
‘This is not over’: Tesla Takedown protesters keep pressure ... - CNN
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- Jun 07, 2025
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Demonstrations against tech billionaire Elon Musk are continuing, even after the Tesla CEO stepped away from his role leading the Department of Government Efficiency and engaged in an all-out feud this week with Donald Trump over the presidentâs massive tax and domestic policy bill known as the âbig, beautiful bill.â
Musk, who contributed $288 million to Trumpâs 2024 presidential campaign, called the bill a âdisgusting abominationâ just days after announcing he would leave DOGE, his federal cost-cutting project. As the two traded jabs, Trump threatened to cut government contracts for Muskâs companies and Musk claimed that âTrump would have lost the electionâ without him.
Anti-Musk sentiment spilled onto sidewalks outside of Tesla showrooms with 60 demonstrations scheduled Saturday in cities such as Delray Beach, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; and Decatur, Georgia, as part of the Tesla Takedown movement, which began in mid-February amid Muskâs role with DOGE.
At 11:30 a.m. ET, a crowd of about 30 demonstrators had gathered outside of a Tesla showroom on a rainy morning in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC.
Attendance for the Tesla Takedown event was well short of the roughly 200 who showed up last week in Rockville, Maryland, according to local co-organizers Melissa Knutson and Sara Steffens, who cited the weather and Pride Month events for the lower turnout.
âThis is not over because (Musk) decided to go home with his tail between his legs,â Knutson told CNN.
Tesla Cybertrucks in a dealership on April 2, 2025, in Corte Madera, California.
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The Tesla Takedown movement, according to its website, calls on people to âsell your Teslas, dump your stock and join the picket linesâ and believes that âstopping Musk will help save lives and protect our democracy.â
Tesla sales plunged 13% in the first three months of this year, the largest drop in deliveries in its history. Shares of Tesla (TSLA) dropped roughly 14% this week and are down nearly 47% from the high of $488.54 on December 18.
Steffens said she âwas really encouragedâ to see Teslaâs stock plunge this week. âIt just shows none of this is normal,â she said.
Musk, the worldâs richest man, has blamed a drop in sales on overall economic weakness and consumer uncertainty, though sales for competing EV models and other car companies rose.
Neither Tesla nor Alex Winter, one of the initial lead organizers for Tesla Takedown, responded to CNNâs requests for comment.
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk depart after looking at Tesla vehicles on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025.
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