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The demonstrators gathered on Saturday outside the Tesla exhibition rooms in the USA to demonstrate against the drastic cuts Elon Musk, the billionaire advisor of President Donald Trump, the federal government.
The organizers quoted 37 protests across the country as part of an effort, which was coordinated as part of the social media hashtags #teslatakedown and #teslatakover.
Musk’s car company is a goal for political outrage in the United States and in Europe in response to the oversized influence of the billionaire in the White House.
Through its so -called Efficiency of the government’s Ministry (Doge) Musk has orchestrated tens of thousands of civil servants and received access to sensitive US finance payments. He also expressed his support for the German right-wing extremists and requested the center-left government of Sir Keir Starrer can be ejected in Great Britain.
What started with Tesla owner struck Car sticker In their cars in which I said: “I bought it before Elon went crazy.
The British campaign group under the direction of Eseln joined the German Center for Political Beauty in January to project the picture, part of a longer assembly of Musk’s latest political explanations. The group said it was produced in response to the confirmation of the German right -wing extremist political party of the Tesla, the AfD.
Local news agencies have an arson and tried arson in Tesla Showrooms in Oregon and Colorado. At the beginning of this month, a Tesla showroom in the Hague with graffiti, which included swastikas and anti-fascist slogans, became unrecognizable.
The Dutch police confirmed the FT to the FT that it was in contact with Tesla and the investigation continued, but no arrests were yet made.
Tesla’s share that rose after the presidential election fell 6 percent to USD 328.50 on Tuesday. It recovered to close the week at 355.84 US dollars, but has still dropped by 12 percent since the beginning of the year.
“The concern of the street is that Musk, who is devoted to so much time – even more than we expected – takes away from his time at Tesla,” said Wedbus -Analyst Dan Ives.
“In addition, Musks could clearly alienate some consumers to move away from the Tesla brand.”
Around 50 to 100 demonstrators turned out to be in Portland, Oregon on Saturday and carried signs with the inscription “Dethrone Musk” and “When Tesla survives, their country dies”.
Edward Niedermeyer, Author of Ridiculous: the unvarnished story of Tesla enginesWas one of them. Since Musks is not derived from the election to the public office, he is, boycotting and selling that Tesla is the only tool that can contain his agenda.
He argued that Tesla was overrated and that his core business of making cars and selling worsened. Investors could force essential losses to sell, causing a decline in the share price and forces Muschus to sell part of his shares to make a margin call.
“Every Tesla sale that you prevent, every dollar that was not issued for the maintenance of a Tesla does not calculate for the supercharger – these further affect the business,” said Nestermeyer.
“It’s not easy, it is not guaranteed, but we have the opportunity to wipe out a large amount of wealth from Elon Musk.”
In Chicago, demonstrators applied a banner with the inscription “Stop buying Nazi cars”.
Lisa Pereira, who lived in the city, said she had come to the demonstration because “you have to do something”. she said Diversity, justice and inclusion Initiatives, its aggressive immigration enforcement and the power equipped by Muschus.
“Everything is a little of the rails,” she said. “So I decided that I had to appear. I had to be in Cahoots with my soul. “
Chris White said he took part in Saturday because he fears that “we live a fascist coup”.
“My children are trans,” he said. “I am told that they do not exist. I don’t know if your health care will exist. “
Although a man screamed out of a truck, “Elon is my hero!” Most passers -by in the strongly democratic city expressed support.
“I would rather buy a Rivian,” said one, referring to the electric truck manufacturer, whose exhibition space was a block from the protest.
Tesla did not immediately answer a request for comment.
