Tesla CEO Elon Musk has dominated the headlines in 2025, waging war on the federal workforce as the head of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, picking fights on his social media platform X and throwing himself into the first major election since Trump took office.

After plunging the federal government into chaos and eliminating thousands of jobs, Elon Musk appears to be planning an exit from the Trump Administration. This likely can’t come soon enough for Tesla owners and investors.

Tesla’s stock has plunged by roughly half since hitting a mid-December record as expectations of a lighter regulatory touch and big profits with Donald Trump as president were replaced by fear that the boycott of Musk’s cars and other problems could hit the company hard.

Elon Musk's job approval rating dropped to 41 percent, with his personal approval falling even lower, at just 38 percent.

This level of violence is insane and deeply wrong,” Musk wrote on X, sharing a video of burning Teslas in Las Vegas. “Tesla just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil

Four top officers at the company have unloaded more than $100 million in stock since last month, reported ABC News. They include James Murdoch, the estranged son of right-wing media magnate Rupert Murdoch, and Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal Musk, who shed $27 million, according to a Security and Exchange Control filing.