According to the Washington Post, as reported by Foresight News, during the past weekend, when Elon Musk repeatedly posted on social media criticizing the tough tariff plan pushed by one of President Trump's main White House advisors, he actually bypassed this official and directly appealed to Trump himself. According to two sources familiar with the matter (who requested anonymity due to private conversations), Musk's intervention has not yet been effective. However, Trump also indicated openness to negotiating certain policy details.

Meanwhile, 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, describing it as the "impersonal operation of prices" and using an ordinary wooden pencil as an example to analyze its global material sources.