Musk labels Trump trade adviser ‘moron’ over Tesla comments

Elon Musk has called President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, a “moron” over comments he made about his electric vehicle firm, Tesla.

Musk – who is also a member of the Trump administration – also said Navarro was “dumber than a sack of bricks” in posts on his social media platform X.

It was in response to an interview Navarro gave in which he described Tesla as a “car assembler”, rather than a manufacturer, because of its use of foreign-made parts.

Navarro was...