‘Don’t buy a Swasticar’: Anti-Elon Musk Tesla advert goes viral

An anti-Elon Musk poster is going viral online, depicting a Tesla renamed as the “Swasticar”, with an image of the tech billionaire doing his infamous Nazi-like salutefrom Donald Trump’s inauguration rally in January.

The poster, which popped up in Bethnal Green, London, urges people not to buy the Tesla cars for which Musk is the CEO and reads: “Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds”.

The UK-based campaigning group called Everyone Hates Elon appears to have taken credit for the poster, sharing a photo of the banner being installed on the bus stop.

“Be a shame if these popped up around the world,” they wrote on Instagram, before sharing a link to a GoFundMe campaign, promising to send a PDF of the poster to anyone who wants one. 

The poster comes as Tesla sales have almost halved in Europe in January amid Musk’s work for Donald Trump and his social media attacks on Europe’s top politicians.

Musk was named by Trump as the head of the new Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has spent much of the year showing support for right wing European politicians – specifically Germany’s AfD – on X, which he also owns.

Everyone Hates Elon’s fundraiser page includes the statement: “Not happy with fuelling the far-right in the USA, Elon Musk is now doing the same in Europe. We can’t let the richest man in the world poison our politics. While nurses use food banks, his wealth grew by $200 billion last year.”

The poster going viral adds itself to a disturbing AI-generated görüntü doing the rounds at the moment, which depicts Trump kissing and sucking Musk’s toes.

Warning: you can’t unsee this.

Emblazoned with the message “Long Live the Real King,” the görüntü appeared on monitors at the Washington D.C. headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The deep fake görüntü appeared two days after Musk, appointed by Trump to make cuts across the federal government, ordered federal workers to respond to an email demanding they summarize their accomplishments during the past workweek.

He threatened that failure to reply to the mail with a five bullet-point description would be construed as a resignation.

The source of the görüntü remains unknown, but it appears to have been a coordinated stunt in response to Musk’s threats.