*UPDATE* Cybertruck ‘Explosion’ at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas Being Investigated as Possible Act of Terrorism
Cybertruck explosion outside the hotel left the occupant of the vehicle dead and injured 7.
*UPDATE 3:41 pm Authorities are now investigating this incident as a possible act of terrorism.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said it was investigating a fire at the entrance to the tower. The public was told to avoid the area, though the police noted the fire had been put out.
The driver pulled into the valet area of the hotel and the vehicle exploded, according to an official. The driver is apparently dead and, so far, the only casualty from the incident. Seven bystanders had minor injuries, authorities said.
Investigators do not know what caused the blast, such as whether something was wrong with the vehicle or whether something external prompted it. Determining what was behind the explosion is the key focus of the probe.
An official briefed on the probe told ABC News that the Tesla Cybertruck had a load of fireworks-style mortars onboard. Investigators are urgently working to determine a motive and whether the driver intended to set off an explosion and why.
BREAKING: Authorities are investigating a Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump Las Vegas hotel in Nevada as a possible act of terror.
The driver pulled into the valet area of the hotel and the vehicle exploded, according to an official. https://t.co/8SdBYCVJ9I pic.twitter.com/uHsnEKWXbz
— ABC News (@ABC) January 1, 2025
*UPDATE 3:28 pm * One person was killed within the Cybertruck that exploded in front of Trump Hotel was found dead inside the vehicle, 7 others had minor injuries.
According to officials, a 2024 Tesla Cybertruck pulled up to the Trump Hotel glass entrance doors before exploding.
One person is confirmed dead and seven others were injured, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Sheriff Kevin McMahill.
Investigators have not said what caused the blast, whether it was something wrong with the vehicle, something external or some sort of explosive inside the vehicle.
Authorities also confirmed that anyone who was staying at the hotel has been moved to Resorts World.
Driver of the Cybertruck that exploded in front of Trump Hotel was found dead inside the vehicle, 7 others were injured. pic.twitter.com/52zvrMDuzn
— Rantingly (@rantinglydotcom) January 1, 2025
*UPDATE 2:30 pm* – Video appears to show the cybertruck involved in the fire exploded.
New footage shows Tesla Cybertruck exploding in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas pic.twitter.com/lD511ufnLe
— Rantingly (@rantinglydotcom) January 1, 2025
We will continue to follow developments on this incident.
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Early this morning, reports emerged of an incident at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Eyewitnesses reported black smoke billowing from the ground floor of the 64-story luxury hotel, and an evacuation occurred.
Fire teams rushed to the scene near the hotel and Fashion Show Mall, according to local NBC affiliate KSNV.
An ambulance and multiple cop cars were also seen racing to the scene.
Footage shared on X showed people standing in a parking lot near the hotel after being evacuated.
I have footage of smoke/fire and evacuation at @realDonaldTrump Trump International Hotel Las Vegas pic.twitter.com/wVfyafg9bO
— Chris Saad (@ChrisSaad) January 1, 2025
Reports indicate that it was a vehicle fire.
A vehicle fire was first reported around 8:41 a.m. in the 2000 block of Fashion Show Drive, near the Fashion Show Mall and Trump International Hotel, per the website PulsePoint.
People posting to social media said they heard a loud noise and could see smoke coming from the area.
Another person shared video to X showing what appears to be a Cybertruck engulfed in flames directly outside the lobby of the Trump Hotel.
A cyber truck "blew up" in front of Trump Hotel in Vegas
from @kaaaassuu
"Those are our luggage by the door and that’s where we were when it happened." pic.twitter.com/praC8VoyN9
— Rantingly (@rantinglydotcom) January 1, 2025
Eyewitness accounts indicate an ‘explosion’ was associated with the fire.
A man named Stephen Felando, who is staying at the hotel, claimed a ‘massive explosion’ happened.
‘Something major just exploded here,’ he said in an X video. ‘Something just went off in the valet section…I don’t know what just did, but something just blew.’
Felando said the windows ‘shimmed’ and shook.
Explosion at Trump International Las Vegas in the valet/check in area.
No flames now, but what happened?? pic.twitter.com/020xIziMJ5— stephen felando (@felandostephen1) January 1, 2025
The investigation into the incident is ongoing.
Emergency crews quickly arrived on the scene, and authorities are working to assess the cause of the fire. No injuries have been reported at this time, and the situation is still developing.
This fire marks another unsettling incident on the Strip, though authorities have not indicated whether it was accidental or intentional.
