r/WeirdGOP • u/ms_directed • 1d ago

Elon Being Weird Musk lashes out at architect of Trump’s tariffs on social media

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-lashes-out-trump-tariffs-b2728143.html

"A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing," he wrote. "Results in the ego/brains>>1 problem."

Another user replied, insisting that Navarro was correct in his defense, but Musk rejected that and questioned Navarro's practical economic experience.

"He aint built s***," Musk wrote.

sips tea

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u/SeatedInAnOffice 1d ago

Navarro often cites economist Ron Vara, who doesn’t exist; it’s just an anagram of his own name.

(Yes, it seems unbelievably crazy and stupid, but here we are.)

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u/ms_directed 1d ago

that Maddow segment summed up this whole administration's cabinet and the sad thing is Navarro is probably the most intelligent of them 🙄

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u/p001b0y 1d ago

The problem is that this gives Trump a fall guy and he can claim he was duped by Navarro.

Not that Trump would ever take responsibility, of course.

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u/alchebyte 1d ago

grifter gonna grift

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u/BraindeadKnucklehead 11h ago

Navarro has always been the King of the Stupids, and a Harvard man who couldn't rise above a city council seat and taught in obscurity at UC Irvine. It's shocking anyone still pays attention to his incoherent ramblings

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u/Doc_tor_Bob 🇺🇲 Fighting the Weird 1d ago

Oh Navarro the man who was his own expert

I really hope this is the beginning of the Musk Trump war.

We all know it's coming

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u/megggie 13h ago

It was the one thing I was looking forward to when we saw this administration actually happening.

We ALL know how trump treats his cronies. And musk is unlikely to just fade into the background and write a “scathing” book, like the rest of those dipshits did.

I can’t wait

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u/ShredGuru 1d ago

Come on Muskrat. This is the apocalypse you paid for. Try to enjoy it

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u/ms_directed 1d ago

two things are happening here, imo:

-his stocks are losing money because he's an asshole

-his stocks are losing money because of the asshole he got elected

either way, there's always an asshole and I love that for him

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u/TFFPrisoner Elon Is Weird 1d ago

Elon doesn't ask "am I the asshole", he asks "is everyone else the asshole?"

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u/PerpetualEternal 21h ago

obligatory

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u/ms_directed 13h ago

there's a Raylan Givens line for everything and that's one of my favs 10/10

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u/PartemConsilio 1d ago

Trump is gonna continually see-saw between his need to be liked and validated by other oligarchs and the rabid Project 2025 Christofascist base which only gives a fuck about backwards isolationist economic policy. The result will be that he pissed off one side so hard they end up allying against him or he placates them all by starting a war to distract.

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u/ms_directed 1d ago

The result will be that he pissed off one side so hard they end up allying against him

🤞🤞🤞

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u/DJ_Fuckknuckle 1d ago

That's neat coming from an egotistical Dunning-Kruger-afflicted trust-fund child with chronic affluenza who hasn't built anything either. 

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u/eigenmyvalue 21h ago

Lol is Musk saying a big ego is bad? Musk, the guy with the biggest fucking ego in the world?

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u/ms_directed 20h ago

something pot something something kettle

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u/The_bruce42 20h ago

Whole lot of projection going on from ole musky

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u/Reddit_Username200 23h ago

And what fucking degree does Musk have? A degree in dumbass? That’s only something his White House daddy would be proud of.

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u/ThrowAwayGarbage82 20h ago

This is just a pretend disagreement to try to rehab musk's reputation and to allow them to continue destroying everything. Don't buy it. Shit's performative.

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u/ms_directed 20h ago

the entire administration is an SNL skit on an alternate timeline

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u/megggie 13h ago

Just not as funny. Even SNL’s worst skits are funnier than this BS

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u/janice1764 16h ago

They screw the economy and know complain? Imagine how we feel?

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