Lutnick currently serves as chair of Trump’s White House transition team. His most notable moment in recent memory was his declaration on CNN that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the vaccine conspiracist and Covid lockdown critic, would not be Trump’s pick for head of Health and Human Services. Trump nominated Kennedy to that very post last week.

Elon Musk on Saturday endorsed Howard Lutnick, Trump-Vance transition co-chair, as his pick for Treasury secretary. Lutnick and Key Square Group founder and CEO Scott Bessent are reportedly top picks to run the Treasury Department.