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Summary

Elon Musk gave Donald Trump a scripted sales pitch during a White House event where Trump inspected Teslas.

Photographers captured Trump holding notes with phrases like “SAFEST car” and “affordable.” The stunt followed a 15% drop in Tesla’s stock, linked to backlash over Musk’s involvement in DOGE.

Trump defended Musk on Truth Social, blaming the decline on a “Radical Left” boycott.

Meanwhile, Musk’s other ventures, including X and SpaceX, are struggling with outages and test failures.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The fuck.... I thought that was ai/Photoshop for sure, didn't even trust the water mark.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Imagine if the "radical left" was actually as big and powerful as trump says it is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

So when is he gonna draw the last bits of the swastika for all his X brands?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Tesla stockholders should file a class action suit against Skum for tanking the stock price. Being openly sociopathic, and reveling in firing American citizens, and destroying the government from the inside has easily predictable negative consequences on the company image and sales, and as a "genius" CEO, he should have known that. He should have kept his loyalties to his own company, instead of partnering up with the loudest anti-EV voice on the planet, and helping destroy the market for EVs.

Now those Tesla stockholders are down 40%, representing millions, perhaps billions, in lost value. That equates to true, actionable damages, which are directly attributable to his reckless and negligent behavior.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

PoS? Yes!
Nazi? Double yes!
Wannabe? No, he's not a wannabe nazi, if you want to be a nazi then you already are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Well, I'm trying a tiny bit to avoid libel.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

All cars have Full Self Driving. Except "Full Self Driving" is just a brand name as Tesla explained it to the judge. They are in fact SAE Level 2, which is not what a regular person would expect hearing that name. Musk has been shouting they will have level 3, 4 or even 5 this year for years now.

Other brands have Level 3 cars for sale now. But all the dumb car "tech" sites still claim Tesla is the best. But in fact it's only their marketing that's best.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Just wait until he reaches Mars! Any day now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This is actually a good thing. Now tesla isn't only attached to musk but to MAGA and trump too. It ensures that these vehicles will become the literal object of people's anger. It's sorta similar to people getting riled up over the price of eggs, but here, it's seeing a tesla will remind people of their anger and with this new MAGA badge on this car, this anger won't dissipate even after musk is thrown under the bus (because that's the plan).

Make Teslas Uninsurable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If your sales decline is because of a boycott by the "radical left", doesn't that mean that your product mostly appeals to ... The "radical left"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There is no boycott. People just don't want to buy it.

The ones that do want to buy one already bought one. It's unfortunate for Musk that his wealth is tied to an unrealistic expectation of continuously increasing sales, but that's just bad judgement on his and the investors parts.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Wait that picture was real? I thought it was a joke.

Elon's handwriting is his only good quality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I can't believe it. I've seen this picture like five times and assumed it was a fake.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't expect to compliment him, but damn space hitler really does have good hand writing.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was gonna say that my handwriting analysis says - moron. Are you American by any chance? English kids learn better handwriting by age 7.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lmfao what a stupid thing to lie about

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think the Handwriting Championship is probably a good sample of the average British kid's handwriting, but admittedly those are pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Haha, maybe so, but at least it's the norm here for kids to be taught cursive from age 4. I think too much emphasis is put on handwriting actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not too proud to admit I was wrong though, I did think you were bullshitting because "America bad" and come to find out English kids do indeed have freakishly good handwriting. I'm sorry for coming at you like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for saying so, that's decent of you. :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

This is incredibly pathetic, and like the millionth time we've seen Trump holding scripts for dumb shit like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Wow.

Tesla is the new Trump Bible.

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