Thursday, March 13, 2025 - US President Donald Trump said violence against Tesla dealerships will be labeled domestic terrorism and perpetrators will "go through hell."
Trump said this on Tuesday, March 11, in a show of support for the
electric carmaker's CEO, his friend Elon Musk.
Tesla's shares closed nearly 4% higher on Tuesday, rebounding from the
biggest one-day fall in four-and-a half years the previous day, after the
president appeared with Musk at the White House to select a new Tesla for his
staff to use.
Activists have lately staged Tesla Takedown protests to voice
displeasure over Musk's role in sweeping cuts to the federal workforce at the
behest of Trump and cancellation of contracts that fund humanitarian
programs around the world.
Musk, the world's richest person, is spearheading the Trump
administration's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
"They're harming a great American company," Trump said at the
White House, referring to the demonstrators, alongside Musk who was wearing a
black "Make America Great Again" baseball cap. Nearby, a number of
Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab vehicles were lined up on the driveway
between the mansion and the south lawn.
"Let me tell you, you do it to Tesla, and you do it to any company,
we're going to catch you, and ... you're going to go through hell."
White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said "ongoing and heinous
acts of violence against Tesla by radical Leftist activists are nothing short
of domestic terror."
About 350 demonstrators protested outside a Tesla electric vehicle
dealership in Portland, Oregon, last week, while nine people were arrested
during a demonstration outside a New York City Tesla dealership earlier in
March.
There have also been media reports of vandalism on Tesla vehicles and
showrooms that are under investigation.
A group that said it was an organizer of the Tesla Takedown protests
responded in a statement on social media platform Bluesky that it was peaceful
and opposed violence.
"Peaceful protest on public property is not domestic terrorism.
They are trying to intimidate us. We will not let them succeed," the group
said, calling for people to join the protests.
Watch video below.
Any form of violence against Tesla as domestic terrorism - TRUMP pic.twitter.com/9j6z84J2N4
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