All posts tagged "Peter Navarro"

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro had a camera problem on Friday, and C-SPAN’s microphone caught him complaining about it.

“So, this s---head at the pool camera won’t turn on the camera,” Navarro said into his phone outside the West Wing. He was standing in front of a row of microphones. Looking particularly bewildered, he added, "What's the deal with that?"

Journalist Aaron Rupar posted the clip on X, where it has drawn more than 305,000 views....

Dr. Peter Navarro unleashed a tirade against U.S. Attorney and Trump ally Jeanine Pirro on Monday.

The Trump trade counselor was talking to right-wing strategist Steve Bannon during a segment of the MAGA influencer's "War Room" show on Real America's Voice. Both men refused to comply with a Jan. 6 committee subpoena and served four-month prison sentences in 2024.

"Do me a favor, Steve, when I'm on camera and you don't want to talk about something like Jeanine Pirro, never mention her friggin' name to me because that woman still refuses..." Navarro said....

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed this week during the Conservative Political Action Conference that President Donald Trump's administration has real fears about what will happen in 2028 if Democrats take back office.

The Department of Justice leader spoke to the audience during the event attended by conservatives and right-wing influencers in suburban Dallas on Thursday, describing why Trump's team was so concerned about potential prosecution for "unspecified offenses," The Daily Beast reported.

“Even in this administration, everybody’s afraid that the next administration, if we don’t win, we’re going to all be investigated and indicted,” Blanche said. “And why are they afraid? Because that’s exactly what happened during the last administration.”...

The Trump administration may continue to deny that they've been sending mixed messages on tariffs since "Liberation Day" back in April, but a timeline published by Forbes laid out in black and white the reality of President Donald Trump's erratic trade policy.

The timeline of "The 22 Times He's Changed His Mind On Tariffs" comes as Trump's latest action on steel and aluminum imports ballooned to 50% on Wednesday.

The timeline included comments from aides like Peter Navarro and Howard Lutnick claiming in televised interviews that Trump was “not going to back off” his tariffs. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declared "there would be no exemptions" to Trump's tariffs on foreign goods....

President Donald Trump's White House has become increasingly divided in record time, according to MSNBC's Steve Benen.

In a new piece for MaddowBlog, Benen wrote, "Throughout American history, there have been administrations with rival factions, but those divisions usually take time. On Team Trump, the cracks are bursting into view just three months after Inauguration Day."

Benen cited a recent Wall Street Journal report about Trump cabinet secretaries going to extraordinary lengths to subvert trade advisor Peter Navarro in order to convince Trump to pause his tariffs and allow the stock markets to rebound....

Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro claimed Thursday that he felt sorry for Elon Musk just days after the two engaged in a public war of words.

On Tuesday, Navarro referred to Musk as a "car assembler," not a manufacturer. Navarro was referring to the fact that many parts for Musk's Tesla electric vehicles are imported before they're assembled in Texas.

"Navarro is truly a moron," Musk wrote on X. "What he says here is demonstrably false." ...