Are you buying a Tesla will boost Tesla sales and boost their stock?

Look, look.

Was that your bold?

I do this?

I care about one thing.

When somebody's a great patriot, they shouldn't be heard.

He's a great patriot.

Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin.

That was President Donald Trump speaking at the White House on March 11th,

when he effectively turned it into a Tesla showroom.

He also made a show of buying a Tesla Model S at the event.

Why?

Tesla's stock price had fallen more than 40% since January.

Some of that drop can be attributed to uncertainty about potential tariffs and increased competition

in the electric vehicle space, but some of it is no doubt due to consumer protests following

Elon Musk's recent public statements and actions.

Now, as most of you no doubt remember, the public narratives started flipping on Musk a few years ago,

with his grand promises about a troubled prototype called the Cyber Truck,

which would debut to lukewarm sales and vast recalls. He also bought,

gutted, and turned Twitter, now X, into a space where hate speech flourishes. Things continued

to ramp up as Musk sidled up to Trump and inserted himself and his far-right ideology

into U.S. politics. His new role in the Trump White House

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