Elon Musk at a Tesla event this week: "Tesla's will be available worldwide. So overall, it's good. If you read the news, it feels like Armageddon. So I was like, I can't walk past the TV without seeing a Tesla on fire.

Protests against Tesla have erupted around the world, sending the EV maker’s stock plummeting, tanking car sales, and angering investors.

A Trump Cabinet secretary violated the law when he told TV viewers this week to buy Tesla stock, but it's not clear that anything will be done about it.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed that there will never be a better time to buy Tesla stock, in what legal scholars say could be a Hatch Act violation.

As the White House appears to go “all-in on propping up Tesla’s stock,” political polarization is moving from companies and their products — think: Bud Light — to the stock market.

One presidential historian says he can’t recall “a single instance when an administration endorsed a particular company.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick used a TV appearance to recommend the public buy shares in Elon Musk's car company, saying: "It's unbelievable that this guy's stock is this cheap. It'll never be this cheap again.