Even Elon knows Trump is batshit crazy on tariffs:
Over the weekend, as Elon Musk launched into a barrage of social media posts criticizing one of the lead White House advisers for President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff plan, Musk was going over that same official’s head — and making personal appeals to Trump.
The attempted intervention, confirmed by two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private talks, has not brought success so far; Trump threatened Monday to add new 50 percent tariffs on imports from China to go along with the 34 percent taxes he announced last week. (The president did signal he was open to negotiations on some aspects of his policy.) Musk, meanwhile,posted a video to X in which the late conservative economist Milton Friedman touted the benefits of international trade cooperation — “the impersonal operation of prices,” as he put it — breaking down the sources of the materials that go into a simple wooden pencil.
This is Trump’s one big idea. Even immigration was something he adopted when he decided to run for president not a personal crusade like tariffs. Elon’s playing with fire by disagreeing with Trump on this one, especially this:
In an interview with Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini over the weekend, Musk also said he would like to see a “free trade zone” between Europe and the United States: “At the end of the day, I hope it’s agreed that both Europe and the United States should move ideally, in my view, to a zero-tariff situation.”
Whoa. Doesn’t he understand that the EU was formed to rip off America? Is he unaware that they owe us BIGLY and will have to not only pay YUGE tariffs but will have to pay us back for all the years they failed to pay us what we deserve? He needs to have a chat with Dear Leader about all this.
I suspect that Musk’s stock price has him spooked particularly since it was already tanking even before this tariff debacle. But he’d better be careful. After screwing the pooch badly in Wisconsin last week Trump may not be in any mood to put up with him and his rude kid anymore. And if Musk knows anything by now, he should know that Trump will have no compunction about cancelling his SpaceX contracts in a New York minute. Who’s going to stop him?