State Department Planning $400M Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks

Musk’s Election Spending ROI is 139% in less than a month

Less than a month after Trump took office, Elon Musk is poised to realize a 139% return on his $288 million investment to install Donald Trump into the White House, as the State Department announced it planned to spend $400 million purchasing a fleet of armored Tesla Cybertrucks.

Musk’s awkwardly designed and deeply flawed vehicle landed the State Department’s planned purchase at a time when Musk has put himself in charge of overseeing all government spending, contracts, and backend payment systems that Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff and others warned, “puts Americans’ personal information, like Social Security numbers and bank details, at risk.”Musk’s companies, which have faced over a dozen federal investigations, lawsuits, and regulatory violations from five cabinet departments and six independent federal agencies, have seen those battles evaporate since Trump returned to the White House. This week, Musk threatened to “delete entire agencies.”

“Musk’s rockets blow up, his self-driving cars run people over, his social media platform has lost 80% of its value since he first overpaid for it, and yet, the State Department is still ready to spend $400 million on a fleet of his flawed vehicles,” said DPG spokesman Dave Hoffman. “Georgians are alarmed that their jobs, personal data, and earned Social Security benefits are being threatened by a self-serving grifter like Elon Musk who wasn’t elected by anybody.”

The full extent of Musk’s self-dealing may never be fully understood. The recipient of nearly $20 billion in government contracts and taxpayer subsidies, Musk is currently acting as a “special government employee,” a designation that allows him to skirt public disclosure of his finances, including any conflicts of interest. 

While most federal employees are legally barred from performing government business that affects companies they or their family members own or have interest in, President Trump has, apparently, ceded to Elon Musk the sole power to determine if he has any conflicts of interest. Trump, once again running roughshod over any checks and balances, attracted rare bipartisan consternation after he fired 17 independent inspectors general shortly after taking office.

“If Elon Musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that DOGE is overseeing, Elon will excuse himself from those contracts,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.