Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed Thursday that being jeered by former Vice President Al Gore was the “greatest honor” he could have received from his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“I mean, what’s better than Al Gore – incapable of discourse, incapable of anything,” Lutnick said on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
“And you all remember Al Gore told us, by today — in 2025 — the whole ice cap would be gone, and Greenland would be green.”
Lutnick, 64, made worldwide headlines during a panel discussion Tuesday by proclaiming that “globalization has failed the West” and America, specifically.
“It has left America behind. It has left the American workers behind,” the former Cantor Fitzgerald CEO said. “And what we are here to say is ‘America First’ is a different model, one that we encourage other countries to consider, which is that our workers come first.”
Lutnick rattled his audience further by criticizing European nations for pursuing green energy policies that would make them “subservient to China.”
“Why are you going to do solar and wind? Why would Europe agree to be net zero in 2030 when they don’t make a battery? They don’t make a battery,” he said.
On Thursday, Lutnick described the panel to host Jesse Watters as “basically a very left set of talks where someone said we need a new form of capitalism, which I think is another way to say communism. And then they let me speak at the end.”
“And at the end of my talk,” the Commerce Secretary went on, “one person out of the two hundred yelled out, ‘Boo!’ So I look over and I’m like, ‘Who booed?’ And it’s Al Gore! And I look at him, I go ‘Really?’ And he goes, ‘Boo.’
“It was the greatest honor of my trip to Davos.”
In a statement, Gore confirmed that “I reacted with how I felt” about Lutnick’s comments, with one source telling The Post’s Charles Gasparino that the ex-veep accosted the Trump cabinet member as he came off stage by saying “Boo” like he was trying to scare Lutnick.
However, other sources told Gasparino that Lutnick’s comments were met with nods of agreement from several of those in attendence.
