Elon Musk Nukes Wall Street Journal for Publishing “Deliberately False” Hit Piece Claiming Tesla Board Is Secretly Hunting for His Replacement as CEO

Elon Musk lit up the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday after the outlet published what he called a “deliberately false” article alleging Tesla’s board of directors had secretly begun the search to replace him as CEO. The article, dripping with anonymous sources and speculation, alleged that board members, irritated by Musk’s leadership in the Trump administration’s bold cost-cutting DOGE initiative, contacted executive search firms to start a formal succession process.