.9

I would say among people in our community, you don't often see guys who are really into the Bismarck, right? Hot and heavy for

1:47.0

the Bismarck is not a thing that's normal.

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