Donald Trump has a shopping trip planned for Tuesday morning after promising to buy a ‘brand new Tesla’ in support of First Buddy Elon Musk‘s ‘baby.’
Musk has bore the brunt of much of liberals’ anger at the second Trump administration, with protests against his presence in the Department of Government Efficiency.
Anti-Musk demonstrations have erupted across the United States with protesters attacking Tesla showrooms with guns and Molotov cocktails.
Tesla’s stock price has dropped 45 per cent since hitting an all-time high of $1.5trillion on December 17, erasing most of the gains the stock made after Musk helped finance Trump’s election victory.
Trump announced he is standing up for his most famous Cabinet member in a Truth Social post Monday night.
‘To Republicans, Conservatives, and all great Americans, Elon Musk is ‘putting it on the line’ in order to help our Nation, and he is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!’
The president claimed that ‘Radical Left Lunatics’ are ‘trying to illegally and collusively boycott Tesla, one of the World’s great automakers, and Elon’s ‘baby,’ in order to attack and do harm to Elon, and everything he stands for.’
His solution: ‘I’m going to buy a brand new Tesla tomorrow morning as a show of confidence and support for Elon Musk, a truly great American.’
Donald Trump has a shopping trip planned for Tuesday, having promised to buy a ‘brand new Tesla’ in support of First Buddy Elon Musk’s ‘baby.’ It would be at least Trump’s second Tesla after being given one by Adin Ross last August
Musk has bore the brunt of much of liberals’ anger at the second Trump administration, with protests against his presence in the Department of Government Efficiency
Trump thanked Musk for ‘being punished’ despite ‘putting his tremendous skills to work in order to help MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.’
This would be at least the second of Elon’s vehicles to come into his possession after YouTuber Adin Ross gifted the president a Tesla Cybertruck wrapped in an image of Trump pumping his fist after his near-assassination this past August.
Musk’s political postures appear to be coming at a price for the car maker, as sales in Europe have also tumbled 45 per cent in January from a year earlier – while its rivals’ sales rose by over 37 per cent.
Protests against Musk and Tesla have ramped up since the billionaire and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) began firing thousands of federal workers, including veterans, as it pushes to downsize the government.
Dozens of fired-up crowds assembled outside Tesla stores across the country on Saturday afternoon to protest against Musk’s efforts to slash government spending and enact reforms. Demonstrations also erupted in London, Portugal, Malaysia and Iceland.
Roughly 250 activists were gathered outside a showroom in New York City, holding anti-Musk placards that read ‘Block Facism Now and ‘Musk Must Go’ as they shouted ‘Elon Musk is not elected! Democracy must be protected!’
Five protesters were arrested for disorderly conduct at the Manhattan demonstration and one was taken into custody for resisting arrest, obstruction and violation of local law, The New York Daily News reported.
There have also been more than a dozen acts of vandalism against Tesla vehicles, dealerships and charging stations since President Donald Trump‘s inauguration, according to police and local reports.
Tesla’s stock price has dropped 45 per cent since hitting an all-time high of $1.5trillion on December 17, erasing most of the gains the stock made after Musk helped finance Trump’s election victory
Anti- Elon Musk demonstrations have erupted across the US with protesters attacking Tesla showrooms with guns and Molotov cocktails. A Tesla showroom in Salem, Oregon, was shot at with an AR 15-style rifle in February
A Tesla showroom in Salem, Oregon, was shot at with an AR 15-style rifle in February. Suspected vandal Adam Matthew Lansky, 41, is also accused of causing major damage at the same store with Molotov cocktails in January.
Similarly, four Tesla cybertrucks were set ablaze overnight at a storage lot in Seattle’s industrial SoDo neighborhood, KING-TV reported.
Police in Oregon are also working with the FBI to investigate gunshots fired at a Tesla dealership in Tigard, outside Portland, last week.
While the motivation for the attack has not been confirmed, Tigard police said they ‘are aware that other Tesla dealerships have been targeted across Oregon and the nation for political reasons’.
The shooting comes a week after federal prosecutors in Denver charged a woman in connection with vandalism against a Tesla dealership in Colorado – including Molotov cocktails being thrown at vehicles and the words ‘Nazi cars’ spray-painted on the building.
Also last week, seven Tesla charging stations that were ‘intentionally set’ on fire in Massachusetts, according to the Littleton Police Department. No injuries were reported.
Graffiti reading ‘No Musk’ and depicting a sign that resembled a swastika was also found at a Tesla dealership, one day after protesters gathered at the facility.
Meanwhile, DOGE has faced intense scrutiny in recent weeks for its chaotic handling of layoffs, particularly its firing of key federal employees only to attempt to rehire them later.
Roughly 250 demonstrators were gathered outside a showroom in New York City on Saturday afternoon, holding anti-Musk placards as they shouted ‘Elon Musk is not elected! Democracy must be protected!’
Among those affected were workers responsible for maintaining nuclear weapons sites across the US – a move that has raised serious national security concerns and Musk and his allies are now face mounting pressure to reassess their approach.
Musk last week revealed he’s now looking at cutting the US Postal Service and the railway service Amtrak. He named his targets when he spoke to a Morgan Stanley conference on Wednesday, CNN reported. He addressed the participants virtually.
In his remarks, the tech billionaire compared his influence over the federal government to that of a ‘corporate takeover’.
‘To understand the federal government, it is like a corporate takeover at scale, but one where the company is actually in much worse shape than any commercial company could ever be,’ Musk said.
Musk went on to say that ‘logically we should prioritize anything that can reasonably be privatized‘, which is when he named the USPS and Amtrak – which he called Amtrak a ‘sad situation’.
