Tesla has spent much of the year dealing with struggling sales and a deteriorating brand. Now CEO Elon Musk has drawn the ire of the president.

Investors fear Trump might not be in such a rush to usher in a future of self-driving cars in the U.S., and that could slam Tesla. So much of its real business selling electric cars is struggling now and so it needs the promise of a new age of driverless cars to be realized— and fast.