
<p>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 &#8220;moron&#8221; and &#8220;dumber than a sack of bricks.&#8221;</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>“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.”</p>



<p>“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.”</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>Musk also later bashed Navarro as “Peter Retard-o.”</p>



<p>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.”</p>



<p>“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.&#8221;</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>“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.”</p>



<p>“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.</p>



<p>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.</p>

Musk Says Peter Navarro is “Dumber Than a Sack of Bricks!”
