Elon Musk delusionally believes Trump support is not affecting Tesla, claims sales are at 'all-time highs'

I'm still undecided on an electric car, mostly because modern cars are such privacy nightmares on wheel (not Tesla-specific).

But there's one thing for sure: whatever car I get eventually won't be a Tesla, and that's 100% due to Musk's misguided political gesticulations.

I'm one example of business lost forever to Tesla. One example doesn't make a trend, but if there's one, there are others.

The guy has simply lost it.

Complete idiot. All he had to do was keep his mouth shut.

I own 2 Model 3’s. I waited in line the day before the reveal to plunk down $1000 to reserve it sight-unseen.

I will never buy a Tesla again, and want to unload my 2 as soon as a comparable replacement is available. I’m embarrassed to drive mine around.

I agree. Many companies have shady practices but very few of them have CEOs that show their shitty character as open as Elon Musk. One important reason of buying an electric car instead of a ICE car is causing less harm / negative impact to the world. And people who make their buying decision based on that in many cases don't appreciate people constantly lying and promoting fachism. I personally won't buy a Tesla as long as he is involved.

As a Tesla owner of 7 years, my next car will absolutely not be a Tesla and it is entirely because of Elon Musk.

I appreciate the company spurring competition to enter the market with EVs, but now I hope they crash and burn.

What does Musk think Trump is going to do for him? Trump has said multiple times he wants to outright ban EVs and increase fuel production and sales. He hates public transportation, so he's not going to support The Loop. He's weirdly obsessed with space, sure, but Trump isn't going to give him money for SpaceX. Is Musk looking for a cabinet position or something?

Ai art finally getting some proper use here

If Musk wasn’t with Tesla, I’d consider Tesla an option. And, I’m definitely in the market, my lease runs out in January. But with that idiot, nope. No chance. Doesn’t even have anything to do with Trump support. So I guess he’s right in a way?

Crazy to think about how supremely fucked up musk's deepest core beliefs must truly be, working from a base of growing up in South Africa on the PRO Apartheid sideb with those broken psychopath parents. Like we see plenty from him, but he's aware enough to not say the absolute worst of it out loud.

He's the evil foreign born person they're terrified of. He just ran over to their side so he could point outward to redirect the fingers he feared would point at him. Evil divorced coward

It definitely affected me. In retrospect I'm glad I bought a different EV.

It sucks, where is the 2016 Musk. That dude seemed to really want to help the world.

Tesla was in a difficult position, but was really doing good things, SpaceX was just getting off the ground (pun intended), The Boring Company wasn't a thing yet.

But post 2016, he just seems to get worse and worse, meme coins, weird birther shit....

I used to really want a Tesla, they seemed like a car for me, but now that I am getting close to being able to afford one....well no, I think I'll probably get a polestar. Musk you went from what I would have called a visionary to a joke then kept sliding into actively dangerous. Shame really.

Is that a real picture or AI?

Said it dozens of times, Musk's one and only true talent is, or rather was, pumping his stock value.

We done got smart, sumbitch!

Whatever happens next month, I doubt Elon’s decision will age well. Even if Trump wins, I would be shocked if he doesn’t turn on Elon within a year.

This is the key takeaway, imo.

I mean they're also really shitty cars. As much as the muskrat as poisoned the image of the company, I think a lot of the loss and sales is due to other competitors having caught up and being higher quality.

I hate that Fred still uses the Roman-numeral-ten site. I emailed him about it and didn’t get a response.

I don't drive a Tesla because I have never liked Musk. Apart from that imo the only model that is somewhat good looking is the model S but still very overpriced for what you get.

Dude keeps surprising me with his stupid decisions. Can't imagine the shareholders are happy with his newest pro Trump thing, once again showing he is a huge narcissist.

Aren't they releasing quarterly numbers tommorow? I guess we will see what "all time high" means very soon.

Edit: Earnings release today after market clothes. Earnings call tommorow.

Note, they won't tell how many teslas they sold, but they will report how much their profit was.

Just a reminder that when Dan Cathy, owner of Chickfilet, ranted publicly about how gay people were sub-human sinners, their profits went sky high.

Never underestimate the depths the gutter trash of this country will sink to. That was sandwiches, though... Not highly expensive cars.

What gives people the idea that Musk actually cares about Tesla stocks? His lifetime experience of failing upwards, perhaps?

They might be high, but they'd be higher if he wasn't a nutjob

I wouldn't buy a Tesla going forward (especially when cars like byd are probably better quality). And I literally trust the Chinese government more than Trump

Elon Musk delusionally believes Trump support is not affecting Tesla, claims sales are at 'all-time highs'

FTFY.

I mean, yeah, all time high. They're gonna go down.

Sorry to hijack the thread but are question style posts allowed in this community. Nothing in the community rules mention not allowing posts asking questions or asking for advice but from what I have seen, all the posts here are articles or studies relating to EV.

I hope all his companies fail horribly. Even the space thing that's innovating, I just don't care that much about human space flight. Send probes to gather information, that's interesting to me. I don't care about getting people to Mars.

Its not OK to have an image like that in a news article. I don't care if its obvious to most people. Its immoral to normalize fake news.

Thats great ladies. Now with more tongue.

I genuinely do not give a shit what Elon Musk is doing or thinking or saying or fucking.

I can't block electric vehicles, but then I realized I can block OP! Bye bye american politics

He's not wrong though. Last I read Tesla is doing pretty well.