Elon Musk and Peter Navarro Clash Over Tesla's Role in Tariff Debate

Musk calls Trump adviser 'moron' in quarrel over Tesla

The South African-born billionaire's latest spat further fuelled rumours of his growing rift with Trump. Influential allies have also criticised the US president's tariffs.

According to the 'Washington Post', the tycoon asks for a change in economic strategy. On X, he shoots zero on the commercial consultant, who accused him of being an 'assembler of parts' produced elsewhere. According to two anonymous sources consulted by the Washington Post, over the weekend Elon Musk would have...

Musk calls Trump’s top trade adviser a ‘moron’ in car tariff tiff

After Elon Musk called one of President Donald Trump's top economic aides a "moron", the White House on Tuesday declared "boys will be boys".

Musk tried to dissuade Trump from tariffs.

Elon Musk slams Donald Trump's tariff tsar as a 'moron' who is 'dumber than a sack of bricks'

Elon Musk has hit out at US President Donald Trump’s tariff tsar, calling him a “moron” who is “dumber than a sack of bricks”.The billionaire slammed Peter Navarro, Trump’s senior counsellor for trade, after he called Musk merely a “car assembler” rather than a manufacturer. In a rant on his social media platform X, Musk dismissed Navarro’s accusations that he sought to use "cheap foreign parts" as "demonstrably false," asserting that Tesla "has…

Musk calls Trump aide Navarro 'dumber than a sack of bricks' in tariff spat

Billionaire Elon Musk blasted President Donald Trump's senior trade adviser Peter Navarro as "truly a moron" and "dumber than a sack of bricks" on Tuesday in a growing rift over the U.S. tariff policy that has rocked the world. The extraordinary public spat came after Navarro described the Tesla boss…