Elon Musk Warns That Tesla Board Could Fire Him "If I Go Crazy"

A sampling of Musk actions: becoming an ultra-close ally of a deeply polarizing president, having screaming matches with that man's senior staff in the White House, breaking up with said president in explosive fashion, alienating members of both major political parties, furthering racist conspiracy theories, spreading disinformation relentlessly, and vowing to establish a third political party. That's just 2025. Several stages from "crazy." Obviously.

If??? If he goes crazy???

Little late for that...

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Can someone check on Elon? How far removed do you have to be from your own company and own actions to somehow put out a statement like this in July 2025?

Thed most amazing part of this is none of this has anything to do with Tesla. So this in an of itself should check the Crazy box. But constantly lying to the public, pushing a vehicle into production that EVERYONE said was shit (the CT), constantly moving the goalposts, buying a social media platform that amplifies his own views and then spouting garbage about tesla, spacex, and eveyrthing else - it just goes on and on. The world DETESTS the man. He is toxic to the Tesla brand.

Something about a ship having sailed belongs here.

My first comment already in here…

Came here to say that ... I would say that ship sailed at the Cave/submarine thing, perhaps before although he (or his staff) hid it better before that.

My second comment already here.

Photo choice is👨‍🍳💋.

Done crossed that bridge

If you read what he said in the article, he is angling to get more shares so “activist investors” can’t override him because he only has 13% of the company. So he’s trying to get a “super genius bonus package” back to have at least 40% of the shares is my guess.

So in his mind, he hasn't gone crazy yet. Got it.

"if"

pretty sure we are beyond crazy.

Obviously not true.

The same Tesla board that is made up exclusively by his family and friends, serves at his will and has been allowed to build generational wealth selling free stock they've been given? Fuck, that might be his biggest lie yet.

“*IF*” ??

Nothing is going to happen, because in order for something to happen, first a lot of people with inflated egos would have to admit error

You all just listed so many things that would get any other CEO immediately terminated, and didn’t even touch the Nazi salute, that really says it all.

Another check in the crazy box. That polarizing president he helped elect is absolutely against electric vehicles. Musk essentially shanked Tesla.

Who is he warning?

Yeah, it’s clear that they can’t actually.

I listened to this live and the guy asking the question was the most slobbery suckup sycophant you can imagine. He was basically asking "Elon, do you feel you can do your job effectively WITHOUT the $54B pay package?" Can you believe these people

I wonder when Howard Hughes said something similar. I used to think Elon was the next iteration of Hughes, but Hughes was both an incredible businessman and a great engineer. As we have seen, Musk is neither although if he suddenly moves to Vegas and starts living out of a hotel room crapping on the floor they will finally have something in common.

If Musk did a Nazi salute, instead of my heart goes out to you salute, then they might fire him. If Musk did a whole heck of a lot of drugs, instead of just a lot of drugs, they might fire him. If Musk insisted his car company focus on making an electric car that no one would ever want, instead of a vehicle that very very few people could ever want, they might fire him.

Please define crazy?

I think his definition of “crazy” is probably something else.

The only place it is impossible to go to is the place you already are.

Little late for that

He’s already crazy, so what are they waiting for?

That ship has sailed.

I mean. have they not seen enough. This is when having your brother on the board and a bunch of stooges makes you realize they're not a board, just his friends

Is there an “again” missing in this quote?

Also, popping off a few sieg heils at a presidential political rally.

He is the only thing holding Tesla back

Too late……

You have proved yourself wrong to many times. It's a little like your forever-on-its-way “AutoPilot” self-drive. Do the American people a favor and let your self-driving Tesla drive you around some.

A little too late for that. Amd tesla board members are pieces of shit the would never

Should have been gone a long time ago. He needs to go attempt to occupy Mars already.

If I go crazy will you still call me Space Karen?

He sieg heiled twice.

That ship has sailed a long time ago lmao

Dismantling regulatory agencies and active investigations into his companies does have something to do with Tesla.

one day elon will be dead and in a casket and the Tesla board will still be licking his anus

That word should win the olympics with the amount of heavy lifting it’s doing.

Alt control delete, a reset is needed

Little late for that don’t you think?

That boat has sailed. The board has settled that they'll not get rid of Elmo, else they risk a massive lawsuit by investors, who'll claim the board cost them billions by ousting this South African racist

I know. How would we tell?

When is this supposed if?

“If”? If Leon has certifiable and demonstrable defects. What’s with “if”?

Should've substituted crazy with radicalized, then Telsa would sell again because he is gone.

They could, but they know no honest CEO would pay them as much as Elon does.

Obviously, they can't.., because he already has...

Bit late, no?

What is the downside to this?

They only care about the stock price. As long as it stays inflated, they will leave him in place, regardless of that fact he is clearly ‘crazy’.

Spoiler alert: he did go crazy

If Musk insisted on ignoring SOP for over 5 decades of rocketry and directly meddling in the process, resulting in the catastrophic loss of multiple test stands and failed test flights for a crucial NASA mission component…

Aren’t his brother & cousin on the board?

Board definitely not doing the stockholder any service..

Unless they cryofreeze him and keep him in a tube at the head of the table like a mummified oracle…

Whoa whoa whoa there pardner, that's Space-X. This is Tesla, a publicly traded company, with a board with RESPONSIBILITIES. Space-X is a happy-fun-time private company.

Haha the top comment can only be "If...?"

Uh…what?

GLJ Research reiterates SELL rating and lowers price target to $19.05!!!!! Nineteen dollars and 5 cents. 100% agree!

Seriously. I know he was crazy when he called an expert a pedo on Twitter in 2018.

