Protests against Donald Trump and Elon Musk: Terror within?

Protesters at Tesla dealership in Columbus, Ohio
(Becker1999 via Wikipedia)

There have been numerous protests against Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Here are a couple of reports:

March 17, 2025

Valerie … Costa, 43, is a community organizer in Seattle who co-founded an environmental activist group called the Troublemakers. Recently, she has helped organize peaceful local protests as part of Tesla Takedown, demonstrations happening worldwide objecting to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s campaign of slashing and disrupting the federal government. …

In the face of growing protests against Tesla, Trump held an event with Musk on the White House lawn last week and vowed to label vandalism and attacks against the carmaker as domestic terrorism.

“I’ll do it. I’m going to stop them. If we catch anybody doing it, because they’re harming a great American company,” Trump said, standing in front of a row of Teslas.

There have been a spate of arrests linked to violence against Tesla facilities. …

The Tesla Takedown protests are aimed at hurting the value of Tesla, the primary source of Musk’s wealth, by encouraging people to boycott the company, Costa said. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328626/elon-musk-protests-tesla-takedown

March 17, 2025

It was a blustery, grey Saturday afternoon on March 15 as about 40 people wearing togas, carrying signs and waving upside-down American flags gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Madison to protest Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the current administration …

Buoyed by all the honks of encouragement and thumbs-up from passing pedestrians, the Madison protesters wound up back on the corner of State Street where they bopped to tunes on a boom box. https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/03/17/big-worries-small-protest-as-trump-and-musk-threaten-livelihoods-and-health-in-wisconsin/

Michael Snyder believes that the mainstream media has tended to overlook or downplay violence from anti-Trump/Musk protesters:

Why Is The Media So Quiet About The Anti-Trump Violence That Is Erupting All Over The Nation?

March 16, 2025

If the left is this angry now, what do you think they will be like once President Trump and Elon Musk have had six more months to make major changes? They are calling it “the anti-Trump resistance”, and all over the nation this movement is becoming increasingly violent. If Trump supporters were using explosives, shooting up dealerships, setting vehicles on fire, stockpiling guns and throwing Molotov cocktails, the mainstream media would be going absolutely nuts. But since it is radical leftists that are doing it, the mainstream media is treating the violence as if it is no big deal.

I asked Google AI to give me a definition of “terrorism”, and I was told that it is “generally understood as the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to instill fear and coerce or intimidate governments or societies in pursuit of political, religious, or ideological goals”.

That is precisely what these anti-Trump leftists are doing.

They are literally using violence to advance their political goals…

Graffiti on a Tesla dealership sign. Molotov cocktails thrown in another dealership’s lot. Tesla charging stations set on fire. Across the country, the electric vehicle company’s facilities and vehicles are being hit with protests and violence over Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration.

A wave of anti-Tesla protests and attacks have occurred as Musk, Tesla’s CEO, takes a leading role in President Trump’s cost-cutting task force, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. The agency has cut thousands of jobs since its inception in January.

These are not “protests”.

What we are witnessing is terrorism on American soil.

In Oregon, one Tesla dealership has already been shot at twice this month…

On Thursday, an arsonist in Seattle poured gasoline on a Tesla Model S sedan and set it on fire…

In Colorado, authorities have arrested a 42-year-old leftist after explosives were discovered at a Tesla dealership…

All over the country, pro-Trump influencers are being “swatted”…

Multiple conservative content creators, including InfoWars host Chase Geiser, Nick Sotor, Gunther Eagleman, ‘Catturd,’ and Trump impersonator Shawn Farash, have been targeted in swatting incidents, which typically entail fake or prank phone calls to emergency services that trigger an armed response from police officers to a particular address.

If the same thing was being done to prominent voices on the left, this would be front page news. …

The level of hatred that I am seeing out there right now is absolutely chilling. Here is just one example…

Left-wing YouTuber “Vaush” has issued a borderline call to take up arms against the Trump regime and its supporters, labelling MAGA voters “a plague to this country” and saying that life in prison for members of the Trump admin would be “generous.”

In a recent video, Vaush—real name Ian Anthony Kochinski—calls for a wave of militancy leading to a “de-MAGA-fication” of the US like Reconstruction after the Civil War or de-Nazification in post-War Germany.

The video also features a series of chilling threats that suggest a genuine desire to see physical harm inflicted against members of the Trump administration and ordinary Trump supporters.

Those that are advocating political violence should be extremely ashamed of themselves.

What they are pushing is deeply un-American.

Unfortunately, a lot more civil unrest is inevitably coming. https://endoftheamericandream.com/why-is-the-media-so-quiet-about-the-anti-trump-violence-that-is-erupting-all-over-the-nation/

As far as the mainstream media goes, it tends to emphasize that the protests are peaceful or “mostly peaceful.” With “mostly peaceful” meaning that there was violence and/or destruction but that most protesters were not involved.

