Tesla in freefall and rows with Trump’s tariff adviser - can he survive? - IN FOCUS: Championed as Trump’s first buddy, the tech mogul has since watched Tesla sales plummet, seen billions knocked off its share price and is now in a very public spat with his boss’s chief trade adviser,

PETER NAVARRO ON ELON MUSK: “We all understand in the White House (and the American people understand) that Elon's a car manufacturer. But he's not a car manufacturer — He's a car assembler. In many cases, if you go to his Texas plant, a good part of the engines that he gets… pic.twitter.com/mkp1wRGcvX Musk flew into a furry.

Elon Musk has himself become a casualty of Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff rollout. The Tesla CEO’s net worth dipped below $300 billion for the first time since November, when Trump won re-election. Musk lost $31 billion across Thursday and Friday last week,