Elon Musk’s Shutdown Rant Mocked by Mark Cuban, Embraced by Conservatives
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Elon Musk drew criticism from some of his peers in the business community and cheers from conservative political circles after calling government shutdown orders aimed at containing a global pandemic “fascist.”
The chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. compared shelter-in-place measures to forcible imprisonment during a call to discuss the electric-car maker’s first-ever quarterly profit to start a year. Musk, 48, said he was worried about not being able to resume production in the San Francisco Bay area, which is home to his only vehicle assembly plant in the U.S.