MUSK REFERS TO TRUMP’S TRADE ADVISOR AS A ‘MORON’

April 8, 2025

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Elon Musk on Tuesday described Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade advisor, as “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks” in a growing rift over Donald Trump’s tariff policy.

Musk, a prominent ally of the president, has expressed his opposition to the tariffs, and the Tesla CEO fired back after Navarro referred to his electric vehicle company as “not a car manufacturer” but simply “a car assembler.”

Markets are agitated by Trump’s new import taxes as concerns about a worldwide recession grow.

Musk posted his criticism on X under a clip of Navarro saying Tesla imported batteries, electronics and tires, and that Musk “wants the cheap foreign parts.”

Musk fired back, saying that “Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks.”

The richest man in the world recently supported a free-trade area between North America and Europe, which runs counter to Trump’s main tariffs.

Even in the face of Chinese retaliation and indications of disapproval from his own Republican Party, the US president has ruled out any respite in his confrontational posture.