President Donald Trump’s prices have not only disrupted the world markets and old -fashioned geopolitical alliances – they also disrupted the relationship between two of his best advisers.
In the days that followed that Trump announced scanning prices – a reference rate of 10% on all countries and even higher prices for specific nations – the subsidiary of the White House Doge Elon Musk and the best Commercial Advisor Peter Navarro were locked in a ugly and public mouth. Navarro has advised Trump since his first mandate and is an ardent defender of the prices. Musk drew a number of anti-valiant comments in April-saying that there should be a “free trade area” between the United States and Europe, for example.
Here is a calendar of their several days spit, which evolves almost as quickly and spectacularly as the stock market.
Musk did not respond to the request for comments from Business Insider, and representatives of the White House directed BI to the statements of the press secretary Karoline Leavitt at a press conference.
“These are obviously two people who have very different opinions on trade and prices,” she said. “The boys will be boys and we will let their public fight continue.”
April 2
The so-called “Liberation Day”, Trump announced his pricing plan. The reference rate at 10% came into force on April 5 at 12:01 a.m., and higher rates entered on April 9.
Trump’s announcement initially caused a massive market sale and further fueled the fears of a recession among business leaders and everyday Americans.
April 5
Musk struck the academic history of Navarro in an article on X, writing: “A doctorate in Harvard Econ is a bad thing, not a good thing. Linking in the ego / brain >> 1 problem.”
Navarro obtained his baccalaureate from the University of Tuft, before going to Harvard for a master’s degree in public administration and a doctorate in economics.
April 6
Navarro composed the heat when he spoke to Fox News comments from Musk.
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“Listen, Elon, when he is in his Doge, he’s great. But we understand what’s going on here. We just have to understand. Elon sells cars,” he said.
Navarro said Tesla and Spacex CEO simply protects his own interests like any businessman. ” He noted, however, that things were “good” between the two men and that there is no flaw here “.
April 7
Early on Monday morning, Musk published a video on X of Milton Friedman, the economist and defender of the free market, praising the advantages of free trade. In the video, Friedman marvels from the production of the production of a pencil, the parts of which come from countries around the world.
In an interview with CNBC after the not so subtle post, Navarro made his criticisms further.
“He is not a car manufacturer. He is a car assembler in many cases,” he said about Musk. Navarro continued that Tesla get their own foreign nations.
April 8
The Jab Tesla did not go unnoticed.
Musk responded to a clip for the interview and wrote on X that “Navarro is really a moron”. In the event that it was not clear enough, he followed by saying that Tesla has “the most American cars. Navarro is more stupid than a bag of bricks”. (Tesla Model is at the top of the American manufacturing index of Cars.com.)
The richest man in the world responded again in the thread and referred to Ron Vara, the researcher invented and the Apparent Navarro alter-ego referenced in various books.
Not even 20 minutes later, Musk responded to another user and joked his spelling of the name of Navarro with a piece on the word R: “* Peter Retarrdo.”
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