Musk directly appealed to Trump to revoke the new tariffs, but has not yet achieved results

ChainCatcher news, according to The Washington Post, over the past weekend, when Elon Musk repeatedly posted on social media criticizing a tough tariff plan pushed by one of President Trump's main White House advisors, he had actually bypassed this official and made a direct appeal to Trump himself.

According to two insiders (who requested anonymity due to the private nature of the conversations), Musk's intervention has not yet been effective. However, Trump has also expressed an openness to negotiating some aspects of the policy.

Meanwhile, Musk uploaded a video on the X platform featuring the late conservative economist Milton Friedman, 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.