Elon Musk, one of President Donald Trump’s greatest supporters, locked horns with Trump’s best sales advisor Peter Navarro.
“A doctorate in Harvard Econ is a bad thing, not a good thing,” said Tesla and SpaceX CEO about Navarro’s academic qualifications in a post on Saturday.
“Results in the ego / brain >> 1 problem,” added Musk.
Navarro obtained his baccalaureate from Tufts University. He then went to Harvard, where he had a master’s degree in public administration and a doctorate in economics.
Musk criticized Navarro on days after Trump imposed reciprocal prices on more than 180 countries. Trump said on Wednesday that the prices, which start at a 10%reference rate, would help “make America again rich” by bringing manufacturing to the United States.
Navarro, Trump’s main advisor for trade and manufacturing, has taken a pro-ta-tail position.
Navarro responded to Musk’s Broadside in a Sunday interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” by Fox News.
“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,” said Navarro, referring to the work of Musk with the Doge of the White House.
“And he simply protects his own interests as any businessman. We are more concerned with the creation of Cadillac with American engines, and that’s what it is about,” he said.
However, Navarro added that things are “good” with him and Musk and that there is no rift here “.
Before joining the first Trump administration in 2017, Navarro was professor of business school at the University of California in Irvine. The 75 -year -old man is one of the few officials that Trump that Trump was given to his second term.
Musk breaks with Trumpworld on trade and prices
Musk adopted a different opinion on the free trade and prices of Trump and his deputies.
The radical prices, announced what Trump called the “Liberation Day”, frightened investors and sparked a huge sale on the stock market. The S&P 500 is down by almost 14% over a year, while the NASDAQ composite is down 19% over a year.
Musk said on Saturday, when he attended a meeting with the Italian League party, that he would like to see a “zero-tail situation” and a “free trade area” between Europe and the United States. Musk said he also advised the president to authorize more immigration between Europe and the United States.
“If people want to work in Europe or wish to work in North America, they should be allowed to do so, in my opinion,” said Musk.
Musk, a Major Trump Backer, is now heading for cost reduction efforts with the government’s ministry of efficiency, or DOGE.
And it seems that Trumpworld wishes to make him stay on the orbit of the president.
Thursday, vice-president JD Vance said in an interview with “Fox and Friends” of Fox News that Musk would remain adviser even after having finished his work with Doge.
Trump told journalists on Thursday that he expects him to expect Musk to leave his administration “in a few months”, but added that he wanted Musk to remain “as long as possible”.
The White House said in February that Musk worked for the administration as a “special government employee”. Special government employees cannot work for more than 130 days over a period of 365 days, according to federal law.
“Elon Musk and President Trump both publicly declared that the Elon was starting from the public service as an employee of the special government when her incredible work in Doge is finished,” the press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt in an X post wrote on Wednesday.
Musk and the White House did not respond to requests for comments from Business Insider.
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