Following an appearance on the right-wing network Newsmax in 2023, economist E.J. Antoni revealed the identity of the warship he frequently uses as his background art for TV interviews. “Bismarck,” Antoni replied on X — referring to the massive Nazi battleship whose launch was attended and celebrated by Adolf Hitler.

E.J. Antoni, an economist nominated by President Trump to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said the jobs report is flawed.

The artwork depicting a German battleship called the Bismarck was visible in two interviews with Antoni in 2023 and 2024.

Antoni Porowski’s Hot Boy Summer just got a lot more interesting. Fresh off wrapping production on the final season of Queer Eye last week, the 41-year-old food expert celebrated by ditching his cast mates and jetting off to the beaches of Ibiza and Formentera on Spain’s Balearic Islands.

E.J. Antoni lacks the research record of previous commissioners of the Bureau of Labor Statistics but has a solid record of backing Trump’s narrative of the economy.

President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the Bureau of Labor Statistics was hanging around the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, footage shows, prompting a panicked scramble from the White House to paint him as a mere bystander.

Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, E.J. Antoni, has suggested pausing the monthly jobs report, raising fears he could alter inflation data that's used to set cost-of-living adjustments for seniors.

Trump has selected E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the next commissioner at the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Antoni’s nomination was quickly met with a cascade of criticism from other economists, from across the political spectrum.