Elon Musk has lambasted the architect of Donald Trump’s trade war in the most public display to date of a potential rift between the US president and the world’s richest man.
In an extraordinary broadside on Tuesday morning, Musk, a long-standing critic of tariffs, called trade tsar Peter Navarro a “moron”, and “dumber than a sack of bricks”, after the economist dismissed the Tesla boss in a TV interview as a “car assembler” and accused him of “protecting his own interests”.
The feud comes after days in which Musk, who spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars on Trump’s campaign and who runs the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), repeatedly hinted at his dissatisfaction with the White House’s trade policy.
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