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Elon Musk has been Rambasting Donald Trump’s trade war architect in the most open exhibition until the potential cracking date between the US president and the world’s most wealthy people.
special side On Tuesday morning, an economist in a TV interview with a TV interview, dismissing Tesla boss as “car assembler” and accusing “protecting his interests,” and then Tsar Peter Navarro and “Trade Tar Peter or Tsar Peter Navarro I called the idiot. ”
This disagreement comes a few days after Musk, which spends more than $ 1 billion in Trump’s campaign and operates the so -called government efficiency (DOGE), repeatedly suggests complaints about the White House’s trade policy.
Musk, who actually appeared in a meeting hosted by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini during the weekend, said the United States and Europe hoped to create a free trade area effectively in zero -taryf.
Musk is also A video The free market advocate, Milton Friedman, in his social media platform X, who praises the virtue of the globalized economy by pouring out other parts and labor needed to create a single pencil.
On Monday, Musk’s brother Kimbal in Tesla and Space X’s board of directors said Trump’s tariffs were “structural and permanent tax on US consumers.”
After Trump lost greatly in the competition where the billionaire’s preferred candidate was a referendum for Doge’s cost reduction tactics last week, Musk’s political influence was under pressure before Trump revealed his tariffs last week.
The White House also confirmed that the government’s role of MUSK, which will continue to last 2026 last week, can end in a few weeks when the work with Doge is completed. Trump said at some point that the billionaire said, “I will return to his business with full time.”
Meanwhile, some of some musk companies seem to be suffering from their relationship with the president. Tesla’s shares have plunged more than 35 % since the end of the year due to concerns about the anger of the company’s anger against the company’s aggressive cost reduction mission in the government and the government’s aggressive cost reduction mission.
In a letter that was not mentioned to Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative last month, Tesla warned that the trade war could be a goal of retaliation tariffs and increased the cost of vehicle production in the United States.
The second largest market for electric vehicle companies is China, which has a large factory in Tesla. Musk opened a $ 200 million battery factory in this country just a few weeks ago.
Starlink, SPACEX’s satellite Internet service, also lost a contract with various governments as the tension between the United States and allies has been strengthened.
Musk did not immediately respond to the request. Navarro did not immediately respond to the question of MUSK’s intervention on US trade policy.
The White House instructed the Financial Times as a secretary of the reporter Karoline Leavitt.
Additional report from Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington
