A brand new poll has revealed that Tesla CEO and owner of X, Elon Musk, is now the most hated public figure among a list that features some of the most prominent personalities in the United States and abroad. Talk about a fall from grace. His turning on President Donald Trump was like a needle popping a balloon. He went from being a highly respected figure trying to help the American people to someone the masses would rather spit on as look at.
Gallup conducted a survey of Americans in July, asking for their opinions on 14 well known, powerful figures, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, President Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and JD Vance. But top of the pile was Musk.
A total of 61 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of Musk, with only 33 percent saying they saw him in a positive light. Six percent said they didn’t have an opinion of the tech guru at all.
Shockingly, Musk’s popularity has tumbled below that of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was at 52 percent unfavorable with a net score of -23.
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The billionaire became a familiar figure in Trump’s inner circle, spending nearly $300 million to support his campaign last year and maintaining a distinguished role once Trump returned to the White House for a second term. Musk was then appointed to lead the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with downsizing the federal workforce and cutting government spending.
However, their once-cozy relationship quickly unraveled, with Musk officially falling out of favor at the White House earlier this summer and becoming embroiled in a very public, online fallout with the president. Following his fall from grace, the Tesla CEO reportedly lost over $34 billion of his personal net worth – all while his reputation took an even steeper dive.
His rapid descent was clear in Gallup’s recent poll, which showed Musk’s favorability rating plunging from -4 in January to -28 now – a decline even steeper than Tesla’s sales drop. But his public image began to suffer once he joined the Trump administration, dove into controversial MAGA politics and alienated Democrats – resulting in an extremely low net favorability rating of -86.
The alienation began when Musk started ripping into the president, which didn’t sit well with members of the MAGA movement at all. Never a wise move, seeing as how those who support President Trump are ferociously loyal.
It really took a turn for the worst when Musk started to claim that Trump was in the Epstein files. That pretty much destroyed his relationship with the president and turned the American people against him, all in mere moments.
Vice President JD Vance saw his unfavorable rating rise from 40 percent in January to 49 percent, resulting in a drop to a -11 net favorability rating. Former President Joe Biden received a -11 favorability rating, with 54 percent of respondents expressing dissatisfaction. However, his favorability has improved slightly to 43 percent, up from 39 percent in January.
Musk’s companies took a slap in the chops too. A study from Williams College discovered that his polarizing personality led to Americans having an increasingly negative view of electric vehicles as a whole, not just the ones he makes at Tesla.
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