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Elon Musk has denounced the allegations of the “puppetmaster” behind this weekend’s anti-Trump demonstrations after the viral video showed that protesters struggle to explain why they believe President Donald Trump is a “fascist.”
“The problem is, not puppeteers, but puppeteers, the latter because you don’t know why they’re there,” Musk posted on X on Sunday.
“He’s just doing everything he wants… he’s a convicted felon, you know, that’s everything I know,” one protester in the video said, “The Fascist Trump administration has to go.” The footage was recorded Saturday in Washington, DC, by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and political strategist Ted Goodman who launched the livestream program.
“It’s about him trying to control the media,” another protester on the video responded when asked for evidence that Trump was said to be a “fascist.”
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Anti-Trump protesters across Washington, DC, demonstrations. (Ted Goodman)
“All presidents try to control the story?” Goodman pressed.
“They try to control their own stories. But one thing Trump did, for example, is to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico and not allow the Associated Press to come to the White House,” the protesters continued.
The first protester explained in the video that he was there saying he “sees people wandering around,” but the second protester explained that he was there for an “executive overreach.”
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The demonstrator dresses to the fictional character Waldo while protesting at the National Mall in Washington, DC on April 5, 2025.
The first protesters added that he was given a sign that he described Trump as a “fascist” and a printed one-seater that declared, “We are facing fascism… It’s time to act!” Alongside a photoshopped image of a playing card with a Hitler style mustache.
The protestor’s video had received more than 12 million views on X by Sunday afternoon.
One-seat paper at an anti-Trump rally in Washington, DC (Ted Goodman)
More than 1,200 protests were detained nationwide on Saturday as critics gathered to protest the administration, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), mutual tariffs, federal layoffs and immigration reform.
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“[I’m] One protester told Fox News Digital on Saturday from a demonstration in New York.
People gather to protest the Trump administration at the National Mall in Washington, DC on April 5, 2025 (via Getty Images via Bryan Dozier/Middle East/AFP)
“I am protesting what is happening in this blessed country, a democracy that has now been transitioning to a dictatorship. We are now in a nearly fascist state, because the rule of law is now succumbing.
This weekend’s protest follows a massive protest targeting Tesla last weekend. Elon Musk, a solid Trump alliance who supports Doge’s lead and is Tesla’s CEO and has seen anti-Trump critics physically attack, financially attack boycotts and protest politics against car companies.
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“Who’s funding and organising all these paid protests?” Musk posted last weekend on X, a recent anti-Tesla protest.
Elon Musk’s Tesla showroom location faces repeated protests against his role in the Doge. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
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Amidst the protest, local news outlets, media personalities and conservative critics speculated that anti-Tesla protests were caught up in “astroturfing.”
Kaylee Holland and Madeline Coggins of Fox News Digitals contributed to this report.
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