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Musk calls Trump’s trade chief ‘dumber than a sack of bricks.’

Palace intrigue is back, baby! The feud started Saturday morning, when Elon Musk blasted trade advisor Peter Navarro on X (now deleted), saying “he ain’t built shit.” Navarro responded on Fox News that Musk “doesn’t understand” trade deficits, and dismissed him as a “car assembler.” That lead to Musk’s most recent retort, calling Navarro “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks.” Musk also defended Tesla as “the most American-made cars,” but has also acknowledged that the company is still exposed to tariffs through some of its imports.

There was always going to be tension between the Musk-led tech oligarchs and MAGA faithful in the Trump White House. And the tariffs are really doing a fantastic job exposing those rifts.

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