Billionaire presidential adviser Elon Musk attacked White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as “dumber than a sack of bricks” as a fight over president Donald Trump’s tariff regime spilled onto social media on Tuesday.
In a flurry of posts on his social media platform X, Mr Musk called Mr Navarro “truly a moron” and mocked him for in the past citing the work of “Ron Vara” – a fictional expert whose name is an anagram of his own.
The missives were the latest volley in an increasingly bitter spat between the two that broke out after Mr Trump last week announced he was imposing a minimum 10 per cent tariff on most imports, with additional levies on about 60 countries that…