Odaily Planet Daily News This past weekend, when Elon Musk posted a series of posts on social media criticizing the tough tariff plan promoted by one of President Trump’s main White House advisers, he actually bypassed the official and appealed directly to Trump himself. According to two people familiar with the matter (they asked to remain anonymous because of private conversations), Musk’s intervention has not yet been effective. However, Trump also expressed an open attitude to negotiate on some policy content.
At the same time, Musk uploaded a video of the late conservative economist Milton Friedman on the X platform. In the video, Friedman emphasized the benefits of international trade cooperation, calling it "the impersonal operation of prices", and analyzed the global sources of various raw materials for an ordinary wooden pencil as an example. (Washington Post)