{"id":38680,"date":"2025-04-13T18:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/navarro-brushes-off-feud-with-elon-musk-boys-will-be-boys\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T18:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:45:44","slug":"navarro-brushes-off-feud-with-elon-musk-boys-will-be-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/navarro-brushes-off-feud-with-elon-musk-boys-will-be-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Navarro brushes off feud with Elon Musk: \u2018Boys will be boys\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro brushed off concerns about a feud between him and billionaire Elon Musk,<\/a> arguing the two administration advisors had a “great” relationship.<\/p>\n

“First of all, Elon and I are great. It\u2019s not an issue,” Navarro said during an appearance on NBC News\u2019 “Meet the Press” on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The comments come after Navarro and Musk got tangled in a public war of words last week after Navarro said in an interview that Musk\u2019s Tesla<\/a> is more of a “car assembler” than “car manufacturer” that relies on parts from other countries.<\/p>\n

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“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 \u2013 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 that he gets (which in the EV case are the batteries) come from Japan and come from China. The electronics come from Taiwan.”<\/p>\n

The point seemingly didn\u2019t sit well with Musk, who took to X to defend his auto company.<\/p>\n

“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk said.<\/p>\n

“Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks,” Musk added in a subsequent post.<\/p>\n

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But Navarro downplayed the public war of words Sunday, praising Musk\u2019s contributions to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

“Everything\u2019s fine with Elon,” Navarro said. “And look, Elon is doing a very good job with his team, with waste, fraud and abuse. That\u2019s a tremendous contribution to America. And no man doing that kind of thing should be subject to having his cars firebombed by crazies.”<\/p>\n

The White House has also downplayed concerns between them, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt arguing the feud shows that President Donald Trump<\/a> is willing to hear vastly different views at the highest level.<\/p>\n

“These are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade and tariffs. Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue,” she said during a press briefing last week. “You guys should all be very grateful that we have the most transparent administration in history.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro brushed off concerns about a feud between him and billionaire Elon Musk, arguing the two administration advisors had a “great” relationship. “First of all, Elon and I are great. It\u2019s not an issue,” Navarro said during an appearance on NBC News\u2019 “Meet the Press” on Sunday. The comments come … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}