Billionaire Elon Musk escalated his attacks against White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday, calling him a “moron” who’s “dumber than a sack of bricks.”
Musk responded Tuesday to the trade adviser’s suggestion on CNBC Monday that the Tesla boss was “not a car manufacturer” but “a car assembler.”
“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk wrote on X, adding in a subsequent post: “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.”
Over the weekend, Musk had first taken swipes against Navarro, seemingly irked by President Trump’s onslaught of tariffs last week that Navarro played a pivotal role in crafting.
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Musk had chided Saturday that Navarro’s Harvard degree “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 interests.