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We live there, at least when we are in Las Vegas. It’s now my official residence. In any case, was taking the dog out for a walk, and the fire doors to the elevator bay were closed. Opened them, and was shoed back into the elevator bay by security. Just flashing lights, and everything else was normal. A half an hour later, and there was smoke in the lobby. Tried to go back down maybe 20 minutes ago, and the elevators are locked down.
Apparently, it was a Tesla Cynertruck that blew up, right where you drop off cars for valet. See if this works:
https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1874509107006492925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1874509107006492925%7Ctwgr%5Ee3cc2037074eac8139855ffba5813f73393a2f7d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fus-news%2Fbreaking-trump-tower-explosion-horror-34403879
They started evacuating the building an hour or two ago. Haven’t done it yet, since I have no car (it’s in valet, likely one floor up from the lobby) and a cat and dog. And no way to get Uber in there (street is closed).
Thank you for posting Bruce. We appreciate it.
I hear the FBI really debated if they should pull their agents out of the Catholic churches and PTA meetings to investigate this one, because we all know the REAL terrorists are traditional Catholics and inquisitive parents.
Well, that’s the way to get the new year started off with a bang!
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I just hope it’s not an omen on how the rest of the news this year is going to be, as this was the first post I prepared in 2025.
And ALL of this will be on the Democrats heads!
Think about both domestic and international riff raft we have.
ABC News reporting it’s being investigated as possible act of terrorism.
https://x.com/ABC/status/1874550709636788467
The driver of the vehicle is apparently deceased and at least 7-others were injured. That 2nd video above definitely looks like an explosion, not fire/deflagration.
This was not a battery exploding.
The battery never caught fire.
Which is actually good, because the sprinklers went off. The ceiling above the drive through entry, has obvious water damage (probably due to the recycled water they use for fire extinguishing sprinklers in Las Vegas). Turned out that it was probably a good thing though, because the explosion was bad enough that the sprinklers were probably a good thing.
A Musk vehicle at a Trump hotel?
Total coincidence. Ask 51 retired intelligence officials.
But there’s an innovation we didn’t notice arriving: through the wonders of advanced lithiu battery technology, terrorists don’t have to expend nearly as much DIY effort to assemble and disguise their car bombs.
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
-Goldfinger
‘To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
If you are talking about batteries , that would be far more difficult than than using an internal combustion vehicle. High electrocution risk.
They do have 12 volt batteries as well.
And, for ramming events, electric cars are twice the weight, at least, of normal cars so they are far more deadly … and they run silent.
Add self-driving capabilities that are hackable and …
High likelihood of terrorism. Musk had the presence of mind to immediately pull the telemetry for the truck, and it was completely normal up until the blast. Then point out that damage to the hotel was minimized by the design of the truck. All in the first news cycle.
After New Orleans, you have to wonder
A Musk built truck explodes outside of a Trump building? Way too much symbolism there to not wonder.
maybe… or maybe it is just that electric car fires are VERY hard to put out compared to a CE vehicle.
There was a lot of talk about how the Democrats plan to deny Trump his victory.
I suspect they are letting these terror attacks happen as a way to prevent it and to seize power under a state of emergency.
Makes you wonder what the drones are looking for……
There is this weird obsession with the word “terrorism”. The explosion of this Tesla cybertruck in front of the Trump Tower is an ACT OF WAR against America. Those involved in this are waging war on our nation and deserve to be treated as such. Most of our institutions treat “terrorists” as nothing more than some sort of really bad criminal – as we see with the thoroughly offensive kid glove treatment of the 9-11 planners by Traitor Joe and his junta.
It is long past time to really acknowledge that the left is at war with America. Real, serious WAR.
New Orleans.
Las Vegas.
2025… È l’era del terzo mondo.
Is there any reason that this couldn’t just be a defective lithium ion battery issue?
The obvious fireworks in the explosion …
Unless your claim is that a lithium battery fire caused the fireworks in the truck to explode. The odds of that happening, to a Tesla truck in front of a Trump building are pretty long, though … at least 3 to 1.
The video from inside the hotel lobby sounds like last night in a Florida neighborhood.
The truck catches fire and explodes exactly at the moment it is parked outside the doors. Could happen, I guess. Stranger things and all that. We will know more when the guy is identified unless he is one of the millions of got aways that crossed the southern border.
Probably not. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a Lithium Ion fire. But, they usually smolder, then catch fire and then explode…if they explode. A lot of times, they’ll just burn aggressively. But, in either case, they will definitely smolder for some period of time before they really begin to burn in earnest. That burning produces a great deal of smoke…very toxic smoke. There is zero indication of any fire burning before that explosive event.
