Protests at hundreds of Tesla dealerships occurred across America over Elon Musk's involvement in Donald Trump's presidency.
Musk reacted by raising questions in an X post and a video from ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ about who was funding the protests against Tesla.
The Tesla CEO posted, “Who is funding and organizing all these paid protests?”
The group behind the mass protests is 'Tesla Takedown, ’ which claims to be a 'peaceful movement' but encourages people to boycott Elon Musk financially.
Former Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani slammed the organisation for “mimicking grassroots activism".
She said, “While local #TeslaTakedown protests may appear spontaneous and community-driven, they are the product of well-funded, tightly coordinated campaigns.”
“These groups use digital platforms, pre-scripted chants, pre-printed signs, and nationwide toolkits to manufacture the appearance of grassroots activism.” #tesla; #elonmusk
A huge number of these people had been to 20-plus events and a lot of other different
progressive events, and it seems like, at least in some of them, for sure, they were
paying people.
So they're giving people money to get on a bus, go to this place, here's your sign, go
have fun.
And so you're doing something different, right?
You're pretending that these people are all coming out to see you, but they're coming
out to see you because you're giving them money and free food.
And for a lot of losers, a lot of people that don't have things going well in their life,
and I was a loser at many points in my life, if somebody called me up and said, hey man,
you want to make $400 and just go to this Kamala Harris rally, I'm like, yeah, let's
go.
Let's do it.
Back to the states, the lunatic left over there are in meltdown across the states and
there's this disgusting vandalising of Teslas because they don't like Elon Musk, who was
of course once the darling of the left.
Have a look at what Trump had to say about this.
When I looked at those showrooms burning and those cars, not one or two, like seven, eight,
10 burning, exploding all over the place.
These are terrorists.
You didn't have that on January 6th.
I can tell you, you didn't have anything like that on January 6th.
We're going to be caught and they're going to be caught and they're going to be prosecuted.
And from what they tell me, I see this just by watching your programs and reading the
news.
But from what they tell me, they could get 20 years in jail and they'll get it.
I'll tell you, there's going to be no leniency and there'll be no pardons.
How much anger is there, Natalie, about this wanton vandalism?
Showrooms being torched, cars being scratched and vandalised.
How much anger is there in the states?
Well, that anger is actually organic and fuelled by the actual American people, the people
who are burning down these cars.
They're part of these far left, dark money groups that are being paid to do a lot of
this.
Groups like Indivisible.
It's one of the leading kind of left wing activists where we've actually uncovered documents
showing how they're reimbursing people who will hold anti-Musk, anti-Tesla events $200
just to show up and oppose President Trump for whatever reason they see fit.
So there's a lot of anger.
And frankly, it goes back to the kind of the 2016 resistance tactics that Democrats have
always used when they don't get their way.
I guess they didn't win the House of Representatives so they can't impeach President Trump.
So instead of doing that, they're trying to bully and really use these bizarre kind of
colour revolution regime change tactics because they don't like the person, the president
that the American people elected.
So they're doing what they've done to countries abroad.
Right.
Like we've seen that happen time and time again.
Now we're seeing them use those same tactics to try to astroturf and engineer change here
at home.
And how much anger amongst the public, the broad public?
Do they watch all this and go, what are you lunatics doing?
What are the left doing?
Surely, you know, Joe Blow, the Americans public must think this is insane.
Yeah.
I mean, unfortunately, I think people conflate this with the mainstream Democratic Party.
Right.
You saw their behaviour at that joint session, the stuff they wouldn't applaud for.
And frankly, I think you and I both know the stuff that they would applaud for.
And that is the burning down and vandalising of private property.
I mean, look, the World Economic Forum tells us you'll owe nothing and you'll be happy.
Obviously, the left doesn't believe in private property ownership.
So, of course, they're not going to take issue with burning down anything, even if it's some,
you know, eco-friendly green electric vehicle.
There's been an awful lot of squealing from the left.