Scott Galloway, a New York University professor and host of the “Pivot” podcast, told a live audience that he did something atrociously disgusting in his Tesla vehicle before selling it as a personal payback against tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk who he said targeted him on the internet. Galloway said that he defecated in his Tesla just before selling it off.
“As a true story. I had a Tesla. Great car. He started sh—posting me on Twitter, so I sold it,” Galloway said during a conversation with co-host Kara Swisher. The confession was made as part of a live taping at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. “Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story. Not good for resale value.”
The story was told during a discussion about the results of the midterm elections from November 3, 2026, Musk’s political power and reach, and reports that Tesla is going to wind down the production of Cybertruck vehicles in Texas in mid-2027. Swisher and Galloway spent a significant amount of time whining about how much political pull Musk still has, despite big Democrat victories in the midterms.
According to Fox News, Galloway went on to tell Swisher, “We have become out of control in terms of one man — a private citizen’s ability to control the government and make decisions that only elected officials should be allowed to make.” The professor went on to state his belief that no individual, especially one like Musk who is unelected, should have the influence and power.
“No individual should have — and he is not elected. He is unaccountable, and he should work on his — not the cybertruck obviously, because that was a sh—- product,” Swisher went on to say. “But he should work on those kind of things and not have this — it would be a really good thing for him and for the rest of us for him to go away for a while, get off Twitter and stop talking.”
On the day of the midterm elections, Galloway revealed an alternate history scenario during the “Prof G Podcast,” that was based on a comparison between the actions Musk has taken and a hypothetical situation in World War II involving aviator Charles Lindbergh. Galloway made references to reports that SpaceX was restricting Starlink satellite internet speeds in Ukraine a month ago.
These same reports said that SpaceX also disrupted Ukrainian military operations during the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Galloway said that Musk should ultimately suffer the same fate as traitors who collaborated with a foreign enemy. “My question is, or my thesis is, we took the Rosenbergs and put them up against a wall and executed them for being traitors. And I realize this is an incendiary statement, but I’ll make it, and I believe it. I think Elon Musk is a traitor to the West,” he said.
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In other words, like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, Musk should be put to death. The tech guru later explained the Starlink situation saying that Ukraine was using it in violation of the service’s restrictions, going on to say, “Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.”