Elon Musk has not won any popularity contest in 2025, a period plagued by a popularity in decline among the liberals as Musk approached President Donald Trump before a complicated public divorce of Trump, which weighs a lot about Musk’s most outstanding company, the giant of electric vehicles and autonomous Tesla.
Key data
About 55% of Americans have an unfavorable vision of Musk, compared to 37% that has a positive opinion, according to a Bulletin silver panel of the Nate Silver statistic that adds hundreds of surveys on Musk.
That is Musk’s greatest unfavorability since the creation of the tracker in January 2024, and Musk’s unfavorability shot 10 percentage points during the first half of 2025.
As expected, Musk’s public perception looked between the Democrats given Musk’s highly powerful role as Trump’s main lieutenant, whom Musk donated more than 200 million dollars to help him choose, since only 16% of the Democrats have a favorable opinion of Musk, according to a survey between June 6 and 8 by Morning Consult, compared to 82% that has an unfavorable vision of the 82% multimillionaire
But Musk’s perception by Republicans was also attributed when his mandate as main responsible for Trump cost cuts ended up in flames.
Two thirds (67%) of Republicans have a favorable opinion of Musk compared to 28% favorable, according to a survey conducted from June 6 to 9 by The Economist/Yougov, below 83% and 9% of favorable and unfavorable qualifications in the December iteration of the survey.
The opinions of the independents on Musk also deteriorated, since Musk went from a favorable/unfavorable division of 42% in December to a favorable/unfavorable division from 27% to 59% in June, according to the Economist/Yougov survey.
Tesla collapses after Musk’s loss
Musk and Tesla are impossible to unravel (Wall Street analysts of Americans sees the company in a favorable way, according to a June survey by Associated Press/NORC. Tesla’s financial statements show clear evidence of damage to the brand. The company delivered 13 % less vehicles to customers during the first half of 2025 than during the same period of the previous year, since the profits were reduced approximately 29 % interannual, according to the combined FACTSET forecasts on the results of the first quarter and the consensus projections of the analysts on the profits of the second quarter that will be published at the end of this month.
Large number
280 billion dollars. That is approximately the amount of market value that Tesla lost during the first semester of 2025, more than six times the total valuation of Ford. Tesla’s actions collapsed 21 % during the period. The S&P 500 won 6 % during the same period, including reinvesting dividends, while Tesla was among the 30 actions with the worst performance of the 500 shares index.
Forbes assessment
Musk remains, by far, the richest person on the planet, with a net worth of 407,000 million dollars at the close of the market on June 30, according to our last calculations. His fortune was reduced by 14,000 million dollars with respect to the late 2024, since the South African Musk enjoyed an increase in the value of its participations in its private companies XAI, the generative artificial intelligence startup that absorbed the social networks company previously known as Twitter in March, and Spacex, the aerospace and satellite Internet giant.
Cita Crucial
“It is hard for us to think about something analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly,” wrote JP Morgan Ryan Brinkman in a note to his clients this spring.
This article was originally published by Forbes Us.
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