Musk directly called on Trump to revoke the new tariffs, but has not yet achieved results.

[Elon Musk directly appealed to Trump to withdraw the new tariffs, but has not achieved results] On April 8, news reported by The Washington Post indicated that over the past weekend, when Elon Musk made a series of posts on social media criticizing the tough tariff plan promoted by one of President Trump’s main White House advisors, he had actually bypassed this official and made an appeal directly to Trump himself. According to two insiders (who requested anonymity due to the private nature of the discussions), Musk’s intervention has not yet been effective. However, Trump has also expressed an openness to negotiate certain policy aspects. 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, referring to it as “the impersonal operation of prices,” and analyzed the global sources of various raw materials using an ordinary wooden pencil as an example.