Elon Musk took a swipe at top trade adviser Peter Navarro in a post on his social media platform X on Saturday over his his Harvard University degree.
Navarro is one of President Donald Trump‘s senior counselors for trade and manufacturing.
“A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing,” Musk wrote. “Results in the ego/brains>>1 problem.” Navarro earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1979 and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics in 1986.
Musk was commenting on a video of Navarro talking about Trump’s sweeping tariffs on CNN.
In the video, Navarro says the tariffs are to solve the trade deficits the U.S. has with other countries because the deficits
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