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The Rachel Maddow Show

Musk tries to blame paid protesters for his wild unpopularity, collapse of Tesla

The Rachel Maddow Show

MSNBC

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4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

After Tesla showed a steep drop in profits and a sliding stock price, Elon Musk was quick to blame fake protesters for manipulating public opinion against him. Rachel Maddow takes a look at the very real protesters and polls of public opinion that suggest that Musk should reconsider the public appetite for destroying the U.S. government and firing public workers.

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0:00.0

Really happy to have you here. One quick thing before we get started, I'm coming to Maine, Portland, Maine.

0:05.6

I mentioned a few days ago that I'm doing a little book tour thing around the paperback release of my book prequel.

0:11.5

The paperback comes out on May 6th. I'm going to do just a handful of events.

0:16.7

We're sold out already in St. Louis and in Miami, Florida, but there are two of these events that I'm doing,

0:24.0

these live in-person events that I'm doing, where there are still some tickets right now.

0:28.3

Wednesday, May 7th in Boston, there are still some tickets. That's a huge venue. I don't think we're

0:34.0

going to sell that out, but I know there's still some tickets there.

0:42.5

Also, Friday, May 9th in Long Island, New York, there are still some tickets, I'm told.

0:48.8

But the new thing, the main thing I need to tell you is that we just added a whole new date and a whole new place.

0:55.8

Saturday, May 10th, I will be in Portland, Maine. And I would love to see you there. Come see me. It'll be fun.

1:00.1

You can find out more about that new event in Maine and all the others on our website,

1:07.0

MSNBC.com slash prequel. You can just hold the camera function on your cell phone up to that QR code on your screen, and that'll take you right there, or you can just type it in

1:11.1

yourself, MSNBC.com slash prequel to get tickets and all the details. All right, that's it. Business

1:17.8

over. Let's get to it. So I think the protests are really starting to bug them. I don't know if it's

1:26.0

the number of protests or the number of people protesting or the

1:30.9

fact that the protests really aren't going away and they keep seeming to grow. I don't know if it's

1:35.8

the tenor and good humor and peaceful nature of the protest that's bugging them. But I think they're

1:41.0

really getting bugged. I think it is really getting under their skin.

1:44.4

And here's one way we can tell.

1:47.0

Let's say you're the head of a big car company.

1:49.9

And then something happens to your car company.

1:53.2

And it's not happening to all car companies.

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