Sheryl Crow sells Tesla in anger, lashes out at ‘President Musk’

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Sheryl Crow has sold her Tesla to protest cuts Elon Musk is administering as the head of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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“My parents always said… you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla,” Crow, 63, captioned an Instagram video of herself smiling and waving as her Tesla was carted away as Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman’s Time to Say Goodbye played over top.

The multi-Grammy winner told her more than 684,000 followers that she was giving away the proceeds from the sale of her car.

“Money donated to @npr, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes that the truth will continue to find its way to those willing to know the truth,” she added.

Crow closed her message by adding hashtags for #PresidentMusk as well as #PresidentTrump and #ProtectTheConstitution, and the main phone number for the U.S. Capitol.

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The All I Wanna Do hitmaker later returned to Instagram to respond to critics who pointed out the video was recorded in the fall. Crow said that she sold the car “right after” Trump’s re-election and added that she donated the money to NPR because the service is “something that I care about.”

“I didn’t know my post was going to blow up like it did … This is the week I got the confirmation back that the money went to NPR …. It’s where I get my news,” Crow said.

Although her post generated more than 214,000 likes, many of the comments slammed the Soak Up the Sun singer, accusing her of “virtue signaling.”

“Elon is exposing billions in fraud and wasteful spending of our taxpayer money and instead of applauding him and saying thank you, you’re mad about it?” one person asked. “The crazy thing is this would have continued to go on for years had it not been for Trump and Elon. Thank God we have common sense back in the White House.”

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Crow has been a frequent critic of Trump’s. Back in 2017, during an appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, she called his first 144 days in office “nothing but chaos” and said, “It’s my hope that sooner than later he’s not in office anymore.”

“It actually has kept me up at night,” she said during Trump’s first term. “It’s infiltrated our daily lives in a way that is, for me, not healthy… I’m concerned about our democracy, what we count on as Americans. We don’t know what the truth is.”

Crow also wondered why many Americans cast their vote for Trump the first time around.

“I feel sad for the people that voted for him, that are still hoping he’s going to deliver for them,” she explained. “There are a lot of people who are hurting in America just like all over the world and they believed in him, and it’s been my worry from the very beginning.”

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In an interview with the Syndey Morning Herald that same year, Crow said “most of the things (Trump) stands for are completely antithetical to what the U.S. is based on and founded on.”

“How can someone work every single day to make sure the country is divided? It breaks my heart,” she said at the time, adding that “He undermines (America) with his … I want to say ineptitude but unfortunately it’s deeper than that.”

With Trump’s blessing, Musk is on a crusade to dramatically reduce parts of the federal government and cut back on financial aid distributed to organizations like NPR.

“The people voted for major government reform, and that’s what the people are going to get,” Musk said last week. “That’s what democracy is all about.”

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So far, in a post on its website DOGE says it has found $55 billion in savings through a combination of efforts, including a reduction in the federal workforce, fraud detection, cancelling or renegotiating leases and contracts and more.

But Musk’s role as lead some liberals to accuse the tech billionaire of leading a “shadow presidency.”

In response, Trump called the allegations a “hoax.”

“No, he’s not taking the presidency,” Trump said in December at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference in Arizona. “You know, they’re on a new kick. All the different hoaxes. The new one is that President Trump has ceded the presidency to Elon Musk. No, no, that’s not happening.”

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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