{"id":39333,"date":"2025-04-21T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/peter-navarro-the-economist-who-has-outsmarted-elon-musk-and-has-the-ear-of-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T08:55:08","slug":"peter-navarro-the-economist-who-has-outsmarted-elon-musk-and-has-the-ear-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/peter-navarro-the-economist-who-has-outsmarted-elon-musk-and-has-the-ear-of-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Navarro: the economist who has outsmarted Elon Musk and has the ear of Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s chief trade adviser is intellectual driving force behind global tariffs and trade war with China<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> called him \u201cdumber than a sack of bricks\u201d but, in the raw contest for political power, Peter Navarro has outsmarted the billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>The tumult in global trade shows that for now it is the 75-year-old economist, not Musk, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s ear in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/21\/peter-navarro-the-economist-who-has-outsmarted-elon-musk-and-has-the-ear-of-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s chief trade adviser is intellectual driving force behind global tariffs and trade war with China Elon Musk called him \u201cdumber than a sack of bricks\u201d but, in the raw contest for political power, Peter Navarro has outsmarted the billionaire. The tumult in global trade shows that for now it is the 75-year-old economist, &#8230; <a title=\"Peter Navarro: the economist who has outsmarted Elon Musk and has the ear of Donald Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/peter-navarro-the-economist-who-has-outsmarted-elon-musk-and-has-the-ear-of-donald-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Peter Navarro: the economist who has outsmarted Elon Musk and has the ear of Donald Trump\">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-39333","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\/39333","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=39333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}