The AP agency informs that protesting strive to tighten the actions imposed in Tesla salons and vehiclesexpressing opposition to the role Amulet as a newly created head Department of Government Efficiency (Dog). As part of this function, he gained access to confidential data and wants to liquidate entire agencies by implementing a policy of cutting government expenditure and mass dismissals of employees.
Although Saturday demonstrations were not the first actions of this type, the organizers of the initiative “Tesla Takedown” They sought to cover everyone with protests 277 salons and service centers belonging to Muskacounting on deepening a recent decline in sales of his company.
According to AP accounts in the demonstrations, in which well -known personalities such as the actor participated John Cusacktook part under each of the car dealerships from several dozen to several hundred people.
USA. Protests in front of Tesla salons in the largest American cities
Protests took place, among others in front of Tesla salons in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Pennsylvania, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota and in Texaswhere Musk lives. The demonstrators kept the banners with the slogans: “Trąb, if you hate Elona” and “Stop the billionaire wastefulness”, chanting: “Elon Musk must leave!”.
“I will continue to shout in the corridors of the Congress. However, I need that you also shout on the streets,” said the Democratic Congress Jasmine Crockett. She and other supporters of “Tesla Takedown” protests appealed for the peaceful nature of the manifestation.
In previous demonstrations, some participants committed acts of vandalism, setting on Tesla cars, as the US prosecutor general Pam Bondi She condemned as an act of internal terrorism.
Musk expressed amazement with attacks and called vandals to “stop behaving like psychopaths.”
Protests also spilled in Europe, including In the capital of Great Britain. “It's too overwhelming to do nothing,” the Guardian said one of the participants of the demonstration, which has a family in the USA. AFP also writes about protests in Berlin and Paris.
Canadians protest against Elon Musk and Tesla. Dozens of damaged cars
Last week, protests against Tesla and its owner took place in Canada. Then – as the police said – at least 80 Tesla cars It was damaged in the living room parking lot in Hamilton in Ontario. It was the most serious act of vandalism in this country directed against this car manufacturer.
From February 20, the signatures under Parliamentary petition regarding the deprive of Musk from Canadian citizenshipwhich he has due to the fact that his mother was born in Canada. On March 21, there were almost 376.5 thousand under the petition. signatures. Musk initially reacted to the petition with an entry on it platform X that “Canada is not a real country”, but – as the media reported – then he removed it.
Sale of Tesla in Canada fell in January 2025 by 70 percent. Compared to December 2024 – according to the data of the shop4tesla.com website. This is, among others The effect of the end of the federal subsidy program and the increase in car prices, which in turn caused Tesla loss of subsidies for the purchase of British and Quebek offered in Colombia.
Donald Trump announces buying Tesla. He looked at the cars in front of the White House
After a previous series of protests against Musk and the company belonging to it in the USA Donald Trump He watched before White house Tesla and announced that he would buy one of them as an expression of support for his adviser, whom he called “a great patriot”. As he announced then, he will recognize Attacks on Tesla sales points for acts of internal terrorism.
According to CNN, one of the protesters – a 36 -year -old man – has already faced Federal and state court For setting up a few Tesla cars last week in a repair workshop in Las Vegas.