‘Truly A Moron’: Elon Musk Puts Key Trump Official On Blast After He Goes After Tesla

Elon Musk torched Peter Navarro, President Donald Trump’s trade advisor, in an X post Tuesday after Navarro dismissed the Tesla CEO as a glorified “car assembler” in a CNBC interview.

The spat erupted as Navarro criticized Musk’s reliance on foreign parts, saying the White House preferred American-made tires, transmissions and engines over what he called Tesla’s overseas-sourced battery and electronics supply chain. Musk, who leads the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), responded by calling Navarro “dumber than a sack of bricks” and “a moron” on his social media platform.

“When it comes to tariffs and trade, 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,” Navarro said on CNBC. “In many cases, if you go to his Texas plant, a good part of the engines he gets, which in the EV case are the batteries, come from Japan and come from China. The electronics come from Taiwan. The tires — 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 wrote in reply.

In another reply, Musk insisted “Tesla has the most American-made cars,” linking to a Kelley Blue Book study echoing this claim. The world’s richest man then called Navarro “dumber than a sack of bricks” and tagged his X account. He also alerted @IfindRetards, or “Retard Finder,” an account whose stated purpose is to “find retards and their posts on X.”