USPS strikes deal with Elon Musk’s DOGE team
The U.S. Postal Service has signed a deal with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to provide assistance to the money-losing agency.
Reuters
Elon Musk called President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser Peter Navarro a “moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks” Tuesday as the tariff debate continues to expose rifts inside the Republican administration and among the president’s closest allies.
Musk was responding to comments Navarro made on CNBC claiming that Musk, who owns electric car company Tesla, is “not a car manufacturer – he’s a car assembler.”
“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,” Navarro said. “The electronics come from Taiwan… 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.”
“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk responded.
The billionaire Trump adviser, who has led efforts to slash federal agencies through the Department of Government Efficiency, added that “Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks.”
The comments are another example of the tensions among Trump’s senior advisors that are spilling into public view as the second-term president digs in on tariffs.
On Sunday billionaire Trump backer Bill Ackman wrote on social media that the tariffs would cause an “economic nuclear winter” and asked the president to pause them. Other high-profile Trump supporters such as Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy and high-profile podcast host Joe Rogan have raised concerns about the tariffs.