Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has been making unsuccessful personal appeals to President Trump not to go ahead with his punishing across-the-board tariff regime on cars and other goods, according to an 8 April 2025 report by The Washington Post. To do so, he had to go over the head of trade adviser Peter Navarro—the same official he had been publicly lambasting on his social media platform X.
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