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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As Karoline said at her presser today, “Boys will be boys”.
Navarro would best be pulled back and quiet this whole thing.
Oh, come on. Musk has the emotional maturity of a sea slug, and he’s known for calling everyone a retard and/or a pedo. He has more money than anyone else on the planet...nobody can tell him anything.
"Ron Vara" is an anagram of Navarro. Same letters but rearranged.
The truth is they are both brilliant geniuses and need to stop this p____ng contest.
I wish more people understood this.
Why can’t musk bash Navarro? This is Gen X, bro. We call it like we see it and we don’t hold back. Trump benefits greatly from this infighting. If Navarro can fight for himself, let him do so.
Sure.
One of the largest broker-dealers.
Nothing as yet.
But I’m hoping to negotiate a bonus.
Musk is wearing out his welcome.
Trump and Navarro will be proven right.
Musk is a globalist,cand I have been weary of him.
thats because the MAGA dumb Fks are throwing Musk under the buss to suck up to the Libs... If they didnt draw first blood, Musk would be silent as a mouse! Stop feeding this crap...
Navarro’s tariff “math formula” (used instead of straight reciprocal tariffs) did kinda suck. I tend to believe Musk’s evaluation of Navarro at this time.
Aside from being bone-headed (it was based on an Obama economist’s formula which was then incorrectly applied,) it was needlessly misleading because, as you say, it had nothing to do with reciprocity,
I hate to write “LOL”....but I did in truth laugh out loud!
High functioning not well controlled Aspbergers. Sometimes lacks impulse control. Leads to stupid things out of the mouth— in that sense not unlike mouthy alcoholics (who don’t have to be brilliant to make stupid Aspbergers generated comments in the first place. And likely much further down the income level than Musk.)
Navarro went to J6 jail and Trump does not forget. His work on the Fauci fraud “vaccine” is dead on target, and further his work on Election Fraud in the 2020 Election also—on target. Techie election thieves (the ones who aren’t friends with Trump bleed their BS to each other— mostly they are all LEFTies). Look how they attack Musk, a former best buddy of green new deal— now he’s a “Nazi”. Seriously these are lunatics.
Along with Lighthizer in the wings, Navarro yes-— he is.
35% foreign content is lower that US made vehicles in any case, and fwiw in re: Tesla. Tesla began as a battery development platform (with Panasonic iirc).
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