SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. — In 2019, Dr. Kumait Jaroje placed an order for a futuristic vehicle that would not be available for years: the Tesla Cybertruck. Last April, he took delivery, the Tesla costing the cosmetic surgeon $103,000. Jaroje subsequently spent thousands more dollars to have the truck wrapped in metallic gold — to match, he said, the logo color of his Southborough practice, Sculpting, MD.
And he loves it.
“You get everything you want in a truck,” Jaroje said. “I’m a big fan of electric cars.”
What he’s not a fan of, lately, is the attention his Cybertruck is drawing — make that, the hate it’s drawing. Jaroje said ever since Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump last September, his Tesla has become some sort of a lightning rod for negative political comments — far different than the playful comments about the vehicle he used to get.
“People would laugh at the truck,” he said. “Somebody would give me a thumbs up, somebody gives me a thumbs down. It’s just a joke. Yeah, we like your truck, no we don’t like it — it’s ugly. Which is fine with me.”
Not so fine: what Jaroje played for Boston 25 News. It was a recording of a vulgar phone message he said came in on Wednesday. It implores the doctor to do the world a favor and kill himself. Last week, Jaroje said his wife found a sticker pasted to the back of the Cybertruck as it sat in the family’s driveway. It called Jaroje, in vulgar terms, a Nazi.
The brazenness of the vandalism scared him.
“Must be somebody came to my house and put a sticker on,” Jaroje said. “That means that someone is watching me. They’re watching where I park my truck. They’re watching my kids. They’re watching my family.”
Jaroje and his wife have three young boys.
Jaroje said the Nazi insult is likely a result of Elon Musk’s controversial salute to the crowd on inauguration day — a gesture which very much resembled something out of the Third Reich. (Musk denies it was a Nazi Salute.)
This week, Jaroje said he’s had patients cancelling appointments — because of their belief he supports Trump and Musk. Worse, some are trying to short-circuit future appointments by posting negative reviews. Jaroje said those reviews are coming from people he’s never met.
“I would never imagine driving a Cybertruck would get you that much hate,” he said. “Just because I am driving the Cybertruck you start putting in one-star reviews. This is a big deal. If you want to express yourself, come tell me how much you hate me. Come tell me how much you hate the truck. I’m a small business owner. I can’t afford losing millions like Elon Musk can.”
And for that reason — and the family’s safety — Jaroje is considering a move to Florida.
“Some might say, you’re a cosmetic doctor, you must be okay losing a few thousand bucks,” Jaroje said. “No. I can’t. We should consider having more love in the conversation. At the end of the day, we’re all human. We eat the same food. And we end up in the same place.”
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