It’s hard to recall because it seems like it happened long ago, but there was a time at the outset of the Second Trump Administration where Elon Musk was at the top of the Elitist Media Evening News each and every day. Elon’s long gone from the administration, but this odd brief onABC World News Tonight makes crystal clear that the Elon hate remains.
Watch the brief in its entirety, as aired on Wednesday, February 25th, 2026:
Take a look at this weirdly brand-specific @ABCWorldNews brief about a car-ramming incident in California, wherein David Muir makes sure to plug "Tesla" in there in a way you never see with other brands. @elonmusk is gone from the admin but the hate remains. pic.twitter.com/OhpiwXznYK
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 26, 2026
DAVID MUIR: There’s an urgent search tonight for a driver who drove into a crowd in Southern California. Authorities say there was a confrontation involving that Tesla driver who they say then returned, ramming into people in the street. Four people were hurt.
Of course, there is much more to the story than bla, bla, bla TESLA. Per Fox News:
Video captured the chaotic moment a car barreled into a crowd gathered outside a bar over the weekend in San Bernardino County, California, triggering a burst of gunfire and sending bystanders scrambling for safety.
The Redlands Police Department said Monday that four people were rushed to the hospital after the suspected attempted vehicular homicide unfolded early Sunday morning.
The incident reportedly stemmed from an altercation that escalated among several people outside a popular restaurant and bar, The Underground, shortly before 1:30 a.m.
Authorities said one of the individuals involved got into a 2022 Tesla and drove away before circling back minutes later, "striking four people who were standing in the street in front of the bar."
The report goes on to mention that the bar is located in a place where “people go to after they’ve been kicked out of other bars.”
The Fox item mentions the brand of the ramming vehicle as well, but not as a centerpiece of the report, which is what ABC did. In a three-sentence story, the placement of “Tesla” renders it its protagonist. By design.
This is contrary to standard practice with your typical ramming story, which seldom mentions the car’s make, if at all. When was the last time you heard the vehicle’s make feature prominently in a car ramming story? You don’t.
Those other brands don’t get mentioned at all. But things are still (D)ifferent when it comes to Tesla. The media continue to hate Elon Musk with the intensity of a thousand suns, and as though he never left the Trump administration at all.
