About 60 protesters gathered Saturday morning outside the Tesla Ann Arbor showroom on Jackson Road as part of a nationwide “No Trillionaires Day of Action.” Organized by Ann Arbor Indivisible, the protest opposed a recent pay package approved by Tesla shareholders that could make Tesla CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.
The pay package will reward Musk with shares worth $1 trillion if the company meets certain financial and development goals over the next decade, including increasing the company’s value in the stock market by nearly six times. Protesters carried signs with slogans including “The rich didn’t earn their money they stole it from the middle class” and “Make Tesla pay taxes” while chanting “Feed kids not kings, no trillionaires,” and “Money talks but so do we, time to end their tyranny.”
In the first months of President Donald Trump’s second term, Musk led the Department of Government Efficiency in an unelected role that has been criticized as unconstitutional. Musk left the White House in May after a public disagreement with Trump over the One Big Beautiful Bill…