Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech CEO, Elon Musk, who has remained relatively quiet about US President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, said on Saturday he hopes to see a “free trade zone” between the US and Europe. Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni called Trump’s tariffs “wrong” and said it does not benefit either side. Musk, who has become a close adviser to Trump and defended the President’s agenda, had remained relatively quiet about the tariffs until Saturday. However, stock prices in his tech company, Tesla, have taken a drastic nose-dive following Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day.”AdvertisementIn a series of replies on his social media site X, Musk slammed White House aide Peter Navarro, a Harvard graduate who earned a PhD in economics and backed Trump’s tariff policies. “A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing,” Musk wrote.

Source: Huffington Post April 06, 2025 07:31 UTC