Elon Musk Suffers Late-Night Meltdown Over Murdoch Newspaper

The under-fire Tesla chief was rattled by a Wall Street Journal report that said the company wanted him out.

Elon Musk went full Trump in a late-night all-caps tirade on X, slamming a Wall Street Journal report that claimed Tesla was actively seeking to replace him as CEO.

The Murdoch family-owned publication—which has regularly criticized Trump during his first 100 days back in office—reported Wednesday night that the eight-person Tesla board had contacted multiple executive search firms to initiate the hunt for a new leader while Musk was busy with his cost-cutting task force, DOGE.

Musk, who is himself a member of the board, got the message and publicly committed more of his time to the company he has run for 20 years. In response, the search was scaled back and the board worked with just one search firm, the Journal reported.

Musk reacted to the report on X at around 1:30 a.m. Eastern Thursday morning. Channeling his inner Trump, he hit the “caps lock” button and fired off a couple of strongly worded posts contesting the story.

In the first, he quoted a message from a Tesla spokesperson dismissing the report, adding: “It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the @WSJ would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors!"

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