Peter Navarro, a senior trade adviser to Donald Trump and the architect of his tariff policy, says the president is aiming for “90 deals in 90 days” – referring to his 90-day tariff pause.
Appearing on Fox Business, Navarro said: “Americans should trust in Trump, the markets should trust in Trump, and not get these weak knees.”
Navarro, a long-time aide of Trump, was embroiled in a public spat with Elon Musk this week in a sign of divisions at the top of the White House.
Navarro had called Musk a “car assembler”, leading the Tesla boss to call him “dumber than a sack of bricks”.
US correspondent Mark Stone had his own run-in with Navarro over tariffs last month – watch the moment he told him ‘stop that crap’…