Photograph of Donald Trump’s Notes Exhibits Tesla Costs

• President Donald Trump mentioned he plans to purchase a Tesla to help Elon Musk.
• Trump praised Tesla’s high quality and Musk’s dedication at a White Home occasion.
• A photographer captured a picture of a notice with Tesla costs.

A photograph from a White Home occasion Tuesday captured President Donald Trump with an inventory of costs for Teslas that have been parked on the south garden of the White Home.

Previous to the occasion, Trump wrote in a put up on Reality Social that he needed to purchase one of many firm’s electrical automobiles as a present of help for Elon Musk. At a media occasion Tuesday afternoon, Trump saddled as much as a pink Mannequin S.

“That is lovely,” he mentioned, later including that he would write a verify for the automobile. The Mannequin S retails for about $80,000.

Trump additionally mentioned he would present his 17-year-old granddaughter, Kai, a Cybertruck — one other Tesla car with a beginning worth of practically $80,000.

Connected to a replica of Trump’s speech was a handwritten notice that included costs for the vehicles, which learn like a gross sales pitch.

A photographer captured a picture of the notice, which learn partly, “Teslas may be bought as little as $299/month or $35K.”

The White Home didn’t reply to a request for remark from BI in regards to the checklist.

Trump has more and more stepped up his help for Tesla as a present of help to Musk, who’s carefully tied with the White Home’s new DOGE workplace, amid rising protests in opposition to the EV firm.

Protesters throughout the US and in Europe have demonstrated in opposition to Tesla, denouncing Musk’s politics, whereas others vandalized native Tesla showrooms.

The corporate’s inventory has additionally taken a beating in current months amid declining world gross sales and considerations that its chief is spending an excessive amount of time targeted on his White Home function fairly than his corporations.

Tesla inventory plunged 55% from report highs in mid-December. Firm shares closed Tuesday at $230.58.

Trump mentioned on the Tuesday White Home occasion that he will purchase a Tesla “as a result of, primary it is a fantastic product, pretty much as good because it will get, and quantity two,” he mentioned, pointing to Musk, “as a result of this man has devoted his vitality and his life to doing this and I feel he is been handled very unfairly by a really small group of individuals.”

The president mentioned he really will not be allowed to drive it and “hasn’t pushed a automobile in a really very long time,” however workers on the White Home will be capable to.

Trump has not all the time been a fan of electrical vehicles. In the summertime of 2024, whereas talking in Chicago on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists, he mentioned he was “in opposition to all people having an electrical automobile,” regardless of Musk’s endorsement.