White House trade adviser Peter Navarro and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have had a time of it over the past week. Both have openly shared biting comments toward, and about, each other.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during a Tuesday afternoon briefing that the ongoing exchange should be considered nothing more than the administration being “transparent.”

While the comments have seemingly been aimed at each other’s thoughts on tariffs and trade strategy employed by President Donald Trump and the administration, some of the comments have been sharp. In one of the latest darts, Musk termed Navarro a “moron” and said he was “dumber than a sack of bricks.”

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