Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who narrowly escaped dying along with his 656 colleagues and friends at Cantor Fitzgerald on 9/11, told Newsmax on Thursday that he favors President Donald Trump’s call for a federal takeover of the museum built to honor those who were lost.
“Donald Trump is not thinking about now; he’s thinking about what happens in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years,” Lutnick, who helped shape the museum, told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.” “You can’t let that fall and not be funded. And so the president is thinking we should make this a national monument, so the United States of America takes care of it and always makes sure it’s right, it’s beautiful, and the memory lasts forever.”
He added that he was “in charge of what went in the museum to make sure they didn’t make it like a Disney attraction, just to make sure it was powerful and really told the story, and it really had the right memorial, so I’m very, very proud of the museum.”
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