Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics proudly showed off a picture of the German World War II battleship Bismarck “in all his glory” during a podcast. E.J. Antoni, tapped to replace former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, whom the president fired after claiming the agency “rigged” disappointing jobs report figures, has repeatedly appeared in front of the massive portrait of Adolf Hitler’s favorite battleship during media interviews. In an October 2023 appearance on TFTC, a Bitcoin podcast hosted by Marty Bent, Antoni was immediately asked about the picture of the Bismarck, the largest warship in the world at the time that served as the flagship of Nazi Germany’s Kriegsmarine.
