Motorists have been told to boycott Tesla by the Polish sports minister in response to CEO Elon Musk's comments at a far-right German political rally that Germans should move beyond their "past guilt" over Nazi atrocities.
Mr Tusk denounced the words as "all too familiar and ominous", and his tourism minister, Sławomir Nitras, has gone even further and called for Polish citizens - around 6 million of whom died in the Holocaust - to launch a boycott of Tesla vehicles in response.
Tesla owners are boycotting the popular electric vehicle over founder Elon Musk’s controversial salute at the inauguration of President Donald Trump, which was widely compared to the Roman salute used by the Nazis.
Tech mogul said Germans should not be ‘guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great grandparents’
“No normal Pole should buy a Tesla anymore. There needs to be a serious and tough response to this, including something like a consumer boycott,” Nitras (PO) told private TOK FM radio broadcaster on Monday.
The world’s richest person has heaped praise on the Alternative for Deutschland party in recent weeks ahead of the country’s upcoming election.
The German channcellor has doubled down on the countrys historical guilt and denounced the tech billionaires endorsement of a rival party
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has doubled down on the countrys historical guilt and denounced Elon Musks endorsement of a rival party German Ch
The Tesla billionaire has left Germany furious after suggesting they need to get over their past guilt about the Nazis.
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