President Donald Trump is putting anti-Tesla vandals on notice, calling them “sick terrorist thugs,” and suggesting that they serve 20 year sentences in El Salvador.
On Truth Social Thursday night, Trump warned that people who are caught “sabotaging Teslas will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to twenty years, and that includes the funders.”
The president stated in a separate post Friday morning: “I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!”
Last Saturday, the Trump administration deported 261 criminal illegal aliens to El Salvador, where they were incarcerated in the Terrorism Confinement Center, a maximum security “mega prison” for violent gang members.
Trump’s warning comes amid an organized wave of left-wing political violence against Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company.
Earlier this week, five Tesla vehicles at a Tesla service center in Las Vegas and two Tesla cybertrucks at a dealership in Kansas City were set ablaze. In Oregon, shots were fired at a Tesla dealership, in San Diego a dealership was hit by vandals, and in Massachusetts, charging stations were torched.
And in too many cases to count, anti-Musk vandals have also been caught on video keying cars. Many of these culprits have been identified and arrested as Tesla vehicles are equipped with cameras.
In Lynnwood, Washington, a mother driving a Tesla was harassed and cut off by another driver in an incident she described as “terrifying and unprovoked.”
The other driver, a large man wearing a camouflage jacket and a ski mask, was caught on video walking toward her vehicle and demanding that she sell her Tesla because it’s a “Nazi” car. The woman told Fox 13 that the confrontation “felt very threatening and harassing,” and that she has since changed her route “opting for highways instead of back roads to avoid stop signs and feel safer.”
The woman said she has “filed multiple reports regarding the incident,” but it remains to be seen whether the man will face any consequences.
“The people attacking Teslas are trying to send the message that if you support President Trump, they will commit acts of violence to try to intimidate you,” Vice President JD Vance stated on Friday. “Our message to them? Terrorists in this country will be brought to justice.”
The FBI, Department of Justice and Homeland Security have prioritized investigations into the attacks targeting Tesla and conservative influencers nationwide, calling them acts of “domestic terrorism.”
On Wednesday, Bondi promised “severe consequences” for anyone involved in vandalizing or firebombing Tesla vehicles.
“We will continue investigations that impose severe consequences on those involved in these attacks, including those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes,” the attorney general said, referring to the dark money groups that often fund the organized left.
While Democrat politicians have been mostly quiet about the attacks, some, like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett are actively encouraging their base’s ongoing campaign to “Take Down” the E car company.
Left-wing organizers have planned a “global day of action” to “Take Down” Tesla on March 29, aiming for protests at 277 locations in the U.S. and 500 Tesla locations around the world. Indivisible, the main organizer of the “Take Down Tesla” movement, holds weekly conference calls with left-wing organizers and activists to lay out their plans.
Crockett, who apparently leases a Tesla luxury sports sedan herself, took part in a one hour Indivisible call on Wednesday.
The Texas congresswoman reportedly told the anti-Tesla activists that March 29 is her birthday, and “all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.”
As the Trump administration cracks down on the anti-Tesla domestic terrorism, “Tesla Take Down” organizers are trying to assume a nonviolent pose.
“A core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values,” the group’s website states.
Their messaging on social media, however, appears tailored to attract the most radical of activists.
“Let’s send these techno-fascists, broligarchs and old fashioned Nazis a message loud and clear. NO WAY,” a #TeslaTakedown organizer posted on the lefty platform Bluesky.
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