Ex-CNN Reporter Has An Epiphany After His Own Tesla Is Defaced | JP
Anti-Elon Musk demonstrators across the US have taken out their aggressions on Tesla dealership and owners with a series of destructive protests in recent months.
While many in the mainstream media have downplayed or even excused such acts, one former CNN personality is singing a different tune now that he’s been on the receiving end of the leftist mob.
As the Daily Wire reported:
Former CNN politics reporter Chris Cillizza revealed on Wednesday that his Tesla was vandalized with a “Musk is a Nazi” sign at his son’s soccer tournament last weekend.
Cillizza, a left-wing journalist who worked for CNN from 2017 until 2022, wrote on his Substack that the vandalism is another sign that the politicization of every aspect of American life “is making us all crazy.”
Cillizza recalled the days when owning a Tesla meant “coding yourself as like an enviro-liberal-wacko-communist,” and now, in 2025, his car “symbolizes everything the left hates.”
“Doesn’t that suggest that there’s an inherent ephemeralness to what an inanimate object ‘means’ in a political context?” Cillizza added. “As in: If the meaning of owning a certain kind of car can change 180 degrees in the space of five years, isn’t it possible that ascribing meaning to it in the first place was misguided?”
In reality, he only bought it as a “cool” car that was really “fun to drive,” not as a “symbol of my support for Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration.”
Anti-Tesla activists have sparked significant social media backlash over the past few months:
Telsa protestors with HUGE signs openly calling for everyone to “Burn a Tesla, Save Democracy”
Where is the FBI? Where is the DOJ?
We know Democrats are PAYING FOR protestors with their NGO laundered money and Democrat donors
This is Domestic Terrorismpic.twitter.com/Xn6FCCmAV5
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 29, 2025
HOLY SHT 🚨 Multiple protestors arrested at Tesla for acting like a bunch of psychos
PROTECT ELON MUSK AT ALL COSTS
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) March 9, 2025
WOW! Will Johnson shuts down radical anti-American Tesla protest in Austin Texas. pic.twitter.com/Dut9ndiV9y
— Mr. Will Johnson (@ImMrWillJohnson) May 25, 2025
The anti-Tesla sentiment has gone global, as CBS News recently reported:
Sales of Tesla vehicles in 32 European countries tumbled 49% to 7,261 in April from 14,228 in the same month the previous year, according to the figures released by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, or ACEA.
At the same time, sales of battery-electric vehicles by all manufacturers rose about 28%, the group’s data shows.
The numbers are the latest indication of how much the Tesla brand is suffering because of the backlash against billionaire CEO Elon Musk over his far-right views. Crowds have gathered at Tesla dealershipsin both Europe and the U.S., with protesters objecting to Musk’s work with President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, which has slashed the U.S. federal workforce and been the subject of multiple lawsuits.
The protesters are aiming at Tesla to dent Musk’s fortunes, given that much of his wealth is tied up in shares of the electric vehicle maker.
Here’s what Cillizza had to say about the experience: