# Cybertruck explodes outside Trump hotel in vegas, one dead \[2025-01-01\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news, trump\ **Created:** [January 1, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464 "2025-01-01T22:44:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/1 "2025-01-01T22:44:19Z")
1 Dead After a Cybertruck Explodes Outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas Gift link [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/us/car-fire-trump-hotel-las-vegas.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.l04.lEUo.kRRdcFok2lwE](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/us/car-fire-trump-hotel-las-vegas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l04.lEUo.kRRdcFok2lwE) Not a lot of info, yet. It looks like the driver is the only person who died. It may have been explosives in the truck, not the truck itself, that set it off. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/2 "2025-01-01T22:51:09Z")
And, as per the AP, the Cybertruck was rented through the Turo car-sharing app, which – perhaps not coincidentally – is being reported as having also been the case with the truck used in the New Orleans attack. > **[1 person dies when Tesla truck catches fire and explodes outside Trump's Las...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-hotel-vehicle-fire-las-vegas-ad4c171c7a6af64f08db93d9fdc2d749)** > > Authorities say one person died and seven others people were injured when a Tesla truck caught fire and exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/3 "2025-01-01T23:03:28Z")
CNN is reporting that they are looking into this as a terror attack. What a year. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/4 "2025-01-01T23:11:22Z")
I guess we could say it’s off to a bang-up start. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/5 "2025-01-01T23:47:02Z")
Video: [https://old.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/1hrbz0v/cybertruck\_explodes\_in\_las\_vegas\_nv\_january\_1\_2025/](https://old.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/1hrbz0v/cybertruck_explodes_in_las_vegas_nv_january_1_2025/) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/6 "2025-01-02T00:00:49Z")
I wonder if this person was trying to do an Oklahoma City v. 2.0. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/7 "2025-01-02T00:43:35Z")
Watching the local news here in Chicago, and they just showed a clip of a press conference with the Vegas police department. At the press conference, they showed a picture of the back of the truck (after the fire was put out), which the speaker from the Las Vegas police said was filled with “gasoline canisters, camp fuel canisters, and large firework mortars.” Sounding less and less like an accident. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/8 "2025-01-02T00:46:14Z")
Sounds like a pretty good New Year’s party to me. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/9 "2025-01-02T00:52:29Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I wonder if this person was trying to do an Oklahoma City v. 2.0. If so, it was an epic fail. The Oklahoma City bombing registered 3.0 on the Richter scale and destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a four block radius. This one didn’t even break the front windows of the hotel. Didn’t even _crack_ them. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > they showed a picture of the back of the truck (after the fire was put out), which the speaker from the Las Vegas police said was filled with “gasoline canisters, camp fuel canisters, and large firework mortars.” According to Wiki, Oklahoma City involved " 4,800 pounds (2,200 kg) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel mixture", which makes this one sound like a prank by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/10 "2025-01-02T00:59:57Z")
This is a perfect metaphor heading into 2025. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/11 "2025-01-02T01:07:07Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > the speaker from the Las Vegas police said was filled with “gasoline canisters, camp fuel canisters, and large firework mortars.” > > Sounding less and less like an accident. Or someone planning to drive out to the desert and setup a wilderness camp with an impromptu mini-burning man event with family and friends. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/12 "2025-01-02T01:23:53Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > At the press conference, they showed a picture of the back of the truck (after the fire was put out), which the speaker from the Las Vegas police said was filled with “gasoline canisters, camp fuel canisters, and large firework mortars.” Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/13 "2025-01-02T01:24:34Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > an impromptu mini-burning man event Which they succeeded in. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/14 "2025-01-02T01:30:44Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > This is a perfect metaphor heading into 2025. Yup: a literal dumpster fire. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/15 "2025-01-02T01:34:28Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > And, as per the AP, the Cybertruck was rented through the Turo car-sharing app, which – perhaps not coincidentally – is being reported as having also been the case with the truck used in the New Orleans attack. So a coordinated Turo-ist attack? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/16 "2025-01-02T01:35:36Z")
A cybertruck, fireworks and a trump hotel. Just a weird combination. Maybe a political statement explosion? Not enough information make sense of it all. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/17 "2025-01-02T01:46:12Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > A cybertruck, fireworks and a trump hotel. [Carnac the Magnificent] “Name three duds!” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/18 "2025-01-02T01:46:37Z")
Trump hotel + Cybertruck + bomb blast + dead person in car = deliberate suicide attack on the incoming administration, is what seems likely at this point. For whatever my opinion is worth. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/19 "2025-01-02T01:48:45Z")
(McMahon voice) You are correct, sir. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464/20 "2025-01-02T01:49:40Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@Ellecram](#): > > > > A cybertruck, fireworks and a trump hotel. > > [Carnac the Magnificent] “Name three duds!” I am old enough to hear that in Johnny Carson’s voice. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertruck-explodes-outside-trump-hotel-in-vegas-one-dead-2025-01-01/1012464.md?page=2)