Musk initially celebrated his White House car show on Tuesday, but his posts on X eventually took a darker turn. By Wednesday, he was promoting theories that protests and vandalism at Tesla dealerships were part of a Democrat-funded effort to undermine him.

Concerns over X’s presence were previously raised when he was spotted in the Oval Office while Trump signed an executive order on federal job cuts. His mother, musician Grimes, expressed surprise, writing on X, “He should not be in public like this… Thank you for alerting me.”