Growing backlash against Elon Musk and his new role in President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency,
also known as DOGE.
Protesters taking out their anger on the Tesla car and owners were busy all over the country.
Tesla, the car company Musk founded and runs,
has seen its stock price fall dramatically, as you can see from this chart.
The moment of reckoning for Tesla's founder has arrived.
The company's earnings report showed that profits dropped 71% since this time last year.
On a call with investors this week,
Musk announced that he would spend a day or two per week on his Washington business,
but that he would mostly turn his attention back to the struggling company.
As Patrick George, the editor-in-chief of Inside EVs,
wrote in The Atlantic this week, luck runs out.
I think he thought he would come in and, you know,
gut the federal government and be seen as this great crusader and that everything would have worked out great just the way it always has.
He's had all this success before, right?
But now, like, people are, you know, they're running away from this company.
And that might be the greatest failure of all here.
I'm Hannah Rosen.
This is Radio Atlantic.
My colleague Charlie Worzel interviewed Patrick George recently about the tumultuous journey Tesla's been on.