Elon Musk Crashed Out on Twitter Over Tesla Rumors

Elon Musk went on an unhinged, all caps (possibly ketamine fueled) rant fest on Twitter, all because of a Wall Street Journal report that claimed Tesla was looking to replace him as CEO.

This is shocking, coming from a newspaper owned by the infamous Murdoch family. The WSJ, which has called out Trump during his first 100 days back in office multiple times, reported Wednesday that Tesla's board had contacted multiple executive search firms to initiate the hunt for a new leader while Musk was busy ruiining the country over at DOGE.

Musk, fearful of losing his favorite toy, hastily announced his departure from DOGE so he can spend more time with his cash cow. In response, the search was scaled back and the board worked with just one search firm, WSJ reported.

Musk reacted to the article on Twitter at around 1.30 a.m. which is peak all-caps, Twitter tirade hours.

In the first tweet, he quoted a message from a Tesla spokesperson dismissing the report, adding: “It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the @WSJ would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors!"

“WSJ is a discredit to journalism,” Musk added in a later post, referencing the fact that WSJ was made aware that a Tesla spokesperson said that the story was false.

This isn't the first time the Journal has found itself at odds with Donald Trump and his allies. The right-leaning newspaper’s editorial board has recently criticized Trump over his Ukraine policy, and his decision to remove security protection for former staffers. The paper also called Trump’s insane global tariffs the biggest “mistake in decades” and warned him that a “major reset” was needed.

Crawling back to Tesla last month, a neutered Musk announced that he would scale back his time with DOGE to a paltry one or two days a week starting in May.

“There’s been some blowback for the time that I’ve been spending in government with DOGE,” he admitted.

All of this came after Tesla reported that profits had plummeted by 71 percent in the first quarter of 2025. The carmaker only earned $409 million in the first three months of the year, down from $1.4 billion over the same period in 2024.