It’s been a difficult week for Tesla. Not long after Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s very-public social media spat led Tesla shares to take their greatest single-day drop ever on Thursday—erasing $152 billion off its market cap—one of Tesla’s top engineers confirmed on social media late Friday afternoon that he was leaving the company.

Teslas stock took a sharp dive following the passage of Trumps ‘One Big Beautiful Bill by House Republicans. This sparked a heated exchange of threats and insults between Musk and Trump. As a result,