President Donald Trump keeps talking about how his policies will supposedly bring manufacturing jobs to the United States. But Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, keeps accidentally admitting those jobs are going to be done by robots. Hard-working, patriotic robots.

Secretary Lutnick encourages Bitcoin businesses to set up shop in the United States, as he claims that the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to welcome such companies to the U.S. in the wake of the Biden administration’s hostile treatment of them.

From saying a recession will be “worth it” to dreaming of Americans toiling in iPhone factories, Lutnick is a font of darkly hilarious sycophancy.