Singer Sheryl Crow announced that she sold her Tesla vehicle and then donated the proceeds to the National Public Radio (NPR) — as a form of protest against Elon Musk.
She posted to Instagram on Friday, happily waving goodbye to her Tesla as it was towed away. She wrote, “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 added, “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.”
Except, she really isn’t protesting Musk and his business considering she already bought the vehicle and he already made the money from it. All she did was get rid of a perfectly good vehicle in the midst of a tantrum.
🚨BREAKING: Sheryl Crow films embarrassing video of her getting rid of her Tesla in protest of Elon Musk, says she’s donating it all to NPR.
She really thought she did something here…. pic.twitter.com/c8yOLLAsCb
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 15, 2025
Breitbart reports:
Elon Musk — who in addition to being the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, heads the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — has called for NPR to be stripped of federal funding over its well-established bias against conservatives and other anti-establishment voices.
During the 2020 election, NPR censored the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, falsely telling its listeners that the story had been discredited.
NPR’s then-managing editor for news, Terence Samuels, even put out a statement at the time, saying: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
While the laptop story proved to be true, NPR still has not retracted its claim or apologized for misleading its audience.
Crow isn’t the first celebrity to get rid of their Tesla in protest. Actor Jason Bateman showed his beta boy colors in October after revealing that he also got rid of his Tesla due to Musk’s support of Trump.
He said, “I got rid of my Tesla. I feel like I’m driving around [with] a Trump sticker.”