I think at this point, Musk might TRY to get fired by the board. The writing is on the wall for Tesla. It's not doing well in any areas, and it's sales are crumbling, and will do even worse once the EV subsidies go away. I wouldn't be surprised if he's hoping for some kind of big buyout and golden parachute (even though he's already ultra wealthy) and then to leave. Then he can watch as Tesla crumbles, and he can say "See? Look what happened the moment they got rid of me! Tesla was GREAT until they fired me!"

When Zuck goona wallop him?

So what are they waiting for then?

"If"

If they ever wanted to fire him, they would have done it already... He could drive over a line of 50 schoolkids and nobody at the board would bat an eye

Who needs a warning?

Too late

This somehow reads like a warning to shareholders/everyone else, when it’s him who is in charge of how batshit crazy he is and ultimately him who will lose

Threatening us with a good time?

Go crazy?

I had to get rid of my Model 3, even though it was a really good car, because of this psychopath.

If the board fired him he could deny responsibility for Tesla’s failure and get away with a nice package at the same time. It’s probably what he wants.

Not it can't. He is the meme behind the meme stock. It's all BS.

“If”… yeah think that ship sailed half a decade ago.

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so all the recent shit is him NOT going crazy? I cant WAIT FOR THE DAY that they fire him and rehabilitate the company. Its the only way I'd ever consider buying one ever again

Obviously not.

Elon's Nazi salutes weren't enough for them?

That horse has already left the barn.

He’s already gone full blown Nazi.

You mean like hacking an election, bribing a pedophile president for influence, getting punched in the face, ending both ev credits and carbon credit that your company needs to stay profitable, seig heiling on MLK day, saying Germany shouldn't be ashamed of it's nazi past, funding German neo nazi party with Tesla funds, calling the ai purchased from tesla stock loans Mecha-Hitler, putting Mecha-Hitler in the cars, and now going on to build Hitler skynet druids? Like that kinda crazy?

Define crazy

If? Too late for that dumbass.

Yep, imagine what the BOD would do if he did something wild like use $hundreds of $billions of his own money to elect a guy who squashes Tesla's subsidies. If he did something crazy like that, he'd get the boot for sure!

Then he could become a cook at his diner

I think "If" is being taxed even more.

Wtf? What does he see as crazy, killing someone?

The board ís hostage to his behavior. Useless and should be noted as such. Howard Hughes vibes

“If”, “IF”!!?!?!?

I’ve said this before. Anyone can be fired!

Fucking do it already

I wonder if that policy happened before or after people started applying bumper stickers to their cars and that they purchased them before he went crazy?

The only thing keeping Tesla’s stock price inflated is some people’s irrational worship of this developmentally disabled (his mother’s words, not mine) manchild. If they fire him, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

Train has left the station

Yeah, we are well past crazy

The board has a time machine?

Anyone who supports trumpy is crazy... all 77 million of them.

He’s not crazy. He’s just not very smart and uses craziness/mental illness/autism to justify his inauthentic personality and lack of any ability other than being a huckster for fools.

"I'm the only sane one left!" - Elon Musk

That is a sassy take for a publication. Respect.

But clearly saluting hitler is tolerable

Pretty sure the Tesla board made it clear they would roll over and play dead if ordered to by Musk when they constantly fought for him to get his $56 billion bonus (or whatever stupid amount). Any responsible board would veto that immediately since giving payouts higher than combined assets of a company is generally poor business making. So no they are no check and anyone that thinks they are must be a delusional Musk fanboy.

It's just a veiled threat against the shareholders who own this thing at a nearly 200x forward PE He could murder 20 people in broad daylight and the board would still retain him.

He already… no?

Prior experience shows the board will NOT fire him when he goes crazy.

Sounds like a good idea in that scenario…

That DID have a rather negative impact on sales…. Proving that most people don’t like the idea..

Right but his definition of crazy is if he actually starts doing useful things with all that hoarded wealth

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The Tesla board definition of Crazy\*. \*Human sacrifice live on national TV.

Howard Hughes was a genius engineer who excelled across a wide range of industries over a 40 year career. His decline was almost certainly related to multiple traumatic brain injuries. Musk is just a grifter who relies on government subsidies for everything he does.

Ah… the eternal conundrum of whether or not we really want to see what Leon Skum considers crazy behavior.

Oh, so obviously then everyones wrong that you already went crazy... Thanks for clearing that up Tesla.

Yeah, that's what I have been thinking.  He will want to try to preserve his reputation of a "genius" at all costs, that's what keeps people investing in him and believing his bullshit

No sacrifice is too big to temporarily boost share price

Isn’t the job of the board to do just that?

I mean, the board does sell stock at every chance they get.

He was doing well until he fired his PR team.

Or his baby Mama's that work for him.

If

Elon is already responsible for the dead of hundreds of thousands of poor children when he shutdown USAID.

“If” he goes crazy? I think we need to rewind the tape.

Posted the same thing before seeing this…..still true though.

The board is criminally complicit. They all need to be removed and never have a board seat anywhere else. They can visit Elon in prison.

Sailed his flaming dumpster right into and through the bridge over shit creek

Also, when he said that, the person he was replying to interjected and said “yeah but you’re not going to go crazy Elon. A little bit crazy is ok.” It’s a cult.

If he is doing it on behalf of his company he should tell the stockholders that there are regulatory investigations into the company’s business practices, but not to worry because he has a plan to make them all go away. Nuke the government

Worked with a guy that was hired to do SM marketing/PR/IR for him – Musk fired him within 3 weeks. Dude left a stable job and everything. Luckily, our (then) employer took him back.

Picking a fight with your liberal customers which created half of your customer base is crazy af! My first rule of business is to be apolitical and not take any sides.

burned that bridge while crossing it

Whaddaya mean if, my son?

Dude has neurosyphilis.