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BumRushDaShow

(150,929 posts)
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 11:43 AM Mar 11

Trump Makes Tesla Promise While Blaming 'Far Left Radicals' for 'Boycotting' Elon Musk, Tanking Company Shares

Source: MEDIAite

Mar 11th, 2025, 6:41 am


President Donald Trump is putting his money on Elon Musk. The commander in chief vowed to buy a brand-new Tesla after the company’s stock took a brutal 15 percent dive — as Trump blamed the drop on “radical Left lunatics” engaged in an “illegal and collusive” boycott.

Since the beginning of the Trump administration, with which Musk is closely involved, sales have cratered in key global markets, with Tesla’s European sales nearly halving in January and its China sales plummeting 49 percent in February.

Germany, Tesla’s biggest European market, saw a 76 percent drop.

The company’s tanking stock price — now at its lowest level since Trump’s victory — has wiped out nearly $100 billion in market value and slashed Musk’s net worth by over $105 billion.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-makes-tesla-promise-while-blaming-far-left-radicals-for-boycotting-elon-musk-tanking-company-shares/



Trump blamed the drop on “radical Left lunatics” engaged in an “illegal and collusive” boycott.


The cognitive dissonance of that word salad is breathtaking.

Why don't MAGats buy Teslas or even EVs?

(maybe because they can't "roll coal" )
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Trump Makes Tesla Promise While Blaming 'Far Left Radicals' for 'Boycotting' Elon Musk, Tanking Company Shares (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 11 OP
WOW.......... Lovie777 Mar 11 #1
Welcome to the free market, Snowflake. Permanut Mar 11 #2
So he knows illegal and collusive, as when he interferes to promote tesla..... Karadeniz Mar 11 #3
He knows not a damn thing will be done. JohnSJ Mar 11 #5
Gee, if you piss off a major consumer of your product, in this case progressives who are for a clean environment, and JohnSJ Mar 11 #4
Too many 'bussinessmen' are all about stocks & forgot that companies need to sell PRODUCTS too Attilatheblond Mar 11 #17
So, is tRump admitting that companies owned by RW assholes can't survive without Sibelius Fan Mar 11 #6
Maybe President Assface can buy a couple hundred thousand Teslas a year kysrsoze Mar 11 #7
He hopes his cult will follow his lead. nt intrepidity Mar 11 #27
HAHAHA JBTaurus83 Mar 11 #8
I traded my Model 3 Swastikar on Saturday liberalgunwilltravel Mar 11 #9
Who does he think buys Teslas? MadMike47 Mar 11 #10
Yep. To those who ride stallions, Tesla is a rocking horse. Baitball Blogger Mar 11 #15
How many right-wingers buy electric vehicles, Elon? Eugene Mar 11 #11
Boycotts are illegal? Who knew. twodogsbarking Mar 11 #12
Not just illegal but collusive as well!! Wiz Imp Mar 11 #29
Yeah, that's Welcome to Free Markets the hard way. Aristus Mar 11 #13
The "free market" is great when you're making money off it. Ocelot II Mar 11 #14
Who the F does he think was buying them? MAGA? underpants Mar 11 #16
Lots of other EVs on the market better and cheaper.. Historic NY Mar 11 #18
It was these "Far Left Radicals" who were Tesla's main customers for years. Mr. Sparkle Mar 11 #19
Wealthy tech bros, finance bros, IronLionZion Mar 11 #20
If the dumb $hit didn't think nazi salutes were cool, he wouldn't be suffering as much. C Moon Mar 11 #21
Illegal Boycott? Collusive Boycott? johnnyfins Mar 11 #22
I smell a government bailout in the offing. n/t Harker Mar 11 #23
ETTD Deminpenn Mar 11 #24
We already knew he is stupid but yet he feels compelled to prove it over and over again. twodogsbarking Mar 11 #25
You couldn't give me one for free ! I would be embarrassed to drive one ! kimbutgar Mar 11 #26
Tank Tesla!!! oasis Mar 11 #28
Illegal boycott? duhneece Mar 11 #30
Boycotts are protected by the First Amendment LetMyPeopleVote Mar 12 #31
Trump's so fucking stupid he must think Tesla's are only sold in the US Bengus81 Mar 12 #32

JohnSJ

(98,418 posts)
4. Gee, if you piss off a major consumer of your product, in this case progressives who are for a clean environment, and
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 11:47 AM
Mar 11

competitors present alternatives, it doesn't take ROCKET SCIENCE to predict what will happen. Sales will go down

and this isn't just happening here.

Attilatheblond

(5,655 posts)
17. Too many 'bussinessmen' are all about stocks & forgot that companies need to sell PRODUCTS too
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 12:29 PM
Mar 11

I don't have a degree from Wharton, but my momma din't raise no fools who can't see reality. These 'geniuses' are so far removed from reality while they play Stock Market Poker that they never notice the quiet hand of the market on Main Street until that hand takes the pot away from the lot of 'em.

Sibelius Fan

(24,677 posts)
6. So, is tRump admitting that companies owned by RW assholes can't survive without
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 11:48 AM
Mar 11

the financial support of “radical Left lunatics?”

Interesting. Sounds like a new perspective on the donor state/taker state reality.

kysrsoze

(6,287 posts)
7. Maybe President Assface can buy a couple hundred thousand Teslas a year
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 11:49 AM
Mar 11

One isn't going to make a difference. That ship has sailed.

JBTaurus83

(252 posts)
8. HAHAHA
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 11:52 AM
Mar 11

"illegal"? How? The red states have no infrastructure for Tesla's and very little appetite for that type of product or the price. Tesla is screwed.

MadMike47

(145 posts)
10. Who does he think buys Teslas?
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 12:01 PM
Mar 11

It isn't the rednecks that voted for him. They drive pickup trucks with gun racks.

Wiz Imp

(4,745 posts)
29. Not just illegal but collusive as well!!
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 04:18 PM
Mar 11

2 biggest reasons for Tesla's drop in value:

1. The Tesla cybertruck has been proven to be one of the shittiest vehicles ever produced.

2. Musk has shown himself to be one of the shittiest human beings on the planet.

Aristus

(69,682 posts)
13. Yeah, that's Welcome to Free Markets the hard way.
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 12:03 PM
Mar 11

Dipshit doesn't know that boycotts are not illegal.

Ocelot II

(124,262 posts)
14. The "free market" is great when you're making money off it.
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 12:16 PM
Mar 11

Maybe not so much when people freely decide they don't want to buy your shitty product from your shitty company.

Historic NY

(38,843 posts)
18. Lots of other EVs on the market better and cheaper..
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 12:32 PM
Mar 11

The Scout which is coming is owned VW which bail out Rivian.


Mr. Sparkle

(3,407 posts)
19. It was these "Far Left Radicals" who were Tesla's main customers for years.
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 12:35 PM
Mar 11

Elon turned against his customers and they have turned against him.

IronLionZion

(48,501 posts)
20. Wealthy tech bros, finance bros,
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 12:51 PM
Mar 11

not too many rural workers buy Teslas. Those types tend to drive pickup trucks, mostly gas/diesel.

kimbutgar

(24,859 posts)
26. You couldn't give me one for free ! I would be embarrassed to drive one !
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 03:17 PM
Mar 11

When I see them I get ill!

Bengus81

(8,697 posts)
32. Trump's so fucking stupid he must think Tesla's are only sold in the US
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 11:01 AM
Mar 12

Get a grip asshat,the WHOLE WORLD has tanking sales of those Swastikacars.

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