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Peter Navarro

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 and America's steel industry illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Biden’s silent war on America’s steel industry

The United Steelworkers Union has received "assurances" from President Biden that he will support its members in their fight against a potential takeover by Japan-based Nippon Steel of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel. Published February 13, 2024

China's competition against U.S. businesses illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The eve of Apple and Tesla’s destruction in China

American CEOs who succumb to the lure of China's sweatshops, pollution havens and government subsidies inevitably lose not just their souls. They eventually surrender their companies. Published January 16, 2024

New Hampshire's Haley-RINO Trump trap illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Beware of New Hampshire’s Haley-RINO Trump trap

The Never Trump RINO establishment has only two shots to take down The Donald. Nikki Haley is its trigger girl in what it hopes will be a fatal double tap on former President Donald Trump. Published January 9, 2024

Trump's MAGA,  commonsense policies illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Trump’s MAGA means commonsense policies, not extremism

Does MAGA equal extremism? The Bidenites want you to believe that; it's the only strategic message likely to topple former President Donald Trump in 2024 if embraced by the broad electorate. So what's the truth? Published November 28, 2023

Illustration on debt., inflation and the weak consumer-driven economy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

‘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

Illustration on House Republicans by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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