San Francisco – The protesters against the purge of the United States government of multimillionaire Elon Musk under President Donald Trump demonstrated outside Tesla’s dealers in the United States and in some cities in Europe on Saturday in the last attempt to abolish the fortune of the richest man in the world.
The protesters were trying to intensify a movement aimed at the concessionaires and vehicles of Tesla in opposition to the role of Musk as head of the Government Efficiency Department, or Doge, where he has obtained access to confidential data and closed the entire agencies while trying to reduce government spending. Most of the estimated fortune of $ 340 billion of Musk consists of its action in the company of electric vehicles, which continues to work while working with Trump.
After previous demonstrations that were something sporadic, on Saturday he marked the first attempt to surround the 277 exhibition rooms and service centers of the automobile manufacturer in the United States in the hope of deepening. a recent decrease in company sales.
For the crowds of the afternoon, from a few dozen to hundreds of protesters had made mass to Tesla’s locations in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, Minnesota and Texas’s native state of the automation manufacturer. The images published on social networks showed protesters with signs such as ” Make the horn if you hate elon ” and ” Fight against the multimillionaire brush. “
As the day progressed, waterfall protests throughout the country outside Tesla’s locations in the main cities such as Washington, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Seattle, as well as in the cities in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Colorado. Smaller counterprotesting groups also appeared in some places.
“Hello, hey, ho, ho, Elon Musk has to leave!” Several dozen people sang outside an exhibition room in Dublin, California, about 35 miles (60 miles) east of San Francisco, while a smaller group of Trump supporters waved US flags on the other side of the street.
A much larger crowd surrounded another exhibition hall in the nearby Berkeley, singing slogans to the battery rate.
“We are living in a fascist state,” said Dennis Fagaly, a retired high school teacher from neighbor Oakland, “and we need to stop this or lose our entire country and all the good of the United States.”
The Tesla demolition movement also hoped to gather protesters in more than 230 locations in other parts of the world. Although the participations in Europe were not so great, the anti-mudgen feeling was similar.
Around two dozen people contained signs that criticized the billionaire outside a dealership in London while the cars and trucks that passed touched horns in support.
A sign shown in the musk represented next to an image of Adolf Hitler doing the Nazi greeting, a gesture that Musk has been accused of reproducing Shortly after the opening of January 20 by Trump. A person with a Tyrannosaurus Rex costume had another sign with an image of Musk’s straight arm gesture that said: “You thought the Nazis were extinct. I don’t buy a swastika.”
“We just want to be loud, make noise, make people aware of the problems we face,” said Cam Whitten, an American who appeared in London’s protest.
Tesla Takedown was organized by a group of followers who included disappointed owners of car manufacturer vehicles, celebrities such as actor John Cusack and at least one legislator of the Democratic Party, representative Jasmine Crockett of Dallas.
“I will continue shouting in the halls of Congress. I just need you to make sure that everyone will continue shouting on the streets,” Crockett said during a Organization call This month.
Another democratic legislator, Rep. Pramila Jaypal, appear in a protest in Seattle, which she represents in Congress.
Some people have gone beyond the protest, set up the Tesla vehicles or committing Other acts of vandalism That the United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has denounced as domestic terrorism. In a meeting of the company of March 20, Musk indicated that he was stunned by the attacks and said that the vandals should “stop acting psychopath.”
Crockett and other supporters of Tesla Takedown have been emphasizing the importance of Saturday’s protests remain peaceful.
But the police were investigating a fire that destroyed seven Teslas in northwest early Germany in the morning. It was not clear immediately if the fire, which was extinguished by firefighters, was related to protests.
In Watertown, Massachusetts, the Local Police reported that the side mirror of a black truck hit two people in a protest outside a Tesla service center, according to The Boston Herald. The suspect was immediately identified by the police in the place, who said that there were no serious injuries.
A growing number of consumers who bought Tesla vehicles before Musk took care of Doge has been looking to sell them or change them, while others have slapped the stickers that seek to distance themselves from it.
But Musk did not seem worried about a prolonged fall in new sales at the March meeting, during which he assured the workers that the model and the company would continue to be “the best selling car on Earth this year.” He also predicted that Tesla will have sold more than 10 million cars worldwide for next year, compared to approximately 7 million.
“There are times when there are rocky moments, where there is a stormy climate, but what I am here to tell you is that the future is incredibly brilliant and exciting,” Musk said.
After Trump was chosen last November, investors initially saw the Musk alliance with the president as a positive development for Tesla and his long -term efforts to launch a network of autonomous cars.
That optimism helped raise Tesla’s actions by 70% between the elections and the opening of Trump’s January 20, creating additional $ 560 billion in the wealth of the shareholders. But practically all these profits have evaporated in the midst of investors’ concerns about violent reaction, delaying sales in the United States, Europe and China, and musk that spent time supervising Dute.
“This is still a moment of truth for Musk to sail for this moment of brand tornado crisis and arrive on the other side of this dark chapter for Tesla,” said Wedbush values analyst Dan Iives, in a recent research note.
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Associated Press Terry Chea writers in Berkeley, California, Mustakim Hasnath in London and Stefanie Dazio in Germany contributed.
