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’s ‘Made in America’ order restores truth in labeling

President Trump's latest "Made in America" executive order takes direct aim at a global shell game in which foreign producers disguise, stretch and misrepresent where their goods come from. Published March 19, 2026

Trump right to revisit the 2020 elections

Washington is headed toward a constitutional collision over who controls America's elections. Published February 19, 2026

Trump has reversed the Biden-made manufacturing decline

As the Trump economy begins to boom even as inflation moderates, Democrats and the anti-Trump media are desperate for a spin that might discredit Trumponomics. Published February 10, 2026

New Oklahoma aluminum smelter proves Trump tariffs work

For nearly half a century, the United States failed to build a single new primary aluminum smelter. That drought is ending now. Published January 27, 2026

Inflation is contained, and the Fed should cut rates

The consumer price index report for December delivers three clear conclusions: Tariffs are not driving inflation, overall inflation is running near the Fed's target and the data supports a rate cut. Published January 13, 2026

Vanity Hit’s two-part, dangerous fiction factory

Taken together, parts one and two of Vanity Fair's Susie Wiles profile are not journalism. They are a case study in how legacy media manufactures menace. Published December 17, 2025

At the Supreme Court, a debate over whether tariffs are taxes

When the Supreme Court heard arguments on President Trump's emergency tariffs, plaintiffs opposed to the tariffs insisted, "Tariffs are taxes." That framing gets history and the law wrong. Published November 10, 2025

Amazon: The world’s biggest counterfeiter enabler

If you don't believe Amazon is a cesspool of counterfeiting and piracy, go to the website right now and type in the title of my new book, "I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To." Published September 30, 2025

Charlie Kirk’s legacy

Charles J. Kirk will go down in history as the most effective political organizer in presidential politics in the past 50 years. Published September 17, 2025

Why the Trump tariffs should prevail at the Supreme Court

The Federal Circuit's majority decision striking down President Trump's emergency tariffs is a poster child of weaponized partisan injustice. Published August 31, 2025

Trump’s two-term pharmaceutical plan to secure America’s medicines

America cannot be secure, prosperous or sovereign if our medicine cabinet depends on foreign adversaries. Published August 21, 2025

Trump closes the de minimis loophole

President Trump closed one of the biggest loopholes in American trade policy last week by eliminating the "de minimis rule" for the world. Published August 5, 2025

A Trumpian win versus China on EV batteries

On July 17, the Commerce Department significantly enhanced American economic and national security by imposing preliminary anti-dumping duties of up to 93.5% on Chinese imports of active anode material: high-purity graphite essential for lithium-ion batteries. Published July 24, 2025