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Tesla sales have slowed to a trickle in Australia, and owners of the electric vehicles are looking to unload them or at least make clear they're no fans of company owner Elon Musk.

New vehicle sales for February, in the weeks after Musk's apparent fascist salute at a Donald Trump inauguration rally, tumbled 72 percent compared to the same month last year, while sales of its popular Model 3 – the second-highest selling EV in Australia, collapsed by 81 percent, reported The Guardian.

Vice President J.D. Vance seemed to shock reporters by hinting that the U.S. could conduct "invasions of Mexico."

At a border press conference Wednesday, NewsNation correspondent Ali Bradley asked the vice president if U.S. forces had the "green light" to strike inside Mexico since some cartels had recently been designated foreign terrorist organizations.

Donald Trump's decision to cut off funding to conservation work could put some endangered species at risk from poachers, according to environmentalists.

The president froze international conservation grants dispensed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the Center for Biological Diversity threatened to sue if the funding wasn't restored to protect at-risk species, including elephants, rhinos, freshwater turtles and monarch butterflies, reported The Guardian.

French Senator Claude Malhuret this week delivered a blistering rebuke of President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk, and he compared their reign to that of an infamously debauched Roman emperor.

During a speech discussing European support for Ukraine against Russia, Malhuret lobbed insults directly at both the president and his billionaire benefactor.

A former ambassador to Canada blasted president Donald Trump's tariffs as a "mistake" and violation of a trade agreement he reached in his first term.

Bruce Heyman, who served as ambassador from 2014 to 2017 under former president Barack Obama, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that it was essential for the Trump administration to avoid a full-blown trade war with its northern neighbor, which responded to his 25-percent duty with a corresponding toll.

Economist Robert Kuttner believes that President Donald Trump will go down as the first president in American history to "deliberately engineer a severe depression."

Writing in The American Prospect, Kuttner runs down all the ways that Trump's policies are putting a severe damper on economic growth, starting with the massive tariffs he has slapped on all goods coming from Canada and Mexico.