Billionaire Elon Musk escalated his assaults towards White Home commerce adviser Peter Navarro Tuesday, calling him a “moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks.”
Musk responded Tuesday to the commerce adviser’s suggestion on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Monday that the Tesla boss was “not a car manufacturer” however “a car assembler.”
“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk wrote on X, including in a subsequent submit: “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.”
Over the weekend, Musk had first taken swipes towards Navarro, seemingly irked by President Trump’s onslaught of tariffs final week that Navarro performed a pivotal function in crafting.
Musk had chided Saturday that Navarro’s Harvard diploma “is a bad thing, not a good thing,” prompting the commerce adviser to accuse the world’s richest man of making an attempt to guard his personal curiosity.
