Trump says he’ll label attacks on Tesla locations as domestic terrorism

At a White House event where he promised to buy a Tesla, President Donald Trump says he’ll label violence at Tesla locations as domestic terrorism.

Here’s what Trump said while standing next to Musk:

Questioner, off screen: Mr. President, talk to us about some of the violence that has been going around the country at dealerships. Some say they should be labeled domestic terrorists…

Trump: I will do that. I’ll do it. I’m going to stop them. We catch anybody doing it… because they’re harming a great American company.

“We already know who some of them are, we’re gonna catch them,” Trump said. “And they’re bad guys.”

A Bluesky account representing the Tesla Takedown movement says in response to the comments, “We are a nonviolent grassroots protest movement. We oppose violence and destruction of property. Peaceful protest on public property is not domestic terrorism. They are trying to intimidate us. We will not let them succeed.

The statement also says that “it’s ironic that Donald Trump wants to label our peaceful movement as domestic terrorism. This is the man who sent a violent crowd to Capitol Hill to steal an election he lost, then pardoned more than 1,600 rioters who were found guilty by juries of their peers of serious crimes against the United States of America.”