The Trade Adviser Who Hates Trade
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Who is Peter Navarro?
Peter Navarro was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 15, 1949. He grew up in Florida and Maryland, and he was raised by his mother, a secretary, after her divorce from his father, a musician, according to Time magazine.
Peter Navarro was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 15, 1949. He grew up in Florida and Maryland, and he was raised by his mother, a secretary, after her divorce from his father, a musician, according to Time magazine.
Education and career
Navarro attended Tufts University on an academic scholarship and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972. After graduation, he served for three years in the Peace Corps in Thailand, where — his alma mater’s student newspaper The Tufts Daily wrote in an article — “he discovered his passion for public policy.”
Navarro then returned to the U.S. and enrolled at Harvard Kennedy School, where he received a master’s degree in public administration in 1979.
He continued his postgraduate studies at Harvard and earned a Ph.D. in economics.
- Navarro’s White House bio said that he “helped to reform the conventional arms transfer and unmanned aerial systems policies of the United States, and to expand foreign military sales to our Nation’s partners and allies.”
- The New York Times reported that Navarro was among the authors behind Project 2025, an initiative undertaken by Trump to reshape the federal government. Navarro’s writing focused on trade.
In early April 2025, Tesla (TSLA) CEO and White House adviser Elon Musk said in separate posts on his social media platform X that Navarro was “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks” in response to Navarro’s comments that Tesla was more of a car assembler than a car manufacturer because some important parts, such as batteries and electronics, were imported from Japan, China and Taiwan. Navarro replied that he has been called worse.
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