June 2025 - Tesla shares fall by 14% in a day. Panic, stop-losses, funds are fleeing. Who is to blame? Not Elon. Not AI. Not even the production reports. The reason — a tweet. But not an ordinary one.
It was a tweet from Donald Trump.
And now imagine: the President of the United States (for a moment, the sitting one) calls Elon Musk 'a crazy bastard' and claims that SpaceX receives too much from the government and behaves like 'a private monarchy.'
📉 What is happening:
Tesla — down $150 billion in market capitalization in a day;
Twitter (or Truth Social) explodes;
investors don't understand who is now more important: innovation or the mood of the White House.
From the market's perspective, Musk is the company, and any attack on him is perceived as a business risk;
From a political perspective — the president is simply pulling the blanket over himself. Who is cooler?
The peak of absurdity:
After Trump's tweet, some traders began shorting not Tesla, but innovation indices. Like, what if he says something about Apple tomorrow?