The United States Commerce Secretary, ladies and gentlemen:
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster. pic.twitter.com/W5yz18tzea
— Social Security Works (@SSWorks) March 21, 2025
Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month. My mother-in-law who is 94, she wouldn’t call and complain. She just wouldn’t. She’d think something got messed up and she’ll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining.
Like all the guys at Paypal, like Elon knows this by heart. Anybody who’s been in the payment system, in processing knows that the easiest way to find a fraudster is to stop payments and listen.
What???
Lutnick is a billionaire so I would guess his mother-in-law isn’t going to miss her cancer treatment because the Medicare premium wasn’t paid for and she’s run out of food. So sure, she won’t complain. He believes that anyone who does must be fraudulently collecting their social security because in Lutnick’s world nobody legitimately needs that check to live. (If they do, they’re losers anyway, amirite?)
But think about that fraudster claim for a minute. They “always make the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining.”
Sound like anyone we know? Someone who has literally been held liable for fraud to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars? Yeah, it sounded very familiar to me too.