Top Trump administration officials are offering mixed messaging on the possibility of negotiating the president’s newly announced tariffs, framing the move as a necessary economic reset and downplaying severe market volatility and uncertainty.

Billionaire Elon Musk blasted President Donald Trump's senior trade advisor Peter Navarro as "truly a moron" and "dumber than a sack of bricks" on Tuesday in a growing rift over the US tariff policy that has rocked the world.

President Trump is boasting about the wheeling and dealing he's doing to cut deals on steep new tariffs. But for weeks, his aides have insisted that tariffs were not a bargaining chip.

For days, Trump officials have offered conflicting statements on whether countries can do anything to save themselves from the severe tariffs.

Administration officials and their allies have offered sometimes conflicting messages about the end goal of the tariffs and whether countries can negotiate new rates.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs are facing blowback from all corners – a market sell-off, foreign retaliation, anger from corporate America and skepticism from the Federal Reserve chairman and some allies in Congress.

A broader negotiation push is taking shaping a day before new US duties come fully into force, even as trade tensions between President Trump and China continue to escalate. On Tuesday, China vowed on Tuesday to "fight to the end" if the US brings in additional tariffs threatened by President Trump,

A former staffer to President Donald Trump Monday claimed that Peter Navarro—the man behind the tariff rollout—was intentionally left out of White House meetings because of his incompetence. “What I’m stunned by,