Let's be fair - he probably would've fired a man in the same situation. When you're making panicked, emotionally driven decisions and someone or something gets in the way of what you want, the obvious response is to smash them as hard as possible.
From other news on the quality of Chinese EVs which will be banging on the door of the US and already making inroads elsewhere, he should be panicking. Those cars sound better than anything Tesla's been investing in, which would be completely on him.
All those cars need to charge somewhere, though. What a self-own.