Elon Musk recently shared a number of social media posts reacting to mass protests taking place across the US at Tesla facilities. | TAG24

After earlier demonstrations that were somewhat sporadic, Saturday marked the first attempt to surround all 277 of the automaker’s showrooms and service centers in the country in hopes of deepening a recent decline in the company’s sales.

A crowd urged a Tesla boycott and waved signs against Elon Musk at a "Tesla Takedown" protest in El Paso, Texas.

Organizers say today’s protests will be peaceful, but they are bracing for hostile confrontations with Musk and Trump supporters. Protesters are targeting Tesla because they believe its CEO Elon Musk is using the wealth the company has brought him to fund political actions they view as a threat to democracy.

Crowds protesting billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump began amassing outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. and in some cities in Europe on Saturday in the latest attempt to dent the fortune of the world’s richest man.

Elon Musk just sold X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, to himself? Well, kind of. Musk, in a post on X Friday, said that his artificial-intelligence company, xAI, has acquired X in an all-stock transaction that values X at $33 billion ($45 billion minus $12 billion in debt).

Mr. President! You talked about some of the violence that’s been going on at dealerships,” a reporter yelled to President Trump as he stood next to Elon Musk and a Tesla parked near the White House lawn earlier this month.

Crowds protesting billionaire Elon Musk’s cuts in the U.S. government under President Donald Trump began amassing outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. and in some cities in Europe on Saturday in the latest attempt to dent the fortune of the world’s richest man.

Hundreds gathered near Tesla’s University Village showroom and its Sodo facility Saturday, two of more than 200 protests planned around the world.