- The White House on Tuesday seemingly dismissed any feuding between Elon Musk and Peter Navarro.
- "Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue," Karoline Leavitt said.
- Navarro has long been one of Trump's most high-profile economic advisors.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday seemingly brushed aside any concerns regarding the public fight between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and top Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro.
"These are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade and on tariffs," she said during a briefing at the White House. "Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue."
She also commented on the spat earlier on Tuesday. "Whatever. We are the most transparent administration in history, expressing our disagreements in public," Leavitt said.
The series of remarks made by the two men has heated up in recent days.
Musk in a Tuesday post on X responded to a video of Navarro making remarks on CNBC by writing: "Navarro is truly a moron."
He followed up by stating: "Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks."
Soon after, Musk, the face of the White House DOGE office, launched another attack on Navarro by referring to him as "Peter Retarrdo."
Navarro may have sparked Musk's wrath after he said during a Fox News interview on Sunday that the tech executive is great "when he's in his DOGE lane" but is looking out for his business interests when it comes to President Donald Trump's tariff policies.
Notably, Musk said during an interview last week that he'd like to see a "zero-tariff" system between the US and Europe.
