Musk calls Trump’s economic advisor Navarro an "idiot" over tariff critics
American billionaire Elon Musk has escalated his attacks on former White House economic advisor Peter Navarro, calling him "an idiot" who is "dumber than a bag of bricks." Before that, Navarro criticized the head of Tesla.
Musk made the comments on social media platform X, according to Censor.NET.
Earlier, in an interview, Navarro dismissed Musk as merely an "assembler of cars, not a manufacturer."
"If you go to his [Musk’s] plant in Texas, you’ll see that a significant portion of the engines he gets — and in the case of electric vehicles, that means batteries — come from Japan and China. The electronics are from Taiwan… We want cars to be made here in the U.S.," said Navarro, who supports Trump’s tariff policies.
"Navarro is a truly a moron. What he’s saying here is demostrably false… Tesla has the highest number of American-made vehicles. Navarro is dumber than a bag of bricks," Musk wrote in two separate posts.
Musk added that Tesla is allegedly "the most vertically integrated automaker in America with the highest percentage of American content."
Another nickname Musk used for the White House adviser was Peter Retarrdo.
Last weekend, he criticized Navarro for the first time, apparently irritated by US President Donald Trump's decision last week on tariffs, which Navarro played a key role in developing, the New York Post reports.
Trump imposes tariffs
As a reminder, Trump signed a decree imposing a minimum 10 percent tariff on almost all goods entering the United States. For some countries, the tariffs are higher. In particular, China - 34%, the European Union - 20%.
Later it became known that Trump had declared a state of emergency in the country's economy.
The US tariffs also affected Ukraine - the US will impose 10 percent duties on its goods.
China has announced that it will impose 34 percent duties on all American goods in response.
At the same time, the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine believes that there are chances to negotiate other terms of trade with the United States. In addition, Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko assured that the US duty would not affect the exchange rate or food prices in Ukraine.
