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The clock has struck midnight for Musk and DOGE…he needs to also wear his hat as Tesla CEO,
Ives, who is global head of technology research at Wedbush Securities, told DW
In the last two years, Musk has pretty much burned his bridges with those constituencies. Also, given the arrival on the market of many other EVs [startups like Rivian and Lucid and legacy automakers], people who want to drive an EV for climate reasons no longer have to buy a Tesla,
Crane told DWMusk thinks he can say anything he wants to and doesn’t think Tesla will suffer any consequences,
Morningstar analyst Seth Goldstein told the Associated Press last weekThe public knows this is not the right use of the office of a president, to endorse a product that is a friend and a major political donor,
she added
The federal government isn't in the business of endorsing products to buy. The federal government is supposed to be making policy decisions that better the lives of the American public not making endorsements of the president's friends or the president's donors
Delaney Marsco, director of ethics at the Campaign Legal Center, a U.S. government watchdog, told ABC NewsCome on down to Pennsylvania Avenue just off Route 29 to get our best deal ever on a brand-new Tesla,
it continued, with more cutaways to the president gushing over the electric vehicles
Going on now at the White House Tesla auto mall, it’s the biggest sale of the year, ... It’s very safe, it's very strong, heavy. It’s all steel, stainless steel.”
the narrator said in the spoof commercial, before Trump cuts in appearing to list the Cybertruck’s credentialsThanks for helping sell Teslas!!,
he tweeted with a laughing face emojiThey left Elon out, ... and now he hates ’em.”
said Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist who is working to get his party to embrace electric vehicles,
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Seems odd that Tesla wasn’t invited,
Musk tweeted before the eventThe dirty tricks campaign against me & my companies happened exactly as predicted,
he wrote, re-sharing an old post that predicted Democrats would turn on him because of his support for RepublicansIt was our regulatory process and our subsidies to create this market, you’re 100% right,
Newsom said
I’ve turned down major deals where the ethoses don’t align…There are people who have become MAGA more recently – and I don’t know they actually believe,
Trump Jr., told Bloomberg, which reported thatMarkets are going to go up and they're going to go down but, you know what, we have to rebuild our country.
He also shrugged off the declining stock market
To understand the federal government, it is like a corporate takeover at scale, but one where the company is actually in much worse shape than any commercial company could ever be,
Musk saidMusk is going to do what he wants and what he thinks is right and I’m not necessarily judging him for that,
the Cybertruck driver said
Musk is going to have to do a better job of balancing his DOGE and Trump responsibilities versus being chief executive of Tesla,
said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities who has a buy rating on Tesla stockAs they’ve seen Musk show his true colors of his personal politics and his personal attitudes, they have decided that this is not someone that they want to support with their dollars,
Abuelsamid saidWhen you’re selling a mass market vehicle and you take a political affiliation like this, there’s a downside to it,
Ives saidI bought this before we knew Elon was crazy.”
He has put a bumper sticker on the back window of his car stating