Elon Musk Suffers Late-Night Meltdown Over Murdoch Newspaper

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Leigh Kimmins Thu, May 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM PDT·3 min read 113   Photo Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Getty Images

Elon Musk went full Trump in a late-night all-caps tirade on X, slamming a Wall Street Journal report that claimed Tesla was actively seeking to replace him as CEO.

The Murdoch family-owned publication—which has regularly criticized Trump during his first 100 days back in office—reported Wednesday night that the eight-person Tesla board had contacted multiple executive search firms to initiate the hunt for a new leader while Musk was busy with his cost-cutting task force, DOGE.

Musk, who is himself a member of the board, got the message and publicly committed more of his time to the company he has run for 20 years. In response, the search was scaled back and the board worked with just one search firm, the Journal reported.

Musk reacted to the report on X at around 1:30 a.m. Eastern Thursday morning. Channeling his inner Trump, he hit the “caps lock” button and fired off a couple of strongly worded posts contesting the story.

In the first, he quoted a message from a Tesla spokesperson dismissing the report, adding: “It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the @WSJ would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors!"

The Journal cited “people familiar” with the purported search for a successor.

  Tesla has been plunged into turmoil in recent months, and sales have been hit as a result. / Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

“WSJ is a discredit to journalism,” Musk added in a later post.

A Tesla spokesperson, in a statement after the report was published, said the story was false and that the Journal was made aware of that pre-publication.

“Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company,” Robyn Denholm said.

“This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published). The CEO of Tesla is Elon Musk and the Board is highly confident in his ability to continue executing on the exciting growth plan ahead.”

A Wall Street Journal spokesperson contradicted Tesla in a statement given to the Daily Beast on Thursday.

“We stand by our reporting. Tesla was given the opportunity to provide a statement before publication, which they did not do,” the spokesperson said.

It is not the first time the Journal has found itself at loggerheads with President Donald Trump and his allies. The right-leaning newspaper’s editorial board has recently criticized the president’s Ukraine policy and his decision to remove security protection for former staffers.

A Journal editorial called Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on global trading partners the biggest “mistake in decades” and on Monday, in an editorial to mark the first 100 days of Trump’s second term in office, the paper warned him that a “major reset” was needed.

In an earnings call with Tesla investors last month, Musk announced that he would scale back his time with DOGE to just one or two days a week starting in May.

“There’s been some blowback for the time that I’ve been spending in government with DOGE,” he acknowledged.

The announcement came after Tesla reported that its profits had plummeted by 71 percent in the first quarter of 2025 on slumping sales in key markets around the world. The carmaker earned $409 million in the first three months of the year, down from $1.4 billion over the same period in 2024.

 
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希望这种贴对您本人有一定益处

估计大多数人不怎么敢信其内容 

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Tesla没有E龙,市值立即跌 3/4。谁怕谁?

Tesla最值钱的,不是造车,是E龙的Vision,没人能替他。要比造车,有许多公司比Tesla强几十倍。

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wave1234
今天dan ives接受采访,没有否认WSJ报道的真实性,还透露Board 要求Musk公开场合多讲他要离开DOGE了。
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wave1234
结果,昨天Musk在川普内阁会议上,特意戴了两顶MAGA帽子。政府有序的减开支,有专门的部门,确实也不需要DOGE了。
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wave1234
Musk 赖在白宫,也不知道是什么目的。
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greenfinger
谁信啊
三河匹夫
不想信当然可以不信,就像信教主那样的。。。哈哈。
玻璃坊
WSJ的报道绝对是真的,但是我估计也是董事会的策略

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