Inside Politics With Dana Bash: Musk-Navarro Feud Still Going As Tesla Founder Calls Trade Adviser a ‘Moron’

"A dispute appears to have escalated between two of President Donald Trump’s top advisers over the wisdom of the new tariffs the president has applied to dozens of countries. Elon Musk, the billionaire who has become Trump’s most powerful adviser, has criticized the tariffs and lashed out against trade adviser Peter Navarro, after Navarro dismissed the Tesla founder as a “car assembler.” 

Source:CNN with a look at the oligarch versus the convicted felon. This is a battle that Elon Musk can actually win.

From CNN

Elon Musk on his Trump Administration colleague Peter Navarro: 

"Peter Navarro “is truly a moron” and that he’s “dumber than a sack of bricks”

From Shelby Talcott

If you think about it, Elon Musk could've been harder on Peter Navarro than he was and I'll give you a few examples: 

"What does a convicted felon know about economic policy anyway: 

What does he know about prices in this country, other than what food and clothing costs at his prison commissary? 

If Peter Navarro is so smart, how come he got caught, convicted, and landed in prison? Good thing for him, the 2024 RNC started the day he got out of prison, otherwise he would've had to watch it in the prison day room and wonder if he would even survived the experience. 

When has Peter Navarro ever had a job in his life where he wasn't working for Donald Trump? The President probably only hired him because he feels sorry for the poor schmuck, who can't get a good job anywhere else, because he's a convicted felon. And he didn't want to embarrass Navarro by having him take his next order for a Diet Coke, quarter pounder, with fries,  at a local McDonald's." 

(Mr. President, you want fries with that? Yes, Peter. And please keep your voice down so no one here figures out that we know each other.)

Just for the record: I'm not saying that Elon Musk said any of these things about Peter Navarro... publicly.

As James Carville told CNN host Michael Smerconish 10 days ago on his CNN show: 

"Well, what tense are we in? Is it collapsing or has it collapsed? That's the only argument to have.

And I was wrong. I said, Memorial Day. It's before April Fool's day which the Trump administration should make a national holiday because it's so accurately represents who they are. So, I'm not really -- no one -- do not argue with me.

Look at what's happening in the markets. We look at what happened on Signal-gate. We look at what's happening all the way, all around us. You know, treating measles with apricot pits or something like that. I think the thing is collapsed.

But I'll -- I'll go to you. Let's take the middle ground here and say, it's collapsing. And I'll meet you halfway. But that's about all I can do... 

From The New Democrat

So this little public spat between Donald Trump's chief advisor on gutting the U.S. Government and his chief MAGA trade advisor Peter Navarro, is what happens when things are really bad in the administration. 

The Trump Administration has 1 side that are so dedicated to the President (or in Peter Navarro's case: worried about losing the only good job that they can get right now) versus people who sort of see the bigger picture, which is the economy and markets are collapsing because of what the administration is doing. And they want the President to change course before it will hurt their own pocketbooks and the pocketbooks and political books of their party. 

And we're in the new info age which is dominated by social media. And this is not the 1970s where if you had a bad story about your own team, you just leak it to a Washington reporter that you trust. This is the 21st Century where if you have something bad to say about a member of your own team, you can do that on social media. 

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