HAPPY NEW YEAR!🎆

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025. pic.twitter.com/q8dmesSCh9

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 1, 2025

Update: one person is dead and seven more were injured after a Tesla Cybertruck caught fire and exploded outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel.

Still crickets from Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/sHgtSUafec

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) January 1, 2025

As of February 17, 2024, 232 Tesla fires have occurred over 7 years. So an average of 30 per year, at least. That  site lists 11 cases of stationary Teslas exploding into flame over the same time period.

Finally Elon Musk weighs in on the Cybertruck Tesla exploding outside of Donald Trump's hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

But it's not the first time one of those things has caught on fire, so of course he lies. pic.twitter.com/6honzAMS51

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) January 1, 2025

Elmo is being disingenuous, at best.

A Tesla Cybertruck pulled up to the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas and exploded on New Year's Day, killing one person inside the vehicle, and authorities now say they're investigating the blast as a possible act of terror. 

Video of the Cybertruck exploding into flames in the valet area quickly spread on the internet. The footage was captured both from guests checking into the lobby and at least one person who saw smoke from the window of a nearby hotel. 

The driver of the vehicle died in the blast, which happened around 8:40 a.m., CNN reported. Seven bystanders suffered minor injuries, authorities said. The cause of the blast wasn't immediately known. 

An official briefed on the probe told ABC News that fireworks-style mortars were in the truck. Police were reportedly treating the blast as a possible crime and act of terror.

It’s possible this was staged for the optics more than anything else. But as an act of terrorism, it would seem more reasonable to use a gas powered car with a full tank.

And given the fact Teslas do combust spontaneously….

We’ll have to see what the investigation yields; including that report of fireworks. True? Coincidental? (The fireworks going off near me last night sounded like a military assault. Never really heard anything like it. So, yeah: coincidence is an option). Not true at all?

The optics are pretty bad, regardless.