President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that attacks on Tesla dealerships would be classified as domestic terrorism, the same day he showcased his purchase of a red Tesla at the White House.
“I will do that. I’ll do it. I’m going to stop them … Those people are going to go through a big problem when we catch them,” he said in response to a reporter’s question about attacks while standing alongside Elon Musk, the CEO of the electric vehicle maker.
“We already know who some of them are,” Trump added. “We’re gonna catch ’em. They’re bad guys. They’re the same guys that screw around with our schools and universities — the same garbage.”
Trump also said that he feels the same about attacks on any American company, not just Tesla.
“Let me tell you, you do it to Tesla you do it to any company, you’re gonna go through hell,” Trump added.
There have been attacks on Tesla dealerships in Massachusetts, Colorado, New York, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which Musk is heading up at Trump’s request, released shocking findings that the Biden-Harris administration had awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts to an unexpected group: children.
An agency announcement revealed that the Small Business Administration disbursed $312 million in payments to companies whose purported owners are under the age of 11. This disclosure comes as DOGE works to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending.
“While it is possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, that is highly unlikely for these 5,593 loans, as they all also used an SSN with the incorrect name,” the agency wrote. “@DOGE and @SBAgov are working together to solve this problem this week.”
During the announcement, DOGE also disclosed that an additional $333 million was distributed in 3,095 loans between 2021 and 2022 to businesses owned by individuals aged 115 or older.
In one case highlighted by Fox News, a 157-year-old business owner received a total of $36,000 in grants, including funds from the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan, which were designed to help businesses survive shutdowns.
In cases involving businesses allegedly owned by children, Biden administrators approved nearly 5,600 such loans between 2020 and 2021—almost all of which were forgiven without repayment after the owners pledged to use the funds to avoid staff layoffs.
Now in its seventh week of investigation, DOGE has uncovered additional politically connected contracts linked to the Biden administration. One former member of the previous president’s transition team was tied to a nonprofit that secured over half a billion dollars in government grants to operate a Texas facility for migrants—a facility that was never utilized.
According to DOGE, the organization reported no other sources of revenue on its application.
All said, however, Americans’ trust in DOGE remains robust: Recent polls show that 72% back its mission, and Trump has even suggested that “DOGE dividends” could be returned to taxpayers as checks from the resulting savings.
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