Discharges of customs policy to the US President and his advisor Elon Musk? The tech billionaire lets his feud escalate with public insults with the architect of Donald Trump’s customs circuit-and thus breaks out his displeasure with Trump’s approach.
Peter Navarro is “really an idiot” and “stupid than a sack of brick”, wrote Musk in a post
On his online platform X. It is another sign that the high import duties ensure cracks in the ratio of the US president and his consultant. The 75-year-old Navarro is considered the driving force behind the hard protectionist trade policy of Trump.
Navarro had previously suggested that Musk was dissatisfied with the high import tariffs, since the Tesla group he led was dependent on the import of favorable parts for its electric cars.
Navarro’s assertion caused a special anger from Musk that Tesla was actually not a car manufacturer, but only assembles the vehicles from foreign supplies. “He wants the cheap foreign components,” said Navarro on Monday in the US broadcaster CNBC. Musk countered that Tesla has the highest proportion of US components in his cars.
In the White House, you are trying to gloss over the public tirades. Trump’s most transparent in US history is, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt claimed in an interview with CNBC. “We have our public disagreements.”
Instead of steering in the dispute, Musk put on to X in a post: He wanted to apologize for “Peter Retarrdo” (such as: the mentally behind Peter) to be düm than a sack of bricks, wrote the multimillionaire. “It was so unfair to the bricks.”
Musk asked Trump to weaken import duties
The “Washington Post” had previously reported that Musk tried unsuccessfully at the weekend to persuade Trump to weaken the far -reaching import duties. The President threatened further tariffs of 50 percent on goods on Monday China to.
According to industry experts, Trump’s Zölle Tesla will hit less hard than classic US car manufacturers. These are more dependent on components from different countries and sometimes also led finished cars to the USA a. A cooling of consumer expenses would also hit Tesla.