Posted on 04/08/2025 9:39:37 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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, 53, responded Tuesday to the trade adviser’s suggestion on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Monday that the Tesla boss was “not a car manufacturer” but “a car assembler,” pointing to the electric vehicle company’s importing of batteries and other key components to manufacture its cars.
“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk wrote on X, adding in a subsequent post in which he tagged the “Re—d Finder”: “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.”
In his screed against Navarro, Musk cited a Cars.com study of 338 cars in 2023 that concluded Tesla had four of the top five American-made cars. However, that study counted Canada as part of the US.
Musk also later bashed Navarro as “Peter Retardo.”
Over the weekend, Musk had first taken swipes against Navarro, 75, seemingly irked by President Trump’s onslaught of tariffs last week that Navarro played a pivotal role in crafting.
Musk had chided Saturday that Navarro’s Harvard education — he holds a master’s and Ph.D. from the Ivy League university — “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 interest.
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Musk should stay in his lane
Navarro belittled Musk's company with lies, so I think some lane encroachment is appropriate.
Elon Musk has a Phd in trolling tactics. Never disappoints. Peter Retardo...effing perfect!
Why? You lose your job at USAID? Is he finding too much corruption?
Besides, Elon was born in SA, grew up in Canada and the US. He is a US citizen.
Peter Navarro is great American and patriot. You , not so much.
Same here! All’s well that ends well, FRiend!
He’s all in on the dark enlightenment, techno-feudal, globalist empire.
No, thanks. He is also a South African and Canadian citizen and only spent a few years in Canada before settling here.
If I’m incorrect, shouldn’t Trump be very angry at Musk about it?
Yes, but he has a few more critical things to be focused on right now.
Sounds about right.
He's one of those who pushed the narrative that the Vice President has power to reject Electors and issue an order to send them back to the States. No such thing exists or has ever existed - every bit as authentic as "Ron Vara."
Nonetheless, his trade views don't have 0 merit - but it was far better when it was balanced with Larry Kudlow's expertise in the mix.
Lie.
Never saw that from Navarro. His writings on electoral fraud are dead on. Who DID say that was John Eastman? Maybe you should look that up. CA fwiw- took Eastman’s law license. In most other ways Eastman is a true Constitutional Scholar, hated by RINOS and their handmaidens of Demonrats.
Beyond easy to look up and verify. It was even posted here at the time.
Have a nice day.
Can we tune Musk down from 11 ...
Sometimes the Alpha males need to stop posturing and realize they are only there to "Win one for the Gipper."
There is and was never anything in the Constitution, the laws governing the process, or Congressional rules governing the process that allowed for that. Read it. No one making that argument ever cited where it exists...because it doesn’t.
Is that your position?
Naw- you and Eastman get together and chat. The creation of the Electoral College (Hamilton) in Federalist papers come to mind.
A takedown of a fraud like Navarro by someone like Musk is LONG past due.
“Trying to drive wedge in the MAGA team?”
You’re confusing me with Musk or Navarro.
Can you tell us who you work for?
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