{"id":28940,"date":"2025-06-03T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28940"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:23:37","slug":"tesla-protesters-claim-a-victory-as-elon-musk-leaves-trumps-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28940","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Protesters Claim a Victory as Elon Musk Leaves Trump\u2019s Side"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The activists behind the Tesla Takedown campaign say they intend to expand beyond protests at the company\u2019s showrooms.<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk left the Trump administration with a White House send-off<\/a> on Friday. That was a victory of sorts for a group of activists who have spent much of the last four months organizing protests against Mr. Musk\u2019s right-wing politics by targeting his electric car company, Tesla.<\/p>\n

A day later, on Saturday, hundreds of people showed up at more than 50 Tesla showrooms and other company locations to continue their protests.<\/p>\n

The campaign at Tesla sites began in February after Joan Donovan, a sociology professor at Boston University, gathered friends to hold a demonstration at a Tesla showroom in Boston, and posted a notice about her plan on Bluesky using the hashtag #TeslaTakedown. She said she had been inspired by a small protest at Tesla\u2019s electric vehicle chargers in Maine soon after President Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat first one on Feb. 15 was me and like 50 people,\u201d Ms. Donovan said. \u201cAnd then the next week it was a hundred more people, and then a hundred more after that, and it\u2019s just grown.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tesla Takedown has since expanded into an international movement, staging demonstrations at Tesla factories, showrooms and other locations in countries including Australia, Britain, France and Germany as well as across the United States. The campaign\u2019s U.S. growth has been fueled in large part by anger over Mr. Musk\u2019s leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency, which has slashed government spending and dismissed tens of thousands of federal workers while gaining access to sensitive personal data.<\/p>\n

Mr. Musk departed the administration after his involvement in politics hurt his companies, especially Tesla. Sales of the company\u2019s cars have tumbled since Mr. Trump took office and the start of protests against the company.<\/p>\n

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The activists behind the Tesla Takedown campaign say they intend to expand beyond protests at the company\u2019s showrooms.Elon Musk left the Trump administration with a White House send-off on Friday. That was a victory of sorts for a group of activists who have spent much of the last four months organizing protests against Mr. Musk\u2019s right-wing politics by targeting his electric car company, Tesla.A day later, on Saturday, hundreds of people showed up at more than 50 Tesla showrooms and other company locations to continue their protests.The campaign at Tesla sites began in February after Joan Donovan, a sociology professor at Boston University, gathered friends to hold a demonstration at a Tesla showroom in Boston, and posted a notice about her plan on Bluesky using the hashtag #TeslaTakedown. She said she had been inspired by a small protest at Tesla\u2019s electric vehicle chargers in Maine soon after President Trump\u2019s inauguration.\u201cThat first one on Feb. 15 was me and like 50 people,\u201d Ms. Donovan said. \u201cAnd then the next week it was a hundred more people, and then a hundred more after that, and it\u2019s just grown.\u201dTesla Takedown has since expanded into an international movement, staging demonstrations at Tesla factories, showrooms and other locations in countries including Australia, Britain, France and Germany as well as across the United States. The campaign\u2019s U.S. growth has been fueled in large part by anger over Mr. Musk\u2019s leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency, which has slashed government spending and dismissed tens of thousands of federal workers while gaining access to sensitive personal data.Mr. Musk departed the administration after his involvement in politics hurt his companies, especially Tesla. Sales of the company\u2019s cars have tumbled since Mr. Trump took office and the start of protests against the company.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28942,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28943,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28940\/revisions\/28943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}