The Daily 202: Peter Navarro gets his 15 minutes of fame as the salesman for the Trump tariffs
Peter Navarro gets his 15 minutes of fame as the salesman for the Trump tariffs Peter Navarro speaks in the Oval Office during an executive order signing ceremony regarding trade last March. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: After being marginalized inside the White House over the past year, Peter K. Navarro has been taking a public victory lap to celebrate his success at persuading President Trump to announce tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. As rivals in the West Wing maneuver to defuse a looming trade war, thus far to no avail, Trump’s most protectionist adviser is celebrating what he sees as his greatest achievement. Navarro, the director of the White House’s Trade and Manufacturing Policy office, has become ubiquitous on television since last Thursday, in appearances that have been at turns triumphal and testy. His outspoken bluntness has quickly turned him into one of the...