{"id":18045,"date":"2025-04-07T22:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/can-musk-pull-trump-back-from-the-tariff-ledge\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T22:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:59:29","slug":"can-musk-pull-trump-back-from-the-tariff-ledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/can-musk-pull-trump-back-from-the-tariff-ledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Musk Pull Trump Back From the Tariff Ledge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Elon Musk is known for many things. Subtlety is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Musk shared a grainy <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1909169096391811304\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">two-minute video<\/a> at 4:59 a.m. Monday to his 218 million followers, his post contained no words, and yet the message was clear. It showed the free-market intellectual Milton Friedman, in a 1980 clip well known to economists, waxing poetic about free trade as he sketched out the international origins of the parts that form a pencil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Musk was expressing his discomfort with President Trump\u2019s imposition of draconian new tariffs. And yet one has to wonder what Musk hopes to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This is not a president known to brook much public criticism, after all. Try to imagine Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, subtweeting her boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And Musk repeatedly went out of his way to disagree with Trump over the weekend, suggesting he believes he is not subject to the same rules that govern others in the president\u2019s inner circle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Speaking by video on Saturday to an Italian far-right political conference, he said he hoped the United States and the European Union would <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/05\/us\/politics\/musk-eu-us-tariffs.html\" title=\"\">\u201cmove to a zero-tariff situation, effectively creating a free-trade zone.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And that came after Musk twice took shots on X at the administration trade hawk Peter Navarro: First, he ridiculed Navarro\u2019s Harvard Ph.D. in economics as \u201ca bad thing, not a good thing,\u201d suggesting it meant Navarro\u2019s ego exceeded his intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then, in case anyone had not caught his drift, Musk arguably added a line to Navarro\u2019s future obituary, saying he \u201cain\u2019t built\u201d anything, using an expletive for emphasis. (He later deleted the second insult.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I\u2019ve been covering the notoriously impulsive Musk for a while now. I don\u2019t see a cogent strategy at work in making public his frustrations with his boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This is not the first time Musk has been at odds with Trump since joining his team, and publicly so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the transition, Musk <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/13\/us\/politics\/musk-trump-transition-mar-a-lago.html\" title=\"\">endorsed Rick Scott<\/a> of Florida to be the Senate majority leader, getting ahead of Trump, who did not support Scott. Then Musk <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/16\/elon-musk-howard-lutnick-treasury-endorsement.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">endorsed Howard Lutnick<\/a> for Treasury secretary, which Trump ignored in choosing Scott Bessent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most prominently, Musk vocally defended the H-1B visa program against the more anti-immigrant, MAGA wing of the Republican Party, saying he would go to \u201cwar\u201d to defend the program, which is beloved by the tech industry. Trump eventually <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/elon-musk-vows-war-over-h-1b-visa-program-amid-rift-with-some-trump-supporters-2024-12-28\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sided with Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the early days of the Trump administration, Musk also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/22\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-trump-stargate-ai-announcement.html\" title=\"\">dissed a Trump artificial-intelligence manufacturing plan<\/a>. Trump gave him a pass for that one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So does Musk have some secret plan here to get Trump to walk away from the ledge?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Trump has espoused tariffs and protectionism for decades. Musk\u2019s online acting-out suggests he believes Trump\u2019s stance may be negotiable assuming enough pressure is applied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I have no doubt that Musk genuinely believes what he says about tariffs and trade. But it seems highly doubtful that a Milton Friedman video about a pencil will be able to change what Trump believes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-9w1fbe e6idgb70\">MEANWHILE on X<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2f2d9962\">He protests the protesters too much<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Musk is using his X account as a megaphone. My colleague Kate Conger looks at how he is responding on the site to protests against his government cost-cutting efforts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, Musk suggested in a series of posts that protesters had been paid to demonstrate against him, or had little idea about why they were protesting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In one, he responded to a headline from his favorite right-wing satirical website that said the protesters were demanding government waste, writing \u201cSeriously,\u201d and adding a face-palm emoji. In another, he wrote that people protesting against him were full of \u201cbitterness.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He also shared posts from other X users claiming that the protests were staged, and asked, \u201cWho are the key individuals funding this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The idea that someone is funding the opposition to him and his work has fascinated Musk in recent weeks. When protests cropped up at Tesla dealerships last month, he accused <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/04\/us\/politics\/george-soros-bragg-trump.html\" title=\"\">George Soros<\/a> and other Democratic donors of funding them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">These responses are characteristic of Musk, who often interprets disagreement with him as an attack. They also violate one of the internet\u2019s cardinal rules: Don\u2019t feed the trolls. Where other billionaires might ignore the criticism, Musk can\u2019t seem to stop himself from responding to it \u2014 and bringing it more attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">\u2014 <!-- -->Kate Conger<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-9w1fbe e6idgb70\">BY THE NUMBERS<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-247246b0\">$31 Billion<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That\u2019s about how much Musk <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-04-04\/billionaires-poised-to-lose-near-half-trillion-dollars-in-2-days\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">has lost<\/a> in net worth since Trump\u2019s tariff announcement, according to the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Billionaires Index<\/a>. Perhaps this will help make your 401(k) losses go down a bit easier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-9w1fbe e6idgb70\">you shouldn\u2019t miss<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4e5785ee\">How Trump helped Musk save Twitter, financially<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Musk bought Twitter for about $44 billion in 2022, he was said to have wildly overpaid for the beleaguered company. Musk agreed with the criticism, so much so that he tried to get out of the deal entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But a funny thing happened. The company, now called X, has rebounded somewhat. And, as Kate Conger explains, that\u2019s in large part because of Trump\u2019s election, which she says had a \u201chalo effect\u201d on the company. The company still has problems, but Kate reports that Trump\u2019s return to power has brought some advertisers back to the platform and made it newly relevant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Musk often has a way of somehow forging his own luck. It\u2019s not as if he saw this coming; Trump wasn\u2019t even an official candidate for president when Musk bought Twitter in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It does raise a fun hypothetical though, one that I\u2019ve thought about from time to time over the last few months: What would have happened to X, and to Musk, had Kamala Harris won in November?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Read Kate\u2019s piece <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/07\/technology\/elon-musk-x-trump.html\" title=\"\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/07\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-tariffs-trump.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is known for many things. 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