Breaking: Elon Musk escalated his war of words with Peter Navarro, a top trade advisor to President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, intensifying a rift within the administration over Trump’s aggressive tariff policies….Read More 👇

Elon Musk escalated his feud with President Donald Trump’s top trade advisor, Peter Navarro, on Tuesday, April 8, calling the economist a “moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks.”

Knewz.com has learned that Musk’s comments came after the White House trade advisor said in a statement on CNBC on Monday that the Tesla CEO was “not a car manufacturer” but “a car assembler.

During his recent appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Navarro said: “We all understand in the White House (and the American people understand) that Elon’s a car manufacturer. But he’s not a car manufacturer — He’s a car assembler.”

In many cases, if you go to his Texas plant, a good part of the engines that he gets (which in the EV case are the batteries) come from Japan and come from China. The electronics come from Taiwan,” Navarro added in his statement.

“What we want — and the difference is in our thinking and Elon’s on this — is that we want the tires made in Akron. We want the transmissions made in Indianapolis. We want the engines made in Flint and Saginaw. And we want the cars manufactured here,” he added.

Musk responded to the statement via a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, harshly criticizing Navarro.

“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk wrote in one of the posts.

The SpaceX founder further wrote, “Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks.”