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Elon Musk’s father has told Sky News that protesters targeting his son’s cost-cutting work for the US government are “bums”.
Errol Musk was responding, in an interview with Business Live, to a growing backlash among US taxpayers and Tesla customers against his son’s role in the Trump administration-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The electric car firm has increasingly become the subject of sales boycotts and protests – neither of which have been consigned to the US though dealerships there have seen vehicles vandalised and even set alight.
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Musk Sr told presenter Darren McCaffrey: “To take notice of the bums that are trying to hurt Tesla by damaging cars, well that’s just plain silly. Nobody does that, you know, you use your brain… and (it) tells you these people are the problem, not the car.”
The anger directed at Elon Musk was “media hype”, he said as he also dismissed growing unease among Tesla investors that his son’s main business interest was suffering at a time when the challenges facing it are only rising.
Earlier this month one of Tesla’s earliest investors, Ross Gerber, told Sky News Mr Musk should step down as the electric carmaker’s chief executive unless he quit his work for the Trump administration.
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