{"id":277154,"date":"2025-04-08T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/elon-musk-labels-white-house-advisor-moron-over-tesla-comment\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:34:12","slug":"elon-musk-labels-white-house-advisor-moron-over-tesla-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/elon-musk-labels-white-house-advisor-moron-over-tesla-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk labels White House advisor ‘moron’ over Tesla comment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk has called President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, a “moron” over comments he made about his electric vehicle firm, Tesla.<\/p>\n

Musk – who is also a member of the Trump administration – also said Navarro was “dumber than a sack of bricks” in posts on his social media platform X.<\/p>\n

It was in response to an interview Navarro gave in which he described Tesla as a “car assembler”, rather than a manufacturer, because of its use of foreign-made parts.<\/p>\n

Navarro was being interviewed about Trump’s tariff policy and said he wanted to see such parts made in the US in the future instead.<\/p>\n

Musk said the claims were “demonstrably false.”<\/p>\n

The BBC has asked the White House for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump has in part justified his global wave of tariffs by saying he wants to revive manufacturing in the US. <\/p>\n

This is an argument Navarro was expanding on during an appearance on CNBC on Monday.<\/p>\n

“If you look at our auto industry, right, we’re in assembly line for German engines and transmissions right now”, he said.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to get to a place where America makes stuff again, real wages are going to be up, profits are going to be up”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Responding to the comments on Tuesday, Musk posted a link to a 2023 article by car valuation firm Kelley Blue Book, which cited Car.com findings that Tesla vehicles had the most parts produced in the US.<\/p>\n

“By any definition whatsoever, Tesla is the most vertically integrated auto manufacturer in America with the highest percentage of US content,” Musk wrote in a follow-up post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Technology industry analyst Dan Ives said on Sunday that the company was less exposed to tariffs than other US car makers such as GM, Ford, and Stellantis. <\/p>\n

But he too claimed the company sourced the majority of its parts from outside the US, highlighting China.<\/p>\n

“The tariffs in their current form will disrupt Tesla, the overall supply chain, and its global footprint which has been a clear advantage over the years vs. rising competitors like BYD,” he said.<\/p>\n

Trump’s tariffs have caused stock market falls around the world, as investors calculate it will result in firms making smaller profits.<\/p>\n

Musk – who is leading DOGE, which is tasked with cutting federal spending – warned in an X post on 27 March that even his company would not be immune from tariff disruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another Trump backer, the billionaire fund manager Bill Ackman, has called for a pause on the tariffs to stave off what he called “major global economic disruption.”<\/p>\n

In a post on X, he said the current plans would do “unnecessary harm.”<\/p>\n

Navarro is considered an ultra-Trump loyalist after being jailed for ignoring a subpoena <\/a>from a House committee investigating alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. <\/p>\n

He is also thought to be one of the main architects of Trump’s tariff policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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