Elon Musk makes stunning claim after Tesla profits plummet: 'If the ship of America goes down, Tesla will go with it'
Elon Musk makes stunning claim after Tesla profits plummet: 'If the ship of America goes down, Tesla will go with it'
Tesla's CEO Elon Musk is responding to the electric vehicle manufacturer's disappointing Q1 financial results with some surprising rhetoric.
Someone toss his ass in prison already!
This guy is so entirely up his own ass.
My understanding is that's for warmth.
lol
I swear the way he stumbles around his words disarms people to the fact that he straight up lies all the time.
Says the guy who helped drive the “Ship of America” into the iceberg.
At this point, it's pretty obvious his entire goal with DOGE was to dismantle federal agencies that were either investigating him in some way, or were trying to regulate his companies. So, I guess this means Tesla can't survive without him actively gaming the system in his favor.
That's surprisingly modest of him, I'd have thought he would have put it the other way around.
What he actually means:
"If the ship of Tesla goes down, I will take America with it."
Or... I will happily destroy America to extend my wealth
Just gotta love the sudden change in demeanor in the pictures of articles regarding him.
Destroying the country? Laughs and jumps. Losing everything he "worked" for? Serious face.
Bye Elon get out of here.
Fuck off and die Elon.
I hope he gets assaulted by a Gorilla. RIP Horimbae.
It's a single car company. World economy doesn't depend on Tesla's success. Not even the American economy. If Tesla dies, it's just a canary in the coalmine for much, much bigger economic problems. Like, you know, how they put dipshits in the White House, or something. So it's kind of interesting that Elon has a moment of lucidity here, because no one around him seems to realise how screwed they are.
Reread that sentence there
I'm sick of Elon's bitch ass face.
Exactly! I'm ardently waiting for someone to dirt nap this clown, so I never have to think about him again.
He's scared to take a shit without an armed guard. Aparently, conveying this information counts as inciting violence on reddit. I just publically imagined having to stand there and listen to that flabby windbag take a shit and declared he couldn't pay me enough. He thinks everyone else is as greedy as he is, and in his shitty vampire circle, he's pretty much right. You couldn't pay me enough to kiss that ass. My self respect is not up for sale
Elon.
If you are on a ship... and there is some troublesome bullshit cargo that keeps throwing off the balance of the ship, in a storm, and that cargo is the property of an idiot who keeps trying to erect his own sail, despite have no clue what he is doing, no idea how sailing works...
You throw said dumbass and his bullshit overboard, so the ship and everyone else survives.
... Then, you mutiny against the idiot captain whos been bought and paid for by the other idiot who is currently fish food.
It's because the company is fully subsidized by carbon credits and government funding. The crazy brand valuation is based on fully autonomous driving and person less cabs which will never happen at Tesla.
And vibes, don't forget how the traders love their vibes!
a.k.a government handouts
“If I drive us all off a cliff, I won’t be using my eject button”
Even in his expressed delusions, he continues lying to everyone else
We bought a Hyundai EV. Would have seriously considered a Tesla, but.
It is long past time for torches and pitchforks.
I wonder who’s fucking fault that is
He’s like the bad guy from titanic
I didn't watch that movie was it the iceberg?
There's the guy who urges the captain to increase the ship's speed, so they can arrive a day early and impress everyone that the "unsinkable" ship is also super fast. And then sneaks his way onto a lifeboat at the end, when they're only supposed to be taking women and children. Arguably a parallel to Musk in that he's partly responsible for the sinking of the ship.
Much more prominent is Rose's (Kate Winslet) rich scumbag fiance who refers to Jack (Leo DiCaprio) as a "gutter rat", responds to "half the people on this ship are going to die" with "not the better half", tries to bribe with cash one of the men loading boats in order to secure himself a slot, and ultimately manages to get on a boat by picking up a random crying child and claiming it as his own. Much more like Musk himself, but not really a parallel in having resposibility for the ship sinking.
Stop, I can only get so erect!
Sorry buddy, but the US has seen bigger industries rise and fall in its time and survive. Your one company will be a blip.
Other way around.
He didn't say that Tesla going down would bring the US down. He said that the US going down would bring Tesla down.
The context here was him saying that he couldn't justify spending all his time at Tesla, since his expertise was required to keep America from going down.
I was living under the idea that the Load bearing snake oil salesman of the American Economy was Sam Altman.
And who just holed that ship below the waterline?
He, Trump, and the Republicans.
a rat is suppose to flee a sinking ship, not sink with it. maybe if you wernt on drugs 100% of the time.
The rat is trying to convince us it is the captain.
Batshit druggie loser says some fucked up bullshit?
How odd
So he’s trying to kill his own company? I feel like Elon more than anyone bought the lie that the us government was universally overgrown and bloated and could easily withstand being stripped, which is obviously not the case
Tesla board is not doing it's job if they don't replace Musky
Translation : "If I can't keep stealing US taxpayers funds and funnel them into my companies, they won't be able to exist on their own merit."
Is that his first concern from said realization? Goddammit.
Yes, that is right after where he put his pills. 🤡
At least the converse isn't necessarily true
What he really means is that if Tesla is going to go down, he’s going to take America down with it.
Is that a threat...?
Replace soap and Proctor and Gamble with Tesla and America respectively.
He self destructed pretty fast, all things considered...
Turns out giving him free reign with something that actually has a bigger impact than his own companies had consequences he doesn't like.
You mean "When" not "If".
Well yeah, it was the US that put 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and demanded allies also slap high tariffs on Chinese EVs. Without this, Tesla would be more than trampled in those markets. Also, the only reason why Tesla turned a profit in Q1 2025 is because of the carbon credits that the US government gives it. Without billions upon billions in US government subsidies, Tesla wouldn't exist.
he should be thanking obama for his survival.