Over the weekend and continuing Monday morning, billionaire Elon Musk has taken an apparent position against President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy that have caused chaos the economic markets.
In posts on X, the social media platform he owns, Musk has been critical of the Trump advisors that crafted the tariff strategy. In response to a video of Peter Navarro defending the tariff strategy on CNN, Musk blasted him on X, saying, “A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing. Results in the ego/brains>>1 problem.” Navarro, of course, got his degree from Harvard.
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Navarro has hit back against Musk, saying he “doesn’t understand” the issue, and opposes the strategy due to his own interests.
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