We are all likely to have A bad daybut when you are someone with So many open fronts Like Elon Musk, a series of chained misfortunes can turn a bad day into A terrible week in which the entire universe conspires against you.
Wall Street and the street against Tesla. Tesla has become the Objective of protests against the role of his CEO at the head of the cuts in the Trump administration. The week began with investors hardly punishing the value of Tesla’s shares that 15% collapsed Only last Monday. As the days have passed, investors have been relaxing their movements giving a break to the manufacturer who He is recovering part of the lost in recent days.
However, Tesla’s actions have not been the only target of protests. According The published by ABC Newssome vehicle facilities of Tesla have suffered attacks and vandalism, generating concern about the safety and image of the brand. Donald Trump himself highlighted the escalation of Protests towards the brand qualifying protesters as “domestic terrorists.” “If you do it to Tesla or any other company, we will catch you and go through a hell,” said Trump in collected statements by the BBC.
X suffered a cyber attack. X has become the main speaker of Elon Musk and much of the US government, as Marco Rubio, which Use the social network to make public your institutional agenda. In that context, the social network experiment successive traffic falls during May 11. Elon Musk soon pronounced announcing that X was suffering a cyber attack. “There were (there are still) a massive cyber attack against X. They attack us every day, but in this case many resources were used. It is a large and coordinated group or a country,” wrote The millionaire in his social network.
According to published Wired, the cyber attack was claimed from Telegram by the Proportian hacker group Dark Storm Team. However, after an analysis of the traffic that generated the attack, the experts denied that Ukraine was behind him, like Musk said In an interview. The researchers They concludedthat not all X servers had safety layers against these ddos cyberbrains Cloudflareso they were exposed.
Starship has flown, but not as he wanted. The prelude to a disastrous week for Elon Musk was the Eighth flight failure Starship proof, which followed the same path as its predecessor disintegrating over the Atlantic. As happened with the seventh flight test, after the explosion the fragments of the ship fell generating a rain of debris that interrupted air traffic of Florida and a good part of the Caribbean, affecting more than 240 commercial flights.
As if that were not enough, Musk has seen how, 40 minutes from the take-off of the CREW-10 mission that was going to put a relief team for ISS and Bring back to astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, which They were trapped In the International Station after a failure in The Boeing Starliner I had to bring them back. If everything goes as planned, the Falcon 9 that will put the Dragon and its orbit crew will take off on March 14.
Chief problems: tensions in Washington. Elon Musk’s influence on Trump administration also seems to be supporting many pressures. One of the most revealing events was the tense encounter between Elon Musk and key figures of the Republican Party, including former president Donald Trump and Senator Marco Rubio during a meeting at the White House on the Doge cuts policy.
According to him Published article by The New York TimesMusk proposed significantly cutting the budgets for specific federal programs, including those related to the Department of Transportation. Marco Rubio, Florida senator, openly criticized Musk, describing his proposals as “ignorant” and arguing that Musk I was prioritizing corporate interests instead of the needs of citizens.
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