Elon Musk called President Donald Trump’s commercial adviser Peter Navarro on his comments about Tesla, the electric vehicle company.
Musk, who is also a member of the Trump administration, said Navarro’s tasks on the social media platform X is “more stupid than the sack of bricks”.
In response to an interview that Navarro describes Tesla as a “automobile installer” instead of a manufacturer due to the use of foreign parts.
Navarro interviewed Trump’s tariff policy, and instead he wanted to see these pieces in the United States.
Musk said the allegations were “clearly wrong”.
BBC asked for a comment from the White House.
Trump justified the global tariff wave, saying that he wanted to revive production in the USA.
This is an argument that Navarro expanded during a view of CNBC on Monday.
“If you look at our automobile industry, we are currently on the assembly line for German engines and transmissions,” he said.
We will go to a place that “America does something again, real wages will rise, profits will rise”.
Responding to the comments made on Tuesday, Musk published a link to the 2023 article of Car valuation company Kelley Blue Book, indicating the Car.com findings that Tesla vehicles have the most parts produced in the USA.
“Due to any definition, Tesla is the most vertically integrated automatic manufacturer in the United States, which has the highest percentage of US content.” Musk He wrote in a follow -up post.
The technology industry analyst Dan IVS said on Sunday that the company has been subjected to fewer tariffs than other US car manufacturers such as GM, Ford and Stellantis.
However, he claimed most of the company from outside the US by emphasizing China.
“The tariffs in the existing forms will disrupt the global footprint, a general supply chain, Tesla, and an open advantage to rising opponents such as BYD for years.” He said.
Trump’s tariffs caused the stock exchanges to fall into the world because they calculate that companies would make smaller profits because they calculate investors.
Musk – Leading to Doge, who was assigned to cut federal expenditures – was warned in an X article on March 27 That even the company will not be exempt from tariff deduction.
Bill Ackman, a billionaire funding manager who supports another Trump, called for a pause in tariffs to eliminate what he called “great global economic deterioration.”
In an article in X, he said that existing plans would be “unnecessary damage”.
Navarro is considered a loyal person ultra Trump after being found A court was imprisoned for ignoring the subpoena From a Assembly Committee investigating the efforts to overthrow the 2020 elections.
It is also thought to be one of the main architects of Trump’s tariff policy.
