Elon Musk expressed outrage Thursday over a spate of vandalism and attacks targeting Tesla owners and dealerships, describing the violence against his electric car company as a “great wrong.”
“I think a great wrong is being done to the people of Tesla and to our customers,” the DOGE chief told Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier.
“I mean, Tesla’s a peaceful company that has made great cars, great products — that’s all it’s done,” Musk, 53, argued.
“It hasn’t harmed anyone, and yet, people are committing violence.”
Tesla cars, dealerships and charging stations have been targeted across the country in recent weeks by vandals and arsonists – in an apparent protest of Musk’s work leading President Trump’s Department of Environmental Efficiency.
The attacks have ranged from vehicles being keyed and defaced with anti-Trump graffiti to being lit on fire and shot at, while charging stations have similarly been torched with Molotov cocktails.
Tesla employees and Musk himself have also received death threats, according to the billionaire tech mogul, who struggled to comprehend why his company has become a target.
“What are they doing this for? Why?” he said.
“What’s happening, it seems to me, is they’re being fed propaganda by the far left, and they believe it. It’s really unfortunate,” Musk told Baier, arguing that the “real problem” isn’t “the crazy guy that fire bombs a Tesla dealership” but rather “the people pushing the propaganda that caused that guy to do it.
“Those are the real villains here, and we’re going to go after them,” the Trump administration official warned.
In his one-on-one with Baier — during which a young child, presumably Musk’s 4-year-old son, X, could be heard becoming restless in the background — the DOGE chief was also asked to reveal something about Trump that most people wouldn’t know.
“I think the president is a good man. I think he is an honest man. I have yet to see him do anything mean or anything that is wrong, that I would say is morally wrong,” he responded.
“Not even once.”
