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Tesla objects across the US are facing protests, and Vandalism, in response to the political role of Elon Musk, who owns a car manufacturer, has played in Trump’s administration.
Most of the “Tesla Takedown” protests were calm, but several of them were destructive with fires intentionally set up at Tesla salons and charging cells in Colorado and Massachusetts last week.
Six arrests in New York followed the weekend, when hundreds of protesters occupied the Tesla exhibition salon.
There was also a spike at Cybertruck vandalism across the US, and some car owners break through their own Tesla in protest to the musk.
One woman appeared at a protest in front of Burbank Tesla on Sunday with an exptigrant and male name carved chalk over her white sedan of the X. The other car wore the “Anti Elon Tesla Club” sticker.
Protests illustrate the increasing discomfort due to the impact of men on the US government, since President Donald Trump allowed him to create the Department of the Costs for the Efficiency of the Government (Doge).
So far, Doga has released or offered buying about 100,000 federal employees and received access to sensitive personal and financial information of millions of Americans.
The critics have resorted to calling a technological billionaire “President Male”, claiming that there is too much power in the White House. Some at a protest in Burbank held signs that read “Elon’s deportation” and “boycott swastiar” – with protesters who tried to connect a car with fascism.
Tesla produced must-have electric cars for many Americans with progressive views, but several protesters said they had regretted buying after Musk had joined Trump and American politics.
Karen Rabwin, a protester on Sunday at Burbank Tesla, attended only two days after trading in Tesla for Cadillac. She plunged a bumper sticker on her old vehicle that was “bought this car before we knew” in a curved reference to Musk, but felt that was not enough.
“It was embarrassing,” Tesla said. “It’s not what I wondered. How could I drive that car? I have principles.”
Singer Sheryl Crow donated Tesla on national public radio last month. She posted a video on Instagram to wave a goodbye to a car while he was dragged.
“There is a time when you have to decide who you are ready to reconcile with. So long tesla,” Mrs. Crow wrote.
Musk responded to protests by dividing the video on the X – the social media platform he owns – Cybertruck’s customer in Texas who admired a full vehicle driving mode.
“Honestly thanks to everyone who supports Tesla, despite many attacks on our stores and offices,” Musk wrote.
The social media platform has many posts of Teslina owners showing their electric cars. But now there are videos that show the growing trend of Cybertrucks vandalized swastika, which are used as sliding ramps or covered with garbage.
During Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the viewers amazed the orange Cybertruck and knocked it with beads, calling a futuristic vehicle “future” or other hostile directors.
Protesters said on Sunday that they wanted to break the value of Tels because they are worried that Mr. Musk harms the economy and the country – and their efforts may have an effect.
While Tesla’s price price increased after Trump was chosen – with a male next to his election evening in Florida – they crashed to the level of election after a return attack on the political involvement of the male.
Some on Sunday also caused the concern that the men’s participation of the Government was using his business.
Critics note that Tech Entrepeneur have billions of dollars of contracts with the US government, primarily with NASA and the Ministry of Defense, which are increasingly relied on on Musk Spacex for satellite launch and universe research.
Last week, reports claimed that Musk tried to make the Federal Administration of Air Force to cancel a $ 2.4 billion contract with a Verizon to renovate the telecommunications system of the Agency and assign it to Starlinka, owned by Spacex.
Spacex denied this report, posting on the X that “Starlink is possible partially repairing the aging system. There is no effort or intention to” take over “any” existing contract “.
Some ingredients are angry with Musk’s participation and the effort of the White House to reduce certain jobs and programs. Many have appeared in Republican councilors to protest the reduction and growing influence of the technological billionaire.
Mike Johnson’s home president and other Republican leaders called on their parties members to stop hosting events in response, claiming without evidence that “professional protesters” disrupted them.
