March 21, 2025

President Donald Trump suggested Friday that people found guilty of attacking Tesla properties could serve their sentences in El Salvador prisons, sharply ramping up his rhetoric in defense of Elon Musk’s company amid an intensifying backlash.

The president’s threat on Truth Social added to his administration’s increasingly vocal support for Musk, the billionaire and Trump megadonor who is now leading the divisive government-slashing initiative known as the Department of Government Efficiency.

The efforts to back up Musk have come as Tesla’s stock price has plummeted in recent months, shrinking the EV maker’s value by hundreds of billions of dollars. At the same time, Tesla cars and showrooms have become targets for arson attacks and vandalism.

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