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Tech billionaire Elon Musk's Tesla Motors posted its long-anticipated earnings report — and it painted a dire picture of the company, with net revenue plunging by three-quarters. Experts attributed a large part of the drop to people simply rejecting the brand, as Musk has become close with President Donald Trump and headed up his Department of Government Efficiency task force to dismantle the federal civil service.

Commenters on social media, including both Musk's own X platform and the alternative Bluesky platform, had a field day with the news.

"Tesla just reported what is likely the worst earnings for a mega cap tech company since Meta in February 2022," wrote hedge fund founder Spencer Hakimian.

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"A devastating Tesla earnings report today," wrote the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project. "Net income fell 71%. Total revenue slid 9% from $21.3 billion a year earlier. Tesla stock down 41% so far in 2025, suffered their worst quarterly drop since 2022."

"Tesla posts a $400M profit, down 71% year-over-year. Revenue is down nearly $2B compared to the same time last year. Wow," wrote Washington Post tech journalist and Musk biographer Faiz Siddiqui, adding that the numbers are even worse than they look, because, "Without $595M in automotive regulatory credits, which other manufacturers buy off Tesla to comply with emissions requirements, Tesla would have posted a loss this quarter."

"This is why Republicans were posting pictures with Teslas," wrote former Ohio state senator and progressive activist Nina Turner, referencing the promotional stunt Trump and Musk held with Tesla vehicles on the White House lawn last month.

"Tesla’s the Hindenburg, and frankly it couldn’t happen to a s------r company," wrote anti-Trump author and retired journalism professor Seth Abramson, who added that, "Teslas are — by the data — poorly made, dangerous, aesthetically passé, short on promised luxuries, tied to fascism, and feature poor customer service and allegedly jacked odometers."

President Donald Trump lashed out at U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee hearing a lawsuit over an executive order against law firm Perkins Coie.

In a Wednesday message posted on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Howell an "unmitigated train wreck" after she declined to remove herself from the case.

"I’m suing the law firm of Perkins Coie for their egregious and unlawful acts, in particular the conduct of a specific member of this firm, only to find out that the Judge assigned to this case is Beryl Howell, an Obama appointment, and a highly biased and unfair disaster," Trump wrote. "She ruled against me in the past, in a shocking display of sick judicial temperament, on a case that ended up working out very well for me, on appeal."

Trump is thought to be upset with Perkins Coie after it hired Fusion GPS, which funded an investigation into him in 2016 and paid for the so-called Steele dossier on behalf of Hillary Clinton's campaign.

"I could have a 100% perfect case and she would angrily rule against me," the president whined. "It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome, and she’s got a bad case of it. To put it nicely, Beryl Howell is an unmitigated train wreck. NO JUSTICE!!!"

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For her part, Howell has accused Trump and the Department of Justice of trying to undermine the court.

“This strategy is designed to impugn the integrity of the federal judicial system and blame any loss on the decision-maker rather than fallacies in the substantive legal arguments presented," she wrote in one ruling against Trump's executive order.

“Adjudicating whether an Executive Branch exercise of power is legal, or not, is actually the job of the federal courts, and not of the President or the Department of Justice, though vigorous and rigorous defense of executive actions is both expected and helpful to the courts in resolving legal issues."