Trump first said it was illegal not to buy a Tesla, then he said he was buying a Tesla, now he has slapped a 25% tax on anyone buying a car that isn’t a Tesla.

To be clear, the Trump Tesla Tax was designed to penalize all car companies other than Tesla. And not surprisingly Tesla put out propaganda saying it would be hurt by the thing designed to help it, because that’s how gaslighting works.

• Trump says he’s helping the people he actually hurts.
• People actually being helped by him say they will be hurt.

And up is down, down is up.

The disinformation doctrine is that nobody can stop a dictator when there is no truth left but whatever the dictator says in the moment.

All that anti-vaccine propaganda? It was strategic, meant to destroy faith in experts and scientific/critical thinking. It reconfigured society to be far more vulnerable to simple attacks, easily exploited by the biggest con artists unafraid to lie. That’s how we end up with the damage of a Trump Tesla Tax, expected to be as effective as Trump’s instant cure for COVID that killed millions instead.

For those watching the world reject the Tesla since January, and rightly so in places still able to think clearly, the defective and dated sub-par vehicle (the state-sponsored Trabant of America) has seen sales drop 90% while other EV sales are up, way up. Yet, there’s been one place notably still buying the Swasticar.

The UK.

Experts attribute this holdout, a bizarre remaining market for a Swasticar, to extremist right wing groups in the UK (white supremacist cells) who see a Nazi-saluting Tesla CEO as symbolic of their mission and beliefs.

In the rest of the world there simply aren’t as many extreme right wing activists as normalized in England. And to be fair, the English are not hesitant to call out their own Nazis.

Kudos to the Brits who studied history.

Now, in an ironic twist, the new Trump Tesla Tax meant to artificially juice American Swasticar sales, is instead immediately winding up resentment from the UK.

We are looking at the zero emission vehicle mandate which is why some of… that money goes to Tesla, and looking at how we can better support the car manufacturing industry in the UK.

UK finance minister Rachel Reeves is saying Tesla should be banned from any more government handouts. Makes sense, of course. The bogus “green” marketing loophole was allowed to dominate the Swasticar sales discussions before. Yet now the ugly Nazi reality of an aggressive foreign interventionist, imperialist tin-pot dictatorship, throwing dumb taxes around, is simply too hard to ignore anymore.

Oh, and the UK just banned Tesla marketing fraud.

…it is not even close to offering full self driving capability, a fact that has convinced the Department for Transport (DfT) in the UK to disallow most Tesla driver-assist features… If you told those people they had to stand over their toasters and monitor them constantly to prevent the toast from burning, they would think you were a perfect jackass.

The Tesla Trump Tax is backfiring, and is likely to make Tesla about as popular as when the East Germans (DDR) under the KGB (e.g. Putin) built a wall and mandated that everyone had to buy a Trabant.

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Axios Harris Poll 100:

Tesla’s reputation ranking in the Axios Harris Poll 100 has fallen significantly, from 8th place in 2021 to 63rd in 2024.

Consumer Perception:

Overall, Americans’ impression of Tesla has dropped, with YouGov finding a score of minus 12.7 in March 2025, the lowest since 2016.

Caliber’s “Consideration Score”:

Caliber’s “consideration score” for Tesla fell to 31% in February, less than half its high of 70% in November 2021.

Buzz Score:

Tesla recorded a negative buzz score (-18.2) compared to Volkswagen (9.3), indicating more negative than positive buzz in the past two weeks.

Purchase Intent:

Consumer purchase intent for Tesla is also low, with a 1.6% score compared to Ford at 10.8%.”