Musk slams key Trump adviser Navarro as tariffs bite

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

4 hours ago


Elon Musk blasted top Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro overnight, calling out his education and lack of corporate credentials.

Why it matters: The two-day rout in the stock market this week, after Trump announced sweeping new tariffs backed by Navarro, cost Musk nearly $18 billion just on his Tesla stock.

Catch up quick: Friday morning, a user on Musk's social media platform X defended the controversial Navarro as a skilled voice on tariffs, citing his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard.

Musk, in a reply in the early hours of Saturday morning, disagreed.

"A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing," he wrote, suggesting it resulted in having more ego than brains.

Another user stepped in to defend Navarro as right on trade, to which Musk replied "He ain't built s--t."

For the record: The White House did not immediately reply to requests for comment on Musk's posts.

Besides Navarro, other top Trump officials with Harvard Ph.D.'s in economics include Council of Economic Advisers chair Stephen Miran.

Zoom out: Navarro has been ubiquitous on TV in recent days, defending Trump's tariff program and touting a possible $600 billion in new annual revenue.

Trump calls the tariffs an "economic revolution" and says big businesses will do well in the end because of pending tax cuts.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/05/musk-trump-tariffs-navarro-tesla

[Walleye]

1. Musk was too lazy to get any post graduate degree for himself

So of course, he will disparage anybody that has one

[hlthe2b]

3. True, but he is inherently more intelligent than most in TSF's realm. Many on the spectrum are...

Navarro, on the other hand, has had any intelligence he might have had blocked by ideology, idiocy, sycophancy, and malign intent. Not that Musk doesn't have an ample share of the latter as well.

[Walleye]

4. Navarro is a douche bag. But I will defend education.

[BootinUp]

5. Navaroo is a danger to humanity, currently. nt

[hlthe2b]

6. As one who acquired an additional two post-doctoral degrees, I obviously do too. But those who are educated but

fail to put that education to any use whatsoever--or to learn from that education--are not to be put on a pedestal.

Out of all my colleagues who have the most education, it is those who remain honestly curious and willing to learn--as well as to fight unsubstantiated dogma-- for whom I have the most respect.

None of the previous applies to Navarro, that is for sure--given he made up the economist who spewed fake theories and even published his "teachings" in his book. That is a level of dishonesty that all the degrees in the world can't obviate.

[Walleye]

8. It's a shame how many people have betrayed their own intellect for this monster

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Economists are statistical front men for political ideologies

That's why in Europe and the UK the field is known as political economy. They take the values of the politicians and make theories to sell to society. There's never a cost benefit analysis they can't tweak with assumptions and numbers to please their benefactors.

[yonder]

7. Sounds like Moe Slunk and Ron Vara

have whipped em out for a duel of dicks.

More please and . . . On Guard!

[GreenWave]

10. Meanwhile Mud Portland golfs with the audis.

[AZ8theist]

9. Let's not forget Navarro was a driver of the coup

His idiotic "Green Bay power sweep" plan was treason, pure and simple.

[louis-t]

11. Navarro is the guy that took everything he learned in college

and threw it out the window when he decided he was smarter and had a better idea.

[RussBLib]

12. "big business will do well in the end" says orange imbecile

...but only after they pay Trump his fee.

The rest of us can just suck it.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[marble falls]

13. I just can not wait til all the knives come out.

[WestMichRad]

14. Yup!