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‘I’ve been called worse,’ says top trade adviser after Musk said he was a ‘moron’ and ‘dumber than a sack of bricks’

Peter Navarro, a top trade adviser to Donald Trump, said he and Elon Musk are “great” after the president’s multi-billionaire business adviser publicly called him “a moron” who was “dumber than a sack of bricks”.

“I’ve been called worse,” Navarro said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press in some of his most extensive remarks about the insults Musk directed at him days earlier. Praising Musk’s role in the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), Navarro added: “Everything’s fine with Elon.”

Navarro’s evident attempt to be magnanimous came after Musk criticized Trump’s proposals for global tariffs, which the president has since set at 10% on all countries, with some nations receiving higher trade levies.

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[–] SarcasticMan@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I saw him on Meet The Press this morning, and was screaming at the TV for her to ask him about Ron Varo. If I hosted that show, I wouldn't have talked about anything else.

We will never get out of this mess if the media can't do the most basic job of holding these people accountable. HitlerPig is taking trade and tariff advice from this guy, wrecking the complex global trade network, and this guy's most foundational source for his "knowledge" is a fictional character that is obviously an amagram of his own name. He's a total fraud, and yet the media goes on treating him, and every other criminal/ traitor/ imposter in this administration, as if they are actual political players. They aren't. The entire administration is staffed by frauds.

The media should boycott every one of these creeps, and not allow them on the airwaves. Let them struggle to spread their propaganda, and use their airwaves to promote the Resistance.