‘TeslaTakeover’ protests are small, but numerous

Protestors gathered extracurricular a Tesla showroom successful New York connected Saturday. | Photo: Stephanie Keith / Bloomberg via Getty Images<br>

Today marked a second play of scattered protests astatine Tesla showrooms, pursuing a “TeslaTakeover” hashtag that has been trending connected Twitter alternate Bluesky this week. Protestors’ messages mostly focused connected the divisive efforts of Tesla CEO Elon Musk arsenic the caput of the Department of Government Efficiency since the commencement of Donald Trump’s Presidency.

The protests don’t look to beryllium particularly large, but they are numerous, ranging from places similar New York to lesser-known locales similar Minneapolis, Minnesota suburb Golden Valley. A section of Action Network’s site for organizing protests shows rallies planned for cities successful Ohio, Florida, Washington, New Mexico, and Alberta, Canada.

Tesla investors have expressed concern that Musk’s activities are negatively impacting the company, which saw its banal terms plummet by 21 percent since Trump’s inauguration according to an ABC story this week. Inside the company, employees and elder unit said successful a caller gathering that “the institution would beryllium amended disconnected if Musk resigned,” The Washington Post reported.

One of the larger rallies contiguous was extracurricular of Tesla’s Manhattan showroom, wherever a erstwhile protestation took spot connected February 9th. In the videos below, radical tin beryllium heard chanting, “Don’t bargain swasticars” and “Elon Musk tin spell to Mars; we don’t request your Nazi cars,” possibly referencing Musk’s enactment for far-right groups like Germany’s AfD party oregon his suspicious salute connected Inauguration Day.

Other posts showed what protests looked similar contiguous successful Berkeley, California:

San Francisco, California:

Minneapolis, Minnesota:

And Kansas City, Missouri:

Similar gatherings occurred successful Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and Boston, Massachusetts. Meanwhile, fewer look to person shown up contiguous successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:

Or Baltimore, Maryland, wherever a azygous idiosyncratic held a motion extracurricular a Tesla showroom:

Actor, director, and progressive activistic Alex Winter, who heavy promoted this weekend’s protests implicit the past fewer days, posted an representation of himself holding a motion urging radical to merchantability their Teslas astatine a protestation successful Pasadena, California:

Winter re-shared posts from protests astatine Tesla showrooms successful the California cities Corte Madera, San Jose, and Los Angeles, on with others from radical who’d posted astir rallies successful Rockville, Maryland; Tucscon, Arizona; and Golden Valley, Minnesota.

There are galore posts connected Bluesky with the #TeslaTakeover hashtag, but acold less amusement up erstwhile searching X, Instagram, oregon Threads. Outside of picketing, others protested Musk successful antithetic ways. Musician Sheryl Crow posted a video of a Tesla being driven distant connected a flatbed truck, on with a connection saying “There comes a clip erstwhile you person to determine who you are consenting to align with. So agelong Tesla,” and noting that she had donated the wealth to NPR, which is presently threatened by an FCC probe into nationalist media.

More protests are expected, including during the President’s Day vacation connected Monday, with one acceptable for Lowell, Maine and astatine slightest one different successful Richmond, Virginia. Those are successful summation to galore demonstrations planned this play that don’t people Tesla showrooms but inactive subordinate to the actions of Musk, DOGE, and President Trump much broadly.