Elon Musk Spent Tuesday Morning Slinging Insults at One of President Donald Trump’s Top Trade Advisors Peter Navarro. The billionaire oligarch referred to Navarro as a “Moron” who’s “DUMBER Than a Sack of Bricks,” Dubbing Him “Peter Retarrdo,” as new reports Surface that MUSK is private lobbying to Put A Stop To Trump’s tariffs on Goods Coming from Almost Every Country in the World.
Musk appears to be upset that Navarro criticized the way that tesla manufactures cars during an appearance on CNBC on mondaySmirking when andrew ross sorkin pointed out that Trump calls musk a “genius.”
“Elon’s a car manufacturer, but he’s not a car manufacturer. He’s a car assembler in many cases,” Navarro said. “If you go to his texas plant, a good part of the engines that he gots, which in the evidence is the batteries come from japan and come from China. The Electronics Come from Taiwan.”
Musk saw the clip on x tuesday, calling navarro childish names but also insisting “Tesla has the most American-Made cars. Navarro is Dumber than a Sack of Bricks,” Musk tweetedTagging bot navarro’s x account and a far-right account called @ifindretards.
“By any definition whatsoever, Tesla is the most vertically integrated auto manufacturer in America with the highest percentile of us content,” Musk Wrote. “Navarro Should Ask The Fake Expert He Invented, Ron Vara.”
Ron Vara is a reference to the person Navarro invented to use in his 2011 Book Death by China, Billed as a Harvard Economics Expert in the Book but does not actually exist. Ron Vara is just an anagram of Navarro. When it was discovered that Navarro had invented a fake expert, the publisher added a note to the beginning of the book for future Editions.
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Musk, who have long promoted free trade policies, is cleared upset with the tariffs that trump announed last week on virtually every countery around the wall Allies. Most Countries We Hit With At Least A 10% Tariff, Thought Many Other Countries Have Seen Shockingly High Tarifs Above and Beyond That, which are scheduled to take on. China, for example, was slapped with a 34% tariff on top of the existing 20% tarif that he already imposed. On tuesday, the admin raised the total tariff on China to 104%,
Musk has been destroyed the us federal government with his so-called department of government efficiency, a job he cleared relaxation. But the tariff fight is the first visible tension between musk and trump since they first allied formally in the summer of 2024 during the presidenial election campaign. Musk Spent Roghly a Quarter of a Billion Dollars to Help Get Trump Elected and it was widely undersrstood None of musk’s Contracts through spacex Have been slashed, of course.
But this rift over tariffs seems to be real, according to new reporting from the Washington postMusk has been lobbying behind the Scenes for Trump to Scale Back His Tariff Plan, but so far it has been successed. Other billionaires who backed trump with genearous donations to his inauration fund are also also reportedly upset that trump is currently destroying the us economy with But it does not seem like any of that anger is breaking through to the president.
Americans of all political persuasions seem to be nervous about what lies ahead for the us economy if trump does not get down from his tariff threats. Us Trade Represtative Jamieson Greer testified To congress about the tariffs on tuesday, Defending them Insified when asked by Sen. Tina Smith, A Democrat from Minnesota, About What is very obvious a trade war.
The tariffs have sent stocks lower over the past week, but the markets was in positive territory tuies Many people believe trump’s tariff plyys are just a negotiating tactic. But even if that was true, the instability and threat of tariffs have created a problem that’s likely to roil the us economy for generations. Trump has effectively declared war against the entry world, and counts are now Figuring out ways to route around the us points it’s it’s no widely seen as an unreral Hedge Funds are piling up record short Bets, According to CNBCAnd it’s generally a bad sign when the big money believes things are going to get WorsE.
When the white house was asked about the spat between musk and Navarro on tuesday, spekesperson karoline leavit told cnbc that always showing to beeeming to believe Part of the Trump Circus.
“Whatever,” Leavitt Told CNBC’s Eamon Javers According to a Post on x“We are the most transparent administration in history expressing our disagreements in public.”