Odaily News When Elon Musk criticized the tough tariff plan pushed by one of President Trump's key White House advisers this past weekend in a series of social media posts, he actually went beyond the official and appealed directly to Trump himself. Musk's intervention has not yet been effective, according to two people familiar with the matter (who asked not to be named because the conversation was private). However, Trump has also expressed openness to negotiations on some policy elements.
At the same time, Musk uploaded a video of the late conservative economist Milton Friedman on the X platform, in which Friedman emphasized the benefits of international trade cooperation, calling it "the impersonal operation of prices," and used an ordinary wooden pencil as an example to analyze the global sources of its various raw materials. (Washington Post)