Elon Musk’s Tesla. “Musk is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump is at this point,” said Cousins, a longtime activist who organized an anti-Tesla rally in a deep-red district in Central Florida last weekend,

Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk has drawn the ire of Democrats due to his role in the Trump administration‘s efforts to cut waste in the federal government, with some New York lawmakers targeting his company with a new piece of legislation.

Between his role in the mass firing of federal employees as the apparent figurehead of the Department of Government Efficiency (aka DOGE), to being accused of performing a Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration, and largely being referred to as the real person pulling Trump's puppet strings, he's been quite the controversial figure.