Posted on 07/09/2025 2:52:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s favorability rating has plummeted amid his renewed feud with President Donald Trump over government spending and his decision to launch a new political party.
From The Hill:
In the last week, Musk’s net favorability in the aggregate kept by Decision Desk HQ dropped 3.4 points, falling just over 20 points in the negative. The percentage that view the onetime Trump ally unfavorably reached its highest point of the president’s second term at 55.8 percent, while the percentage that view him favorably reached its lowest point yet, at 35.4 percent, as of Monday.
The decline comes as Trump’s approval and favorability ratings have ticked down a bit over the same period of time but not to the extent of Musk, whose popularity has suffered greatly since he first joined the administration and oversaw the Department of Government Efficiency’s widespread cuts across the federal workforce.
The feud between the president and Musk first began last month as the tech billionaire railed against Trump’s “big beautiful bill” after leaving the administration at the end of his 130-day tenure as a special government employee. A war of words followed between the two men, who traded personal attacks.
It is not clear what the new party’s platform will look like, as it does not yet have a website. In a post on X, Musk wrote, “When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.”
A poll published on July 2 revealed that about 40 percent of Americans, especially young voters and Republican men, would be interested in looking at Musk’s new party as an alternative to the GOP.
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Well Elons defense mechanism is to accuse everyone of pedophilia when he gets in argument with you and he’s losing. So that kinda wears on people after so many times.
I must say my favorability rating of this guy falls into the same arena as the democrats.
He meets much of that criteria such as being over emotional, acting like a lunatic, appears to be Trump’s enemy now, is against the Republican party, etc.
I just wish this loon would just go away and take that new party with him.
He seems to bed anyone he wants, relying on his wealth to face another day...
you would think someone as smart as Elon would understand that tax cuts grow the economy, and will result in more tax revenue not less.
Never liked the guy to begin with. Got rich through climate change and green energy hoaxes.
A traitor against Trump who would split the vote and bring in a Dem/Socialist House, Senate and governors’ seats. With millions for campaigns against Trump supporters in various races.
He should rate below hemorrhoids and sciatic nerve pain in popularity now.
“not clear what the new party’s platform will look like”
More H1B visas, no doubt.
Elon is a smart man, but he doesn’t understand Trump’s status, power, popularity and resolve. “The Donald” doesn’t need troublemakers.
Flick that bugger.
Don’t mess around with the The Teflon Don. Donald John Trump.
TOO_SMART_BY_HALF_PING!
A new conservative party only divides us. If he wants to be viable, he needs to steer it from the inside. Ask Ross Perot!
He also has NO ability at all at personal relationships/getting along with others.
Ross Perot did it because he hated Bush.
SPOT ON!
I don’t care how smart you are. When you habitually abuse mind-altering drugs, it wrecks your life.
“Well Elons defense mechanism is to accuse everyone of pedophilia when he gets in argument with you and he’s losing.”
Release the files like promised and nobody will believe you’re a pedophile Mr. Prez.
Crash and Burn Baby!
His respectability sucks.
He's arrogant and has a big mouth.
No amount of rocket launches or money can fix him now.
Musk is a genius when it comes to technology.
Thanks to SpaceX (not necessarily NASA), America is leading the space race, way ahead of China and especially Russia - left crumbling in the dust.
Elon should just refrain from anything that has to do with politics.
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