Elon Musk Calls Trump Trade Advisor Peter Navarro 'Dumber Than Sack Of Bricks,' Defends Tesla As 'Most American-Made Cars'

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk escalated his public feud with Peter Navarro, a top trade adviser to President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, Musk called him “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks” on the social media platform X. 

The Details: Signs of a rift between Musk and Navarro first emerged this past weekend when Musk replied to a posted video of Navarro defending the administration's tariff calculations, suggesting that Navarro's Harvard economics PhD was a disadvantage. 

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On Tuesday morning, Musk responded to another video clip in which Navarro said that Tesla assembles EVs in Texas using mostly foreign-made ...