{"id":920778,"date":"2025-04-09T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=920778"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:13:12","slug":"tariff-war-inside-elon-musks-personal-appeal-to-donald-trump-and-why-it-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/09\/tariff-war-inside-elon-musks-personal-appeal-to-donald-trump-and-why-it-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariff war: Inside Elon Musk\u2019s personal appeal to Donald Trump &#8211; and why it failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is used to being heard. He leads some of the world\u2019s most high-profile companies and owns one of the most influential social media platforms: X. Musk, the world\u2019s richest person, is one of US President Donald Trump\u2019s most visible allies. This past weekend, Musk made personal pleas to Trump to halt a sweeping new round of tariffs. But Trump didn\u2019t budge.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Washington Post, Musk\u2019s behind-the-scenes intervention, confirmed by two sources familiar with the exchange, failed to stop the administration\u2019s latest salvo: A 10% baseline tariff on all US imports, with steeper duties on countries like China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is used to being heard. He leads some of the world\u2019s most high-profile companies and owns one of the most influential social media platforms: X. Musk, the world\u2019s richest person, is one of US President Donald Trump\u2019s most visible allies. This past weekend, Musk made personal pleas to Trump to halt a sweeping new round of tariffs. But Trump didn\u2019t budge. According to the Washington Post, Musk\u2019s behind-the-scenes intervention, confirmed by two sources familiar with the exchange, failed to stop the administration\u2019s latest salvo: A 10% baseline tariff on all US imports, with steeper duties on countries like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}