White House trade adviser Peter Navarro demanded that tech billionaire Elon Musk remove anonymous users 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 said in a Monday post online. “No more anonymous 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 fight back. Physician, heal itself. Elon, heal X.”
Navarro, who also tangled with Musk earlier this year over President Trump’s tariff agenda, made a similar demand while appearing Monday on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
“And I’ll tell you, Piers, here’s what should be done on X and Facebook and everywhere else. No more anonymity,” he told Morgan. “No more hiding behind the mask 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 came in response to Musk’s post, where the billionaire wrote, “We must fight back or be murdered.”
Navarro’s suggestion has prompted pushback online, including from at least one Republican senator.
“Careful @elonmusk – I think he might want to slap a tariff on you or something,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Monday evening on X.
