Cybertruck Explosion at Trump Las Vegas Hotel

Thursday, January 02, 2025

Police are investigating the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Police said a cybertruck pulled up in front of the hotel near a glass entrance, then smoke started coming from the vehicle and it exploded. The driver was killed and seven people were injured in the explosion, police said without naming any suspects.

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WATCH: The moment a Tesla Cybertruck exploded this morning in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas

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-- MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) January 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM

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Haha.

Suck it Fat Boy, this is your life from now on.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-01 05:49 PM | Reply

2025 CyberPintos are going to come with complimentary fire extinguishers.

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-01 06:07 PM | Reply

Musk needs to be deported.

Hertz would help, after all the now worthless stock he stuck them with.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-01 06:20 PM | Reply

Another rented truck. Weird.

#4 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-01-01 07:11 PM | Reply

Both trucks rented on the same app, I hear.

"Cybertruck that exploded and truck in New Orleans attack rented on same app"

abcnews.go.com

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-01 07:44 PM | Reply

No way of knowing if there's a connection since they haven't named the driver yet.

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-01 07:46 PM | Reply

Musk needs to be deported.

Its wasn't a battery explosion idiot.

You don't get the link between the Truck and Trump tower? FFS delete your account.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-01 08:47 PM | Reply

No way of knowing if there's a connection since they haven't named the driver yet.

Yeah both were Electric Trucks rented from the same DIY rental "company", both used in a terrorist attack, just a coincidence...

You too, delete your account.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-01 08:49 PM | Reply

Staying at a Trump hotel and driving one of Elmo's box on wheels sounds dangerous. Has Luigi been blamed yet for this by Fox News or OAN?

#9 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-01-02 08:58 AM | Reply

Matthew Livelsberger, an Army vet, in another rented vehicle, weird.

#10 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-01-02 11:10 AM | Reply

Green Beret as well. Tim McVeigh wannabe.
That makes two military vets.

In a militarized society, the first ones to go berserk are the front liners.
My father was a front liner. All the potential killing or terroristic acts he ever did (although he never admitted to any) was done OVER THERE.

"I am in a world of ----"

#11 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2025-01-02 12:28 PM | Reply

Another great job by the Biden/Harris intelligence agencies. If they stayed out of Melania's panty drawer and focused on actual crime we would be a lot safer.

#12 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-02 12:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Why are all of these right wing ---------- committing acts of terror?

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-02 12:56 PM | Reply

A Tesla cyber truck exploding in flames in front of Trump towers.

A Trumpy Classic.

Sign of the times.

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-02 01:04 PM | Reply

No way of knowing if there's a connection since they haven't named the driver yet.
#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-01 07:46 PM

Maybe it was a healthcare CEO? I hear they're dropping like flies.

#15 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-01-02 03:29 PM | Reply

Wait, he was a MAGAt?

Hahaha!

#16 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-01-02 04:22 PM | Reply

Yet another terrorist attack not perpetrated by a leftist

#17 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-02 04:41 PM | Reply

Special Forces?

Given his understanding of energy and explosive force, I'm thinking he's more Special Ed.

#18 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-01-02 07:00 PM | Reply

There's also this ...

Car-sharing app Turo defends security standards after New Year's attacks
www.latimes.com

... Both the vehicles used in two New Year's Day attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas were rented through Turo, a car-sharing app.

The attacks thrust the San Francisco company that created the app, which relies on a model similar to Airbnb to enable users to rent cars directly from their owners, into the spotlight and raised questions about the ability of such peer-to-peer services to adequately vet users for possible safety issues.

In a statement, the company defended itself, saying it's committed to the "highest standards in risk management." ...

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-02 07:56 PM | Reply

@#19 ... which relies on a model similar to Airbnb to enable users to rent cars directly from their owners ...

OK, I have to ask ...

Why would a sane person rent out their personal car to a total stranger?

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-02 08:02 PM | Reply

Why would a sane person rent out their personal car to a total stranger?

Cuz they have a ------ car?

#21 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-02 08:08 PM | Reply

Why would a sane person rent out their personal car to a total stranger?

#20 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Money. People do the strangest things for money.

They even rent out their homes to total strangers!!

Why would a sane person rent out their personal car or homes?

Money. Money .. money .. money.

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-02 08:16 PM | Reply

imo, I would say that Turo has just earned itself a warranted and, unlikely desired, slot on the FBI watch list.

#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-02 08:23 PM | Reply

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#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-01 08:47 PM
You don't get the link between the Truck and Trump tower? FFS delete your account.

I think we all get that: Musk + Trump = BFFs (for now ?)... Was that the right answer? Is there a prize? Or just too easy?

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-01 08:49 PM
Yeah both were Electric Trucks rented from the same DIY rental "company", both used in a terrorist attack, just a coincidence...

Except that in Vegas it was not an "attack" or act of "terrorism" - it was really a suicide / self-immolation using Musk's Tesla Truck with low-charge explosives and space in front of LV Trump Hotel, not trying to ram the entrance or intended to harm anyone else, with whatever weird political/personal message that entails TBD... so yeah, most likely only a few similarities / coincidences.

There are quite a few studies of people often being more confident in their beliefs/knowledge having partial / "incomplete information" about a subject than those who have "complete information" (where that is possible) - "Illusion of Information Adequacy" is very useful in game and probability theories, among others.

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#24 | Posted by CutiePie at 2025-01-03 04:32 AM | Reply

Army Green Beret behind Las Vegas Cybertruck attack wrote New Year's Eve letter signaling mental health crisis

www.cbsnews.com

#25 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-03 09:20 PM | Reply

Both the Las Vegas and New Orleans vets had worked at Fort Bragg (now called Fort Liberty), the expansive North Carolina military base which has become notorious for mysterious homicides, an epidemic of drug overdoses and rampant child sex abuse (Also: one such example.
Both had also participated in the US occupation of Afghanistan.

Don't let ANYONE tell you there isn't a correlation.

#26 | Posted by Nerfherder at 2025-01-03 09:44 PM | Reply

More on the above from Stars and Stripes.

Maybe certain right-wing military vets living in that beautiful and wholesome state of North Carolina (sic) will care to comment ...

#27 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2025-01-03 09:52 PM | Reply

Don't let ANYONE tell you there isn't a correlation.

The question is more like was there coordination, which seems unlikely.

#28 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-04 12:07 AM | Reply