Elon Musk — the world’s richest man, who for the past two months has been dismantling or threatening to dismantle government services that help the less fortunate — is having a bad week, and Donald Trump feels sorry for him.
The president’s trade wars have been tanking the stock market, and Musk’s signature company, Tesla, has been along for the ride. The EV behemoth’s shares fell 15 percent on Monday alone, and are down more than 50 percent since peaking in late December. Musk has been melting down as a result, alleging that rival automakers and anyone who prefers them are Nazis, while accusing liberal interests of fueling the Tesla downturn.
Trump, perhaps the only human on the planet with a greater capacity for whining than Musk, came to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader’s defense on Tuesday, writing in an early-morning Truth Social post that “Radical Left Lunatics, as they often do, 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.”
“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,” the president continued. “Why should he be punished for putting his tremendous skills to work in order to help MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN???”
Trump and Musk have taken unprecedented control of the federal government since the former took office in January. Trump has been signing a torrent of ostensibly illegal executive orders, consolidating power around himself and attacking the rights of Americans. Musk and DOGE have been recklessly firing thousands upon thousands of government employees and cutting vital programs, all while rigging various agencies to benefit him personally.
The power couple have tried to support their actions by pushing a steady stream of misinformation about waste and fraud. There is of course no evidence that liberal agitators have anything to do with Tesla’s plunging share price, although there is a wealth of it pointing to the actions of Trump and Musk. Trump’s claim that a supposed “boycott” of Tesla is “illegal” is not only false, it is an affront to the First Amendment, toward which the president has grown increasingly hostile since taking office for the second time — most recently in the form of the arrest of pro-Palestine protester Mahmoud Khalil earlier this week.
Trump now appears set to stage a production around purchasing a Tesla to remind Americans that the real victims are not the working class public servants who have been fired, the LGBTQ+ Americans whose rights have been stripped, or the millions of less fortunate who rely on the social safety net that is now under assault. No, the real victims are Trump, the most powerful man in the world, and Musk, the richest. They have been treated so unfairly.
From Rolling Stone US
