Musk has directly called on Trump himself to lift the new tariffs, but it has not yet yielded results

BlockBeats News: On April 8th, according to The Washington Post, over 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 advisers, he had actually bypassed the official and directly appealed to Trump himself. According to two informed sources (who requested anonymity due to private conversations), Musk's intervention has not yet been effective. However, Trump also expressed an open attitude towards negotiating certain policy contents. At the same time, 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, calling it the "depersonalized operation of prices," and analyzed the global sources of its various raw materials using an ordinary wooden pencil as an example.