Musk spars with White House advisor Peter Navarro: ‘Dumber than a sack of bricks’

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk sparred connected societal media Tuesday with White House Senior Counselor Peter Navarro, aft Navarro said successful an interrogation Monday that Tesla was a car "assembler" alternatively than a manufacturer. 

"Tesla has the astir American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks," Musk said successful an X station connected Tuesday. 

"Navarro is genuinely a moron," Musk said successful a abstracted post. "What helium says present is demonstrably false." 

Both Navarro and Musk are 2 of Trump’s closest advisors, and Navarro antecedently served successful Trump's archetypal medication arsenic the manager of the White House National Trade Council and the manager of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. 

Musk is presently spearheading the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency inaugural to curb authorities discarded and spending arsenic a "special authorities employee." 

The enforcement oregon legislative branches are permitted to instrumentality connected impermanent employees to code short-term projects for up to 130 days successful a azygous 365-day period, which volition expire astatine the extremity of May for Musk. 

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