White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to play down the significance of an online spat between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Donald Trump's long-time adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday, April 8. In a CNBC interview, Mr Navarro had described Mr Musk as "not a car manufacturer" but a "car assembler" who obtains cheap vehicle parts from Tesla abroad. In response, the Tesla chief executive turned White House adviser wrote on X: “Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false.”

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