White House trade adviser Peter Navarro insisted Sunday that he and special government employee Elon Musk “are great” despite the billionaire’s insults against him in recent days. Last week Musk, 53, ripped into Navarro, 75, as “truly a moron” who’s “dumber than a sack of bricks,” expressing frustration over the trade adviser’s role in President Trump’s tariff push. “First of all, Elon and I are great. It’s not an issue,” Navarro told NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “I’ve been called worse. Everything’s fine with Elon. And look, Elon is doing a very good job with his team with waste, fraud and abuse. “That’s a tremendous contribution to America, and no man doing that kind of thing should be subject to having his cars firebombed by crazies.” However, Navarro, skirted a question from moderator Kristen Welker about whether Musk won an internal battle and persuaded Trump to pause sweeping reciprocal tariffs for 90 days. Musk’s public broadsides against Navarro began in the wake of Trump’s initial unveiling of the duty slate April 2. Several days after that announcement, the Tesla and SpaceX boss publicly suggested that Navarro’s Harvard University degrees are “a bad thing, not a good thing.” Initially, Navarro denied that there was a rift with Musk but dinged the DOGE guiding force for “protecting his own interests.” Later, he jabbed that Musk was “not a car manufacturer” but “a car assembler” — remarks that set off the billionaire into a fit of rhetorical rage. “Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk shot back on X. “Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks.” Musk also bashed Navarro in another X replay as “Peter Retard-o.” Musk has been a staunch skeptic of tariffs and expressed hope earlier this month that the US and European Union eliminate trade barriers between them. Navarro, by contrast, has been a staunch proponent of more duties to help combat what he has described as economic cheating by other nations. “The big problem we have are the non-tariff barriers, the currency manipulation, the dumping, the VAT taxes, all of that stuff that we have no defense against other than tariffs right now,” Navarro argued. Trump has imposed 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico in a bid to extract concessions from them on fentanyl dissemination into the US. The president has also slapped a 25% tariff on foreign automobiles and key components, as well as a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum. A 10% baseline tariff on virtually all other imports into the US remains in effect, as does a 125% reciprocal levy on China. On Friday, the Trump administration released a rule to exempt electronic devices from the 125% tariff, but the president has since clarified that a specialized tariff on such imports is coming. “The problem, interestingly for chips, because this is very complex stuff, is that we don’t buy a lot of chips, like in bags,” Navarro explained. “We buy them in products. So what Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is doing, as we speak, is an investigation of the chip supply chain.”