“I remember, for three years straight, it would just be headlines trashing Tesla. Over and over and over again. And our sales went up,” he says in the clip.
“So I’m like, okay, yeah. So I guess keep trashing us.”
That sentiment carried over to his earnings call with investors Tuesday evening, where he downplayed the results as not that bad.
“We are not on the ragged edge of death,” he said.
The CEO also claimed that first quarters have historically been slow for Tesla because would-be car buyers don’t want to go kick the tires “during a blizzard.”
Musk also used the call to announce that his work with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency is “mostly done” and predicted he’ll spend one to two days a week on government matters beginning in May.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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