As far as not covering violence goes, the mainstream media has long downplayed or ignored violence against anti-abortion activists or facilities, as well as much of the violence from Antifa or BLM.

That said, As far as protests against Donald Trump, notice something from my latest book available at Amazon Kindle: Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency: Is Donald Trump Fulfilling Biblical, Islamic, Greco-Roman Catholic, Buddhist, and other America-Related Prophecies? as well as Amazon print Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency: Is Donald Trump Fulfilling Biblical, Islamic, Greco-Roman Catholic, Buddhist, and other America-Related Prophecies?:

Expect more protests against Donald Trump. (p. 15)

There are issues with what Donald Trump says when he speaks. I expect protests. (p. 44)

Donald Trump has been a polarizing figure and has offended many including minorities, migrants, and Muslims. Expect civil unrest and rioting. The Bible prophesies “There shall be terror within” (Deuteronomy 32:25). (p. 89)

(Thiel B. Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency: Is Donald Trump Fulfilling Biblical, Islamic, Greco-Roman Catholic, Buddhist, and other America-Related Prophecies? Nazarene Books, 2025)

And we have already seen gold hit a record price at least four times (01/31/25, 02/10/25, 03/13,25, and 03/14/25) since that book came out less than two months ago.

Notice, also, excerpts from my article 25 items to prophetically watch in 2025:

Jesus taught:

25 Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. (Matthew 12:25) …

22. Reelection of Donald Trump and His Adminstration

In the Bible News Prophecy magazine, October-December 2024 edition, number 22 was listed as “The Incoming US Presidential Administration”

So, it was renamed.

The reelection of Donald Trump has sent shockwaves throughout the world as well as through the legacy media of the United States.

It has brought both hope to some and worry to others.

Donald Trump will be apocalyptic. At least 20 warnings/predictions I made before his last Administration assumed office came to pass (for details see Donald Trump in Prophecy).

Look for Donald Trump and His Administration to offend the Europeans, cause international trade concerns, push many nations further away from the United States, change matters in Ukraine, affect matters in the Middle East, impact US energy production, impact immigration, impact the move away from the US dollar, and further divide many in the United States.

That said, the Bible warns that more terrorism will hit a corrupt people:

5 They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation. … 25 The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within (Deuteronomy 32:5,25)

12 “Cry and wail, son of man; For it will be against My people, Against all the princes of Israel. Terrors including the sword will be against My people; Therefore strike your thigh. (Ezekiel 21:12)

25 Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke, 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes, 27 When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. (Proverbs 1:25-27)

5 Also they are afraid of height, And of terrors in the way (Ecclesiastes 12:5).

6 You have forsaken Me,” says the Lord,
“You have gone backward.
Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
I am weary of relenting!
7 And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land;
I will bereave them of children;
I will destroy My people,
Since they do not return from their ways.
8 Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them,
Against the mother of the young men,
A plunderer at noonday;
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly. (Jeremiah 15:6-8)

Consider the following as applicable to the terrorists themselves:

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality…30…violent, proud, boasters,…31…unmerciful; (Romans 1:28-31)

8 … And the violence of the land and the city,
And of all who dwell in it.

9 “Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house,
That he may set his nest on high, (Habakkuk 2:8-9)

We continue to see violence and other terroristic acts.

We are in a violent generation:

11 There is a generation that curses its father,
And does not bless its mother.
12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
13 There is a generation — oh, how lofty are their eyes!
And their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords,
And whose fangs are like knives, (Proverbs 30:11-14)

The USA needs national repentance and the return of Jesus and the Kingdom of God.

For additional information, check out the following articles:

Why Terrorism? Is Terrorism Prophesied? What does the Bible teach? Which nations may be affected? Here is a link to a related sermon: Terrorism, Christianity, and Islam. Here is a shorter video: Afghanis: Potential terrorists?
Crime can be stopped…here’s how! This was a booklet that was edited with some updates by Dr. Thiel. Here is a link to a related sermon: Crime and How it Will be Stopped!
25 items to prophetically watch in 2025 Much is happening. Dr. Thiel points to 25 items to watch (cf. Mark 13:37) in this article. Here is a link to a related sermon video: 25 Items to Watch in 2025.
The Gospel of the Kingdom of God This free online pdf booklet has answers many questions people have about the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and explains why it is the solution to the issues the world is facing. It is available in over 1,500 languages at ccog.org. Here are links to four kingdom-related sermons: The Fantastic Gospel of the Kingdom of God!, The World’s False Gospel, The Gospel of the Kingdom: From the New and Old Testaments, and The Kingdom of God is the Solution.
Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency: Is Donald Trump Fulfilling Biblical, Islamic, Greco-Roman Catholic, Buddhist, and other America-Related Prophecies? Is Donald Trump going to save the USA or are there going to be many disastrous unintended consequences of his statements and policies? What will happen. The link takes you to a book available at Amazon.com.
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