New Delhi, March 29 -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk lashed out at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz criticising him for mocking Tesla's stock price decline. Musk labeled Walz "a huge jerk" after the Democrat publicly joked about Tesla's share performance earlier this month.

"I mean, you have Tim Walz, who's a huge jerk, you know, running around on stage with the Tesla stock price, where the stock price had gone in half, and he was overjoyed," Musk said. "What an evil thing to do. What a creep. What a jerk."

"Like, who derives joy from that?" he added.

During an event in Wisconsin earlier this month, Walz, who ran alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, mocked Tesla's stock drop, which was trading at $225 per share at the time-dow...