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Musk can't fight Trump on tariffs, so he hits Navarro with Xitter spray: "Truly a moron"

Carla Sinclair
Apr 08, 2025
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Image: Elon Musk; Andrew Harnik / Shutterstock.com

Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro clearly pushed Elon Musk's buttons yesterday when he told CNBC that the Tesla CEO was "not a car manufacturer," but, rather, "a car assembler." And the buttons set off a full-blown Xit-fit, in which Musk dumped on the economist with some foul words of his own.

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