"We want Elon Musk out of the government."

Tesla Takedown is a protest movement that grew out of the fury at the actions of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Musk, the world’s richest man, gave Donald Trump and Republican Party $290 million for the 2024 election cycle, thus becoming the largest individual donor during that election.

Since Trump assumed office in January, Musk - who gave a Nazi salute at a Trump inaugural event and has repeatedly posted and shared white supremacist and Nazi revisionist content on the former Twitter, now known as X, the platform he also owns, has become a Senior Advisor to the president and in that capacity heads up the work of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk - whom the Wall Street Journal reported last year has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine on a fairly consistent basis - has set about using the DOGE as a means to, among other endeavours, dismantle the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - an activity which a federal judge in Maryland temporarily blocked earlier this week, saying that it was likely unconstitutional - has demanded access to sensitive taxpayer data via the the Social Security Administration and, as reported by the Washington Post, exposed that data in unsecured areas outside Social Security offices and overseen or planned for mass firing at the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Health and Human Services the National Parks Service and other entities. At the same time, Tesla stock has been in a downward spiral for weeks, having fallen by 44% thus far in 2025. Earlier this month, JP Morgan's predicted that Tesla will report its worst quarterly deliveries in 3 years while RBC Capital Markets and Mizuho also lowered their price targets for Tesla stock.

Adam Sheridan is the volunteer Lead Organizer for Cooper River Indivisible, an affiliate chapter in southern New Jersey of the national Indivisible organization, which is a progressive movement and organization in the United States initiated in 2016 as a reaction to the first election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. He has been extensively involved in the Tesla Takedown protests in the area and joined us to talk a little bit about its activities and its goals.