N.J. Tesla dealership becomes a battleground. Dueling Musk rallies spill onto highway.

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N.J. Tesla dealership becomes a battleground. Dueling Musk rallies spill onto highway.

Updated: Mar. 29, 2025, 9:03 p.m. | Published: Mar. 29, 2025, 5:17 p.m.

By Richard Cowen | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Hundreds of people swarmed the Tesla auto dealership in Paramus on Saturday to show their love — and hate — for Elon Musk, President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency, the controversial initiative that’s gutting the federal government in search of waste and abuse.

A protest against Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO and head of DOGE, was scheduled to start at noon. But counter-demonstrators arrived first and unfurled red, white and blue pro-Trump banners in front of the dealership on busy Route 17.

For the next three hours, both sides had their say, waving flags, raising signs and chanting slogans. Many motorists responded with a honk of the horn — although it was impossible to tell which side they were on.

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Kevin Meany of Hackensack wrapped himself in an American flag that read, “God hates Trump and Jesus ain’t saving him.” Trump supporters got in his face all afternoon. … “You’ve got a right to protest, but you don’t have a right to disrespect the flag,” one Trump supporter snarled, his finger pointed in Meany’s face. “You are a nasty, un-American creature.”

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