Trump tariffs: Elon Musk calls Peter Navarro ‘dumber than a sack of bricks’

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer cited the ongoing feud between Navarro and Musk as he argued for the president to “immediately reverse his reckless trade war.”

“The chaos within the Trump administration was shown a few minutes ago when Elon Musk called Peter Navarro, the chief architect of these tariffs, a moron,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor.

“That’s Musk’s word. He called him a moron,” Schumer said, “Their plan is so crazy, so controversial, that this administration cannot get its act together with them, calling names about each other, to--against one one another, about this tariff plan.”

“Donald Trump should immediately reverse his reckless trade war,” said Schumer. “He should halt his tariff tax at once, and he should start focusing more on America’s actual trade adversaries like China, instead of picking a fight with the entire world and causing chaos and steering us towards a recession in the process.”

— Dan Mangan