Tesla stock is plummeting, and people just love that for Elon Musk – 21 nuggets of schadenfreude
It can’t have escaped you that Tesla isn’t most people’s favourite brand these days. Its close association with CEO Elon Musk has made it so toxic that people have been defacing the vehicles, often with the word ‘Swasticar’.
Since Elon Musk’s DOGE has been stripping federal departments of funding, rummaging through people’s confidential records, and randomly firing employees, protests have been taking place outside Tesla showrooms, which are not run on a franchise basis.
Due to a combination of the protests, already plummeting sales, and the overall weakening of markets by Donald Trump‘s tariff wars, Tesla share prices have experienced what is known in technical terms as a right hammering.
Musk is less than thrilled.
Other people, however, are verging on the ecstatic. Here are some of their reactions.