Elon Musk pulls the knives on the table with a harsh attack on Trump's counselor for trade: “It's worse than a potato bag”

Billionaire Elon Musk, who runs the Doge Department of the US Government, escalated the statements of statements with President Donald Trump on Tuesday for trade issues, saying that he is “worse than a potato bag,” CNBC reports.

“Tesla has the most American cars. Navarro is worse than a potato bag,” Musk wrote on the X, the social platform he owns, referring to Peter Navarro, the main trade adviser to President Trump.

“Navarro is really an idiot. What he says here is demonstrated false,” Musk added in a separate message.

The billionaire reacted to an affirmation made by Navarro in an interview with the CNBC financial television on Monday, according to which Musk is not a car manufacturer, but an “assembly” of cars whose parts come from abroad.

A few days before, Musk had written in a message that he later wiped off “X” that Navarro “not even built a shit.” In another post, Musk questioned the skills, writing: “A doctorate in the economy from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good one.”

These tensions in the administration of the US President appeared in the context in which the US press wrote last day that Musk would have urged Trump to give up the extensive customs taxes he announced on April 2.

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On Monday, Musk redistributed on his platform “X” a video recording that praises the benefits of free markets and complex supply chains. In that registration, the American economist Milton Friedman, who died almost 20 years ago, explained how different parts of the world contributed to the creation of a pencil.

On Saturday, Musk said that “Europe and the United States should move on to a zero customs duty, actually creating an area of ​​free exchange between Europe and North America. Also, more freedom for people to move between Europe and North America. If they want to work in Europe or work in America, it should be allowed for this.

Navarro, on the other hand, is known as a powerful supporter of customs duties as commercial policy measures.

Asked on Tuesday about the dispute between the two, the spokesman of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, indifferently treated the questions asked by journalists at a press conference.

“And what if,” Leavitt replied to journalist Eamon Javers from CNBC. “We are the most transparent administration in history. We express our disagreements in public,” he added.