Washington DC—The Tesla dealership protests are still going strong across the Region as hundreds of protesters continue to show up outside the electric vehicle (EV) dealerships. The grassroots Tesla Takedown actions are growing fast as spring weather brings out more people. Protests were repeated at Tesla dealerships in four locations across the region, Arlington, VA; Tyson’s Corner, VA; Rockville, MD; and Georgetown, Washington DC.
At the Arlington, Virginia Tesla, record numbers of protesters showed up to urge the public to ditch their Teslas and not to buy them in the future. Hundreds of cars passed the Tesla dealership every five minutes on the busy four lane South Glebe Road. Many motorists were blowing their horns in support of the good spirted protesters.
Protesters did not go onto the Tesla property or otherwise have interactions with Tesla employees.
The protests have lassoed a rare moment of public fury towards a specific brand—in this case Elon Musk’s EV car company is the intended target because he is its largest shareholder. Most of his paper wealth is tied up in the over-priced Tesla stock.
Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) invasion of dozens of government agencies, takedown of agency operations, and firing of or barring from work spaces as many as 100,000 Federal workers so far over the last 6-weeks, has created chaos throughout government and is tantamount to a coup. It is this takeover that has prompted the Tesla takedown actions—giving to Elon Musk what he has given to every U.S. citizen—chaos and lost fortune.
The damage DOGE has done to the information arm of the Federal government, often referred to as its bureaucracy, is incalculable. Gone are the privacy of hundreds of millions of citizens as Musk’s DOGE team has over the last 6 weeks forced access to nearly every computer database in Federal government agencies and taken the information in those databases for his own purposes. But even more damaging is the destruction of intricate government networks and systems themselves which were developed and improved over the last 80 years since the Federal government began providing many services communities depend on. The true value of these systems could be in the trillions because the value of the technologies built into these systems over this period are more than the sum of its costs.
Musk’s takeover and takedown of many agencies has left many wondering what is left in them to safeguard and protect, whether or not they can be rebuilt after Musk is gone, and whether U.S. allies will continue to trust U.S. Federal government operations in the future.
Lawrence MacDonald, an organizer with the group Third Act, put Elon Musk’s DOGE activities in the Federal government bluntly. “Elon Musk hates America. He’s out to destroy our country,” he said. MacDonald also took issue with the entire premise of DOGE being either efficient or cost saving. “No one voted for Elon Musk. Its a fascist coup and we’re here to stop it by damaging his brand.”
Lisa, a participant in Saturday’s action said “this is how we’re gonna make change, by people coming out here and all over the country.” She said that Congress had in effect lost the initiative and it was now up to the people. “The Democrats in Congress don’t have the attention, we do. We need to use it. We need to do this every day.”
DOGE isn’t just taking over Congressionally authorized agencies, unconstitutional and illegal as that is—the DOGE actions are also extending into agencies of the Department of Defense where 10s of thousands of Federal employees face elimination actions, buyouts, or reductions in force.
Tesla stock value is a good measure of how the company is performing, and it doesn’t look good. Tesla stock value has blown to bits like a crashing dick-rocket—down 45% from its high on December 17, 2025. It has lost value every week since the Trump regime came to power in January. That’s seven consecutive weeks of losses.
Since the last closing day before the inauguration on January 17, Tesla stock has dropped over 30%, taking with it a quarter of Musk’s wealth since the Trump regime came to power.
Incidentally, SpaceX performance isn’t doing very well either. Two of its rockets have failed during ascent since January. SpaceX is a privately owned company, and therefore access to its private stock is very limited. This also means it is not required to publish quarterly earnings, performance, or describe future expectations.