The fuel oil and fireworks in the bed of the truck pretty much ended that line of speculation.
How do you think university’s respond to all their pro- Palestinian, pro Islam anti Israel protests moving forward?
You expect them to learn from this?
“You can’t learn in here — this is a UNIVERSITY!” — Professor Strangelove, Ph.D
Like the Ford Lightening used in the NO attack, this Cybertruck was apparently rented as well. Helluva coincidence.
There have to be tons of traceable clues in these rentals, no matter how the attackers tried to disguise things. Normally, one would steal a vehicle in order to stay anonymous … but it seemed to me that it was probably much harder to steal the Tesla than a regular car. Renting, though … there’s got to be info out the wazoo about these. With the Tesla, being totally within Tesla’s control at seemingly all times, I’m pretty sure Elon has all the information about every single place that truck has been and he might even have video and audio from it.
yup both using turo app
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hotel-vehicle-fire-las-vegas-ad4c171c7a6af64f08db93d9fdc2d749
According to a law enforcement official, the truck was rented via the Turo app and appeared to have a load of fireworks. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Wow. Granted, I’m not sure if there are any other Apps out there like Turo. But still, it’s another very weird coincidence.
The vehicle used for the World Trade Center bombing was also rented.
And the cell was taken down because the moron who rented it went back and argued to get his deposit back, even though he had blown the truck up.
This does remind me of a parody Volkswagen commercial in which a terrorist bomb explodes inside the car and is completely contained.
Indeed. My son remarked a couple hours ago, what kind of idiot creates a car bomb out of a bulletproof car?
The claim, now, is that the Las Vegas truck bomber was a former Green Beret …
Meanwhile, there has just been a mass shooting at a Queens nightclub, it seems, though I can’t seem to find much about it anywhere.
You don’t need to be SF to set off a truck full of fireworks you can buy on the side of the road.
I would think that an experienced soldier – especially special forces – would have come up with a much better plan …
Yeah, it’s a bit odd. While it’s true that beginning in the very late 1980s, military training programs, even advanced programs like Green Beret’s complete, scaled back the training in turning readily available household/industrial materials into powerful improvised explosives, there’s still some of that training offered. Using fireworks and high-test gas cans (which actually have a LOWER deflagration potential than low-octane gas) to blow up a car is an amateur hour move.
A dead one? Someone already dead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtE3QlTpKI
Tony Kovaleski, of ABC Denver, is claiming that his sources tell him that both the New Orleans and Las Vegas terrorists had served at the same military base (he doesn’t say which one or in what country).
As Musk pointed out on X, that clown picked the wrong vehicle to explode if he wanted to cause damage. The truck directed the force upwards and despite being just feet from the building, the glass doors had no damage.
It looks like someone finally found something the cybertruck is actually good at
Actually, the Cybertruck turned out to be a very, very poor car bomb. The only parts of the truck that failed were some of the windows. None of the body-panels were comprised and even the tires didn’t flatten or catch on fire.
Cue the unhinged “mUsK pUbLiCiTy sTuNt!!!11!!!!” conspiracy theories.
Cybertruck bomber: Army veteran Matthew Livelsberger.
No connection to the New Orleans attack, except you, know this:
“Law enforcement sources revealed that Livelsberger, who died Wednesday in the explosion outside the hotel, had previously served at the same military base as New Orleans terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar. Police have not confirmed if the pair were known to each other.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14243295/Pictured-Las-Vegas-bomber-blew-Cybertruck.html
With respect to the alleged bomber, it’s incredibly odd to leave active-duty at 19-years of service, which is what his LinkedIn account indicates (he claims 19-years, 1-month which seems to fit given his age). Unless he EASd under some kind of medical condition, he wouldn’t be eligible for retirement. Service members who are short to retirement don’t quit. Everything else in his CV indicates an exceptional, high-performing service member. He was promoted regularly and even selected for an active-duty degree completion program that he used to obtain a Bachelor of Science cum laude. By all indications, he was a valued, hard-charger right until he wasn’t….just before he would have retired. As I said, very odd.
Of course, guys with his kind of CV are HEAVILY recruited by CIA’s Operations Directorate. That would explain a lot.
Ok, now it’s taken an even weirder turn…
https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1874852673872408900
NEW: A US Army spokesperson confirms to @FoxNews
that the suspect in the Las Vegas truck explosion, Matthew Livelsberger, was an active duty Special Forces Operations sergeant who was on leave from Germany where he was serving w/ the 10th Special Forces Group.
This information contradicts earlier reporting that indicated he had left active-duty several months ago.
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