The US President has previously been a fierce opponent of electric cars.
In the White House yard in Washington, an exceptional show was featured on Tuesday. President Donald Trump Introduced to journalists Tesla’s electric cars from the company’s founder Elon Muskin with.
Generally, the heads of state are remaining impartial in the inter -business competition and do not start promoting individual companies
There was an advertising event for one company’s products off the White House. Trump had a handwritten tag in his hand with prices for different Tesla models.
In front of the White House, Trump sat in the Tesla wheel and admired the car’s computer system. He said he was going to buy Tesla the next day.
Tesla’s stock has plunged into
Musk is the richest person in the world, and Tesla is the largest of his companies. However, Tesla’s market value has fallen rapidly since Musk became Trump’s partner in politics.
He is now leading the DOGE Office, which is looking for savings in the US administration. Tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs with the agency’s decisions.
Due to Musk’s activities, Tesla has been subjected to a large boycott. Cars and charging stations are even vandalized. Trump said Tuesday that people who are attacking Tesla stores are terrorists.
The value of Tesla’s share was at its highest at mid -December, when it was about $ 480. At the beginning of this week it had fallen to less than half, about $ 220. After Trump’s advertising event, the value of the share has risen by about $ 25.
Mind changed many times
Trump’s Tesla advertising is confused because he has sometimes been a fierce opponent of electric cars. In his speeches, he has strongly supported gasoline -powered cars.
In his article on social media in December 2023, he named electric cars defenders as “crazy” who are trying to destroy the United States.
– They can rotten in hell, Trump raged.
Trump has also convinced that electric cars cannot drive far without recharging a little. In his election campaign, he said to his audience that “electric cars are the idea of a radical left, fascists, Marxists and Communists.”
The Trump jacket has turned many times in terms of electric cars.
During his first presidential term in 2020, he praised an electric truck as an “incredible vehicle”.
Last year, he admitted that he had changed his mind about electric cars.
– I’m a supporter of electric cars. I have to because Elon has supported me so strongly, he said in August at his election in Atlanta.
Source: AP