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Billionaire Elon Musk once again publicly criticized trade adviser Peter Navarro, widely seen as one of the top architects of President Donald Trump's tariff plan on his X account.
Musk, 53, a staunch supporter of Trump who was initially put in charge to lead his newly launched Department of Government Efficiency, referred to Navarro as a "moron" who's "dumber than a sack of bricks" while responding to the trade adviser's suggestion that he was "not a car manufacturer" but "a car assembler" during an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday (April 7).
“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk wrote on X, before adding, “Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks" in a separate post.
Musk previously bashed Navarro after the stock market crash that led to $11 billion of his net worth being lost.
“A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing. Results in the ego/brains>>1 problem,” Musk wrote on Saturday in response to another user touting Navarro's explanations of the tariffs on his X account.
Another X user argued that Navarro was "correct," which led to Musk responding that the trade adviser "ain't built s**t."
Last Wednesday (April 2), Trump announced that the U.S. would impose trade barriers on American exports as part of sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs on other countries, which he dubbed "Liberation Day."
"For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far. ... Foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream," Trump said via Yahoo! News.
"But it is not going to happen anymore," he continued. "Reciprocal — that means they do it to us, and we do it to them. Very simple. Can't get any simpler than that."
The United States stock market experienced a significant downturn as the tariffs and trade wars were initiated, seeing the largest decline since the 2020 stock market crash influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic during Trump's first of two non-consecutive presidential terms.