US President Donald Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro went off the rails on Monday as his poll against India backfired on X, with the majority of users polling against his viewpoint.
In the poll, which Navarro began to ascertain if
Elon Musk's platform let what he called “Indian special interests” interfere in US debates, 74% users voted "Yes".
It also attracted Community Notes, clarifying that X's earlier notes were not influenced by any “Indian special interests” and were crowdsourced globally.
Navarro, as the poll progressed against him, flipped out, lamenting how "foreign interests use our social media to advance their agenda".
"India has largest population in the world & all it can do is manage few hundred thousand X propagandists to jerk around a poll? Too funny. America: look at how foreign interests use our social media to advance their agenda," Navarro, who has stepped up his anti-India rants, wrote on X.
One Community Note even accused him of hypocrisy and suggested he needed treatment, adding a list of mental hospitals for him to visit, while yet another said dismissing facts as “foreign lies” was a classic case of misinformation, which Navarro was already known for.
In his earlier post, Navarro had claimed that India’s high tariffs hurt American jobs and that New Delhi was buying Russian oil purely to profit. His post accused India of fuelling Russia’s war in Ukraine and criticised US media for not reporting the truth.
Soon after, X attached Community Notes to the post, pointing out that the US itself continues to import Russian uranium, fertilisers, and chemicals, while trade between the US and India had grown by 20 percent since Donald Trump took office. The note added that the European Union imported $25 billion worth of Russian energy in 2024 alone, showing Navarro’s claims as misleading.
Reacting to the note, Navarro accused Elon Musk of “letting propaganda into people’s posts” and called the correction “crap.” Musk directly responded, writing that on X, “the people decide the narrative” and that Community Notes were applied without exception.
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