Elon Musk made a massive scanning on the sales advisor of President Donald Trump in the middle of the deepening of economic chaos caused by the radical prices of the “Liberation Day”.
In a Post from Saturday X, Tesla CEO has torn Peter Navarro as someone who “did not build” and shaded his Harvard doctorate in economics like “a bad thing, not a good thing”.
Musk, who openly expressed the disdain for the institutions of the Ivy League, commented: “Yup” under a quote from the American economist Thomas Sowell who said: “In each catastrophe in American history, there is always a man from Harvard in the middle.”
He also seemed to suggest that Navarro had an excess of self -confidence and a shortage of real intelligence, writing “results in the ego / brain >> 1 problem”.
An apparently omnipresent presence through American television, Navarro was one of Trump’s most loyal defenders in the face of the president’s controversial obsession to take into account the allies and adversaries who, according to them, have long taken the American markets for acquired at the perceived costs of companies and national jobs.
“The prices are the most common way to balance our trade deficit and thus stimulate economic growth and strengthen the US dollar,” Navarro in Semaor said in a prison interview last year, where he served a four -month sentence by refusing to cooperate with an investigation of January 6.
Maintaining this position has undoubtedly become more challenged in recent days, the new financial measures of Trump having already suffered billions of dollars on the world stock market. Three main American stock market indices – S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq – also recorded their biggest drops of a day on Friday since the 2020 epidemic of the COVVI -19 pandemic.
Navarro retaliated to Musk for his recent comments, noting that Tesla CEO’s manufacturing operations should take an important blow under the new pricing regime.
“Elon when he is in his Doge Lane is great, but we understand what is going on here,” said the sales advisor to Fox News in a Sunday interview. “Elon sells cars, he simply protects his own interests.”
He nevertheless had trouble denying everything with the founder of SpaceX.
“There is no flaw here. Look, Elon, he has X, he has a big microphone. We don’t mind say what he wants,” said Navarro. “The American people must understand that we understand what it is, and that’s good.”
During a videoconferencing with the Fête de la Ligue de Far Right Italian later on Saturday, Musk called for Europe and the United States to head towards a “zero-tail situation, effectively creating a free trade area”.
During his appearance, the founder of space X castigated European leaders of the perceived dangers of immigration and mass censorship while rushing against the recent conviction of the far -right leader of France, Marine Le Pen on the accusations of embezzlement, which have now prohibited him to run again for the French presidency.
But its comments on economic links with Europe, in particular its hopes that the United States and the EU could “establish a very close partnership” and hopes that “more freedom of people move between Europe and North America”, seems to put it firmly in contradiction with other members of the Cabinet of Trump, including the president himself.
High-ranking members of the new administration such as Vice-President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have repeatedly targeted European leaders for what they perceive as a sustained failure to align themselves on the day of the extreme right of Maga.
Vance, for his part, accused the EU’s “commissioners” of “running in the fear of your own voters” while supervising “the retirement of Europe of some of its most fundamental values” during a very controversial address at a Munich security conference earlier in February.
Although Hegseth may have proven a little more blood in his public statements, he nevertheless wrote to Vance that “I fully share your disgust of European free charm. It is pathetic ”in recently disclosed messages from a group of high -level white house signal cats.
Trump, on the other hand, has also pushed wild affirmations on Europe. He alleged that the EU had been created to “screw” the United States and “really took advantage of us” over the years. He also threatened to abandon the security guarantees provided by NATO for all European members of the Alliance who, according to him, do not gain their weight in terms of defense expenditure.
The way any apparent rift could deepen between Musk and the rest of the Maga team remains to be seen. However, as a source close to the administration said it to Semaor, it could be a battle “Elon will not win”.
