Musk Says Peter Navarro is “Dumber Than a Sack of Bricks!”
Head of DOGE Elon Musk has made no secret of his disdain for White House trade advisor Peter Navarro. The billionaire CEO escalated his attacks against Navarro, calling him a “moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks.”
Musk’s acerbic comment was in response to the trade adviser’s suggestion on a recent episode of CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that the Tesla boss was “not a car manufacturer” but “a car assembler,” referencing the electric vehicle company’s importing of batteries and other key components to manufacture its cars.
“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk wrote on X, adding in a subsequent post in which he tagged the “Re—d Finder”: “Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks.”
“By any definition whatsoever, Tesla is the most vertically integrated auto manufacturer in America with the highest percentage of US content.” Musk continued. “Navarro should ask the fake expert he invented, Ron Vara.”
In his screed against Navarro, Musk cited a Cars.com study of 338 cars in 2023 that concluded Tesla had four of the top five American-made cars. However, that study counted Canada as part of the US.
Musk also later bashed Navarro as “Peter Retard-o.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed Musk and Navarro’s feud Tuesday afternoon and praised Trump for his “willingness to hear from all sides.”
“These are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade and on tariffs,” Leavitt told reporters during her regular press briefing. “Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparing continue. You guys should all be very grateful that we have the most transparent administration in history.”
Last weekend, Musk had first taken swipes against Navarro, 75, seemingly irked by President Trump’s onslaught of tariffs that Navarro played a pivotal role in crafting.
On Saturday April 5, Musk chided that Navarro’s Harvard education — he holds a master’s and Ph.D. from the Ivy League university — “is a bad thing, not a good thing,” prompting the trade adviser to accuse the world’s richest man of trying to protect his own interest.
“Elon, when he’s in his DOGE lane, is great, but we understand what’s going on here. Elon sells cars. He’s simply protecting his own interests,” Navarro told Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“There’s no rift here. Look, Elon, he’s got X, he’s got a big microphone. We don’t mind him saying whatever he wants. But, just, the American people need to understand that we understand what that’s all about, and it’s fine,” Navarro added.
The South Africa-born tycoon has had somewhat of a mixed opinion of Trump’s tariffs, however, he has publicly expressed hope that the end result of Trump’s protectionist shift will be a zero-tariff understanding between the US and Europe. “At the end of the day, I hope it’s agreed that both Europe and the United States should move ideally, in my view, to a zero-tariff situation, effectively creating a free trade zone between Europe and North America,” Musk said during a video chat with Italy’s right-leaning co-ruling League party over the weekend.
Previous to Trump World War III, the tariff edition, what were the European tariffs on the USA? I can’t find any except in retaliation to ours.
Dunger is still spouting dung. He won’t even spell his nickname correctly. What a joke. He should be removed from society and housed in a care facility. Trump has driven him crazy.
Wampler wants to disappear his self-perceived enemy to make his life better. Using his firm grasp of naming, try Swampler, as in drain it.
Like yours, my name is made up since it’s an anonymous web site. Joe’s is fictional too. So if the Pakistani Dempsey, which is funny too. Why do you think so few bio’s? Hard to bio a fake name.
His answer to “what are eu tariffs on the usa” is to attack my name. Won’t make your life better, friend. Especially if you feel the need to bash people for a simple question having nothing to do with politics just because of my politics.
Used to be a time that it didn’t matter. A time we could discuss, have robust discussions, and still be friends. Apparently over now for Jimmy.
I spell my name; danger. Facts matter. Truth matters. Wampler matters.
While I think Musk is a bit of a moron, he was right when he called Navarro a moron, but he didn’t go into enough detail. The simple fact is Navarro has no economic expertise. He (similar to Trump) simply made up an “expert” when he was touting the credentials for his book. The expert he quoted, backing his economic ideas, Ron Vara, is a non-existent person (can we say that his backer is ‘fake news’) Navarro is hardly someone with the credentials to be backing the President of the United States (but since they are both unqualified, I guess this is not surprising…)