‘When I came out against Walmart carrying guns, not everybody was armed’
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Sheryl Crow claims that an armed man stormed onto her property after she posted a video of herself selling her Tesla to protest Elon Musk’s involvement with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
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Crow shared a clip to her Instagram in February in which she was seen waving goodbye to her Tesla. The singer-songwriter told her followers that she was ditching the vehicle to protest Musk’s appointment as head of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“My parents always said… you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla,” Crow, 63, captioned an Instagram video of herself smiling and waving as her Tesla was carted away as Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman’s Time to Say Goodbye played over top.
The multi-Grammy winner told her more than 684,000 followers that she was giving away the proceeds from the sale of her car.
“Money donated to @npr, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes that the truth will continue to find its way to those willing to know the truth,” she added.
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Crow closed her message by adding hashtags for #PresidentMusk as well as #PresidentTrump and #ProtectTheConstitution, and the main phone number for the U.S. Capitol.
The All I Wanna Do hitmaker later returned to social media to respond to critics who pointed out the video was recorded in the fall. Crow said she sold the car “right after” Trump’s re-election and added that she donated the money to NPR because the service is “something that I care about.”
In a new interview with Variety, Crow says the response from critics “feels different.”
“When I came out against Walmart carrying guns (in her 1996 song Love Is a Good Thing), not everybody was armed — and certainly I didn’t live in Tennessee, where everybody is armed,” she said. “So yeah, there was a moment where I actually really felt very afraid: A man got on my property, in my barn, who was armed. It doesn’t feel safe when you’re dealing with people who are so committed.”
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Still, Crow admitted she “can’t help” but think she would still post the same protest video if she had to do it all over again.
“I can’t help it,” she said. “I feel like I’m fighting for my kids. Also, that’s the way I was raised. There have been times when it hasn’t really been fun, but I follow my Atticus Finch dad; I’m very similar to him if I see something that seems unfair, you know?”
Crow has been a frequent critic of Trump. Back in 2017, during an appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, she called his first 144 days in office “nothing but chaos” and said, “It’s my hope that sooner than later he’s not in office anymore.”
“It actually has kept me up at night,” she said during Trump’s first term. “It’s infiltrated our daily lives in a way that is, for me, not healthy… I’m concerned about our democracy, what we count on as Americans. We don’t know what the truth is.”
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Crow also wondered why many Americans cast their vote for Trump the first time around.
“I feel sad for the people that voted for him, that are still hoping he’s going to deliver for them,” she explained. “There are a lot of people who are hurting in America just like all over the world and they believed in him, and it’s been my worry from the very beginning.”
Musk was one of Trump’s biggest supporters during last year’s hard-fought presidential campaigns, donating $288 million to Republican coffers.
The tech billionaire repeatedly warned Americans that voting for Trump was the only way for the country to preserve its democracy.
“Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election,” Musk posted on X. “Far from being a threat to democracy, he is the only way to save it!”
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