US President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk are currently in conflict over tariffs.
Last month, Trump announced a 20% tariff on goods from the European Union, which Musk openly disagreed with. This week, Musk, the world’s richest man from South Africa, advised the US President to consider implementing a “zero-tariff situation” between Europe and the United States.
Since the announcement of the tariffs, Tesla, Musk’s company, has experienced a significant decline in quarterly sales, likely due to a backlash against Musk’s role as a Trump adviser.
“I hope that the United States and Europe can establish a close partnership. There is an alliance already but I’m hopeful that they can be very close relationship with America and Europe,” Musk said in a video-link interviewwith Matteo Salvini.
“There should be more freedom of people to move between Europe and North America if they wish to work in Europe or America, they should be allowed to do so, so that has been my advice to the president,” he said.
Trump not listening to Musk’s advice on tariffs
Trump, however, is not backing down and insists on imposing tariffs on countries, especially Europe.
“I don’t want anything to go down but sometimes, you have to take medicine to fix something,” he said.
“Europe has treated us badly, we put a big tariff on Europe. They are coming to the table; they want to talk, but there’s no talk unless they pay us a lot of money on a yearly basis. They have taken a lot of our wealth away and we are not going to allow it to happen.”
It remains to be seen if Trump and Musk can remain allies after the Tesla owner slammed the US president’s administation senior counselor Peter Navarro for championing the tariffs.
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