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Trump Supporters Organize Counter-Protests Supporting Elon Musk and DOGE at Tesla Takedown Rallies at Dealerships Nationwide on Saturday

March 29, 2025

Protesters at a Tesla dealership in the Easton shopping district in Columbus, Ohio, photo by Kristinn Taylor, March 22, 2025.

Counter-protests organized by Trump supporters are expected at several of the anti-Elon Musk “Tesla Takedown Global Day of Action” protests at Tesla dealerships across the country on Saturday.

Democratic Party politicians and progressive activists are trying to ruin Musk’s electric vehicle business over his leadership of DOGE, President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency aimed at reforming and streamlining the federal government.

A Trump supporter in Columbus, Ohio is organizing a peaceful counter-protest Saturday afternoon starting at 4 p.m. at the Tesla dealership in the Easton shopping district in suburban Columbus.

The anti-Musk Columbus protest is a weekly permitted rally that runs from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Last Saturday the protest drew between 400 and 500 mostly older progressives–and one obnoxious Antifa activist with a bullhorn.

Columbus police are expected to be on hand to keep the peace between the two sides on Saturday. One thing that will help keep everyone in line is that the Tesla dealership is located on Easton shopping mall property. Worse than being arrested, protesters who act up could be banned from shopping and dining at the popular Easton Town Center.

NBC News reported on the efforts to organize counter-protests for Saturday (excerpt):

Trump supporters are mobilizing, too. NBC News found posts on Facebook and X for 10 counterprotests that his supporters are trying to organize, saying they wanted to counteract progressives and support a Trump ally. Some are billing their events as a “Tesla Shield.”

Terry Beck, a pro-Trump organizer in northern New Jersey, said she’s trying to line up a caravan of Trump-supporting vehicles including trucks and motorcycles to greet anti-Tesla protesters in Lawrenceville, near Trenton, on Saturday. Though not a long-standing Tesla supporter, she said she backs Musk because of his work for Trump.

“He’s proven his record. I look up to him. Every person should look up to him,” she said. She added that even if the Saturday protests are entirely peaceful, her opinion is that the anti-Tesla protesters are still “backing the crime” of vandalism committed by others.

Nationwide, at least 11 Tesla dealerships, charging stations and other facilities have been hit in reported attacks, including the incendiary devices found at an Austin, Texas, showroom Monday. The reported incidents have involved Molotov cocktails, graffiti, gunshots and suspected arson. Individual Tesla owners have also reported being targeted including with keying and graffiti. The Justice Department last week announced charges against three people, and this week the FBI said it was launching a task force to investigate attacks targeting Tesla.

A counter-protest is planned at the Austin, Texas Tesla dealership where several incendiary devices were found earlier this week:

Also in the Chicago suburbs of Orland Park and Schaumberg, Illinois:

A call to action in Arizona:

Laura Loomer has compiled a list of Tesla protest locations and is encouraging video documentation of any violence to be sent to her Tesla Takedown WatchDOGE page at X:

Thread with a list of Saturday’s protests:

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