Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dished in an interview with The Post’s Miranda Devine that he “set the table” for President Trump to score the biggest trade deal of his administration so far with the European Union this past July.

“I do set the table, and the president calls me the best table-setter he’s ever had,” Lutnick said on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out now.

“I work for him, so my job is to set it up so he can close the deal and get as much as I possibly can. Don’t lay off at all. I’m not a lay off sort of guy, so I get the most that I can.”

That resulted in a deal being struck after just 75 minutes of talks at Trump’s Turnberry resort in Scotland.

“He’s everything. He’s soft and hard, at the same meeting,” Lutnick characterized the tenor of trade talks. “He’s

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