Elon Musk has continued his public enmity with Trump’s economic advisor, Peter Navarro, for his role in the implementation of reciprocal tariffs, calling him a “jerk” and “delayed” that is “more silly than a sack of bricks.”
Musk, who directs the Efficiency Department of the Trump Administration Government (Doge), began to publicly criticize Navarro, the main counselor of President Donald Trump for trade and manufacturing, in a series of SATURDAY PUBLICATIONS X.
“A doctorate in Econom de Harvard is a bad thing, it is not good,” the technological tycoon written Or the title of Navarros. “Results in the ego/brain >> 1 problem”.
In another comment That has been eliminated since then, Musk argued that Navarro “is not built.”
Stock in Tesla, the Musk Electric Vehicle Company (EV), has discharge More than 38 percent of its value so far this year, the Washington Post Reported.
The comments of the Chief of Duxes Billionaire occurred after Trump presented Status quo’s tow rates of the White House last week, “charge us, we charge them.”
Navarro responded to the duration of Musk’s initial insults on a Monday CNBC appearanceCalling him a “car assembly” who wants to keep his costs low:
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Look, Elon Musk and his Dogs team are making contributions to the United States in terms of waste, fraud and abuse. And that is something very good for this country and for the American people. […] But it is not a car manufacturer, it is a car assembler, in many cases.
If you go to your Texas plant, a good part of the engines you get, which, in the EV case, are the batteries of Japan and come from China. Electronics comes from Taiwan … what we want, and the difference is in our thinking and Elon is in this, we want the tires made in Akron. We want the transmissions made in Indianapolis. We want the engines made in Flint and Saginaw. And we want cars manufactured here.
This business model where BMW and Mercedes come to Spartanburg, South Carolina, and make us gather German engines and Austrian transmissions, which does not work for the United States. It is bad for our economy. It is bad for our national security.
“And with Elon, it’s fine. He is a automobile man, he is a car person. That’s what he does. And hey the cheap foreign parts. And we understand it,” Navarro added.
While Navarro said that the crack between him and Musk is not “is not a big problem,” the Tesla CEO continued its diatribe in a series of publications on Tuesday X.
“Navarro is really a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk said in response to Trump’s advisor to CNBC:
“Tesla has the most manufactured cars in the United States. Navarro is darker than a sack of bricks,” he added in a tracking post, citing a 2023 Kelly Blue Book book study.
Musk then bet on the fictional trade expert that Navarro included in his 2011 book Death for China“Ron Vara”, which is an anagram of the surgery of the economic counselor:
“According to any definition, Tesla is the most integrated car manufacturer vertically in the United States with the highest percentage of American content,” Musk wrote. “Navarro should ask the false expert he invented, Ron Vara.”
In another play in the name of Navarro, the technological entrepreneur called him “Peter Raterreddo”:
“I would like to apologize to the bricks for calling Peter Retarreddo Dumber that a brick sack. That was so unfair to bricks,” Musk wrote in another follow -up:
Every time he asked about the public splatter between the two officials of the Trump Administration of high level on Tuesday, the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said: “Children will be children”:
Look, obviously there are two people who have very different points of view on trade and tariffs. Children will be children, and let them continue their public fight. And everyone should be very grateful that we have the most transparent administration in history. And I think he also speaks of the president’s will to know all the parties: that he has people at the highest levels of this government and this White House that has very diverse opinions on very diverse issues, but the president takes into account all opinions, and then makes the best decision based on the best interests of the American public.
Musk has been a critic of rates for a long time, with Tesla presenting a demand duration of Trump’s first mandate in an attempt to revoke the Chinese Import Tax, the Washington Post Reported.
The brother of the billionaire and his colleague member of the Board of Tesla, Kimbal Musk, also criticized the tariffs of the president and the role of Navarro in them, calling the advisor a “C-minus student” in a testing post:
“Who would have thought that Trump was actually the highest American president in generations in generations,” Kimbal wrote in another publication. “Through its tariff strategy, Trump has implemented a structural and permanent tax on the US consumer.”
The negative comments of the Tesla brothers arrived only one month after Trump promoted Tesla vehicles in the White House.
Monday, Trump saying That “virtually all countries move to negotiate”, since tariffs will take effect on Wednesday, Breitbart News reported.
China, on the other hand, has slapped the United States with its own retaliation rate of 34 percent, which led Trump administration to impose an internship 104 percent tariffs In the country to enter into force at midnight on Tuesday.
Olivia Rondeau is Breitbart News policy reporter based in Washington, DC, I find her in X/Twitter and Instagram.
