White Home commerce adviser Peter Navarro demanded that tech billionaire Elon Musk take away nameless customers from X, calling the social platform a “cesspool.”
“My friend @ElonMusk. How about you start fighting back by cleaning up the cesspool otherwise known as X,” Navarro mentioned in a Monday put up on-line. “No extra nameless posts.”
“No more foreigners swarming your platform and polluting our political discourse. X has become a breeding ground and grooming Academy for the very dark forces,” he continued. “You wanna combat again. Doctor, heal itself. Elon, heal X.”
Navarro, who additionally tangled with Musk earlier this 12 months over President Trump’s tariff agenda, made the same demand whereas showing Monday on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
“And I’ll let you know, Piers, right here’s what ought to be performed on X and Fb and in all places else. No extra anonymity,” he told Morgan. “No extra hiding behind the masks of anonymity on social media.”
“If you won’t say something to somebody’s face in a civil setting, then you damn well shouldn’t be allowed to say it on X or Facebook or Instagram,” Navarro added.
His remarks got here in response to Musk’s put up, the place the billionaire wrote, “We must fight back or be murdered.”
Navarro’s suggestion has prompted pushback on-line, together with from not less than one Republican senator.
“Careful @elonmusk – I think he might want to slap a tariff on you or something,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) mentioned Monday night on X.
