Peter Navarro

Peter Navarro holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He is one of only three senior White House officials to serve with Donald Trump from the 2016 campaign to the end of President Trump’s first term.

Mr. Navarro was the West Wing’s chief China Hawk and manufacturing czar. He served as Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy and, during the pandemic, Defense Production Act Policy Coordinator.

His Communist China trilogy includes The Coming China Wars (2006), Death By China (2011), and Crouching Tiger (2015). His White House memoirs include In Trump Time and Taking Back Trump’s America. His top-rated Taking Back Trump’s America podcast appears on Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts. Sign up for his substack at http://peternavarro.substack.com. He can be reached at takingbacktrumpsamerica@gmail.com.

Columns by Peter Navarro

Trump in, Ronna out: The path to victory in 2024 presidential election

The Republican Party must immediately unite around Donald Trump as its presidential candidate. Published November 14, 2023

UAW suicide pact with Detroit Three will mean higher costs, lower profits, overseas manufacturing

The smashmouth victory of the United Auto Workers over GM, Ford and Stellantis conjures up two Wall Street cliches: "Don't confuse brains with a bull market," and "pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered." Published November 7, 2023

‘Bidenomics’ mauls U.S. economy

Last week, the Commerce Department reported white-hot 4.9% third-quarter growth in gross domestic product. This should have been great news for U.S. stock markets. Published October 31, 2023

Lessons from Vietnam: Israel must destroy Gaza tunnels, Hamas

If there is any one lesson from America's first lost war -- the Vietnam War -- it is that tunnels can play a pivotal role. Published October 24, 2023

Biden’s march to energy subservience threatens our economy, national security

In just 1,000 days, Green New Dealer in Chief Joe Biden has turned America's strategic energy dominance into a strategic energy subservience that now gravely threatens our economic and national security. Published October 17, 2023

Thelma and Louise and the next House speaker

Whom will House Republicans choose as their next speaker? Will that speaker demand meaningful debt reduction as a condition of raising the debt limit? These imminent decisions are ineluctably intertwined. Published October 10, 2023

Stop the crucifixion of Mike Lindell

The crucifixion of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell by "woke" corporatists represents a new and dangerous form of uncivil warfare that threatens to further divide our nation even as it desecrates the First Amendment. Published October 3, 2023

‘Bidenomics’ fiscal shock: Managing America’s staggering debt

The debate over a debt limit deal now raging in Congress offers the last possible exit ramp for future American prosperity. Published September 26, 2023

Trump guilty until proven innocent: Lessons from a D.C. courtroom

What can former President Donald Trump learn from my conviction for a crime I never should have been prosecuted for? Published September 19, 2023

Huawei takes a big bite out of Tim Cook’s rotten Apple

China's national telecom champion, Huawei, is also Beijing's most accomplished intellectual property thief. Today, Huawei is also the tip of a Chinese spear about to skewer Apple and its CEO, Tim Cook. Published September 12, 2023

Coming to a Supreme Court near you: Executive privilege on trial

This week, I go on trial for an alleged crime that no senior White House official has ever been charged with. Before the first juror is seated, I have been stripped of virtually every possible defense. Published September 5, 2023

Crippling costs and corrosive effects of Democrats’ lawfare on Trump and his advisers

Since Donald Trump's come-from-behind victory over the Clinton machine in 2016, Democrat strategists have waged unrelenting lawfare against the former president and his advisers. Published August 29, 2023

U.S. v. Garland, Smith, Willis and Bragg: The indictment a grand jury should return

Attorney General Merrick Garland, special prosecutor Jack Smith, Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, did knowingly combine, conspire, confederate and agree with co-conspirators known and unknown to the Grand Jury. Published August 22, 2023

Why Trump may tell debate host Fox News and RINO-infested RNC to go pound sand

To debate or not to debate in the first Republican presidential primary event on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee. That is the question former President Donald Trump will answer soon. Published August 15, 2023

Indict the Biden crime family, not Trump

President Biden's ultra-weaponized Department of Justice asserts that Donald Trump committed fraud for using the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to object to a stolen 2020 election. In fact, the act was created exactly for such a purpose. Published August 8, 2023