Elon Musk slammed the alleged “puppetmasters” behind anti-Trump protesters this weekend after viral video confirmed protesters struggling to clarify why they imagine President Donald Trump is a “fascist.”
“The issue is the puppetmasters, not the puppets, because the latter do not know why they’re even there,” Musk posted to X on Sunday accompanied by video footage of protesters stumbling over what points they’ve with Trump.
“He simply does the whole lot he desires… He is a convicted felon, you recognize, that is all I do know,” one protester within the video stated after tripping over why he believes Trump is a “fascist,” whereas holding an indication studying, “The Fascist Trump Regime Should Go.” The footage was recorded by Ted Goodman, a political strategist who launched a livestream program with former New York Metropolis Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on Saturday in Washington, D.C.
“One of many issues is he is making an attempt to regulate the media,” one other protester within the video responded when requested for proof Trump is allegedly a “fascist.”
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Anti-Trump protesters throughout Washington, D.C., demonstration. (Ted Goodman)
“Would not each president attempt to management the narrative?” Goodman pressed.
“They attempt to management their very own narrative. However one of many issues that Trump has achieved, for instance, is the renaming the Gulf of Mexico after which not permitting the Related Press to return into the White Home,” the protester continued.
The primary protester defined within the video that he was there after he “noticed folks have been hanging out,” whereas the second protester defined he was there on account of “govt overreach.”
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A demonstrator is dressed because the fictional character Waldo through the protest on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 2025. (Bryan Dozier/Center East Pictures/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
The primary protester added that he had been given an indication describing Trump as a “fascist,” in addition to a printed one-sheeter that declared, “We face fascism… The time to behave is now!” alongside a photoshopped picture of Trump with a Hitler-styled mustache.
Video of the protesters racked up greater than 12 million views on X by Sunday afternoon.
One-sheet paper at an anti-Trump rally in Washington, D.C. (Ted Goodman )
Greater than 1,200 protests have been held throughout the nation on Saturday as critics gathered to protest the administration, the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), reciprocal tariffs, federal layoffs and immigration reform.
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“[I’m] protesting how horrible issues have change into in our nation,” one protester advised Fox Information Digital from an indication in New York on Saturday. “I imply, we have been taken over by a bunch of robber barons who’re making an attempt to remove all of our rights, advantages and liberty.”
Folks collect to protest the Trump administration on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 2025. (Bryan Dozier/Center East Pictures/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
“I’m protesting what is going on with this blessed nation, the democracy that was superior democracy now in transition to a dictatorship, and we’re nearly in a fascist state proper now – solely as a result of the rule of legislation is bending proper now, and it might break,” one other protester advised Fox Digital.
The protests this weekend observe mass protests focusing on Tesla final weekend. Elon Musk, who helps lead DOGE and is a staunch Trump ally, is the CEO of Tesla and has seen anti-Trump critics bodily assault, monetarily boycott, and protest the automobile firm over his politics.
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“Who’s funding and organizing all these paid protests?” Musk posted to X final weekend of the current anti-Tesla protests.
Elon Musk’s Tesla showroom areas have confronted repeated protests over his position in DOGE. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
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Amid the protests, an area information outlet, media personalities and conservative critics speculated that the anti-Tesla protests have been embroiled in “astroturfing,” which is outlined by Merriam-Webster as a marketing campaign “falsely made to look grassroots.”
Fox Information Digitals’ Kaylee Holland and Madeline Coggins contributed to this report.
