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Summary

Elon Musk’s job approval dropped to 41%—his lowest since joining the Trump administration—according to a Marquette Law School poll.

His favorability fell to 38%, while 58% disapproved of his work leading DOGE.

The decline follows backlash over Musk’s political involvement, including his $22 million support of Brad Schimel, who lost Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race.

Musk’s alignment with controversial Trump policies, such as calls to annex Canada, has further eroded public support.

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[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago

Again… WHY DOES HE HAVE AN APPROVAL RATING?

Accepting this normalizes unelected officials having authority.

[-] JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz 137 points 4 days ago

Alternative headline:

"38% of Americans are so addicted to NewsMax, Fox News, and OAN that they can't stop sucking the toes of billionaires to "own the libs", even as he cuts billions of dollars for them and the veterans, children, poor, sick, and needy."

Millions of people will die for the sake of Hairplug Himmler's fragile ego and masculinity.

Don’t forget his own source of propaganda, twitter.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 4 days ago

I have no sympathy whatsoever for people who vote against their best interests

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 128 points 4 days ago

This motherfucker was not elected. His approval ratings do not matter because nobody voted for him. Jesus fucking Christ.

[-] bamboo 38 points 4 days ago

Not to defend Musk or Trump, but this is literally what Trump campaigned on. Trump said he'd be dictator on day one, and that Musk would be in charge of gutting agencies. Anyone who is surprised by their actions after months of projecting their plan is naive and/or ignorant.

[-] killea@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

Yep and the media's general complicity with this aberration of a government, even citing an "approval rating" of someone who bought and forced their way into an illegitimate position.

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

I agree but that's irrelevant. The public's approval of a person only matters if that person was elected to a position by the public. Musk was not elected, so his approval ratings amongst the public do not matter.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 23 points 3 days ago

Talking about his "approval rating" legitimizes Musk's "role". Not Senate-confirmed, unlike the departments he's decimating. And after the damage is done, they're going to sweep him out of there next month and say "he doesn't even work here anymore!"

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 3 days ago

This is what I keep screaming when I read stuff like this.

[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 27 points 3 days ago
[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

He's an illegal immigrant who lied on citizenship documents thus is committing crimes in America. According to this administration he deserves to be in cecot concentration camp.

[-] stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

he deserves much much worse.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Why did they hang Toxie? o.0

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 66 points 4 days ago

Shit, now he will never win another election

[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

You say it as if there will be an election

[-] itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago

There never was. Pretty sure that's the joke. No one elected him. No one nominated him for anything. No one confirmed him.

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[-] the_q@lemm.ee 17 points 3 days ago

Guys, my approval rating is at 76% as an unelected cat owner.

[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 40 points 3 days ago

Reminder, he is not an elected official approval ratings don’t mean shit for this POS.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

FWIW, approval ratings don't matter for elected officials either. They have some meaning for a couple of months leading up to an election, sometimes.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

If it translates to massively less Tesla sales, then it means something. Tesla's valuation is so stupidly high because of musk. The big financial institutions are betting on him because they've done very well by him in the past. If tesla crashes and burns hard enough, his toxicity will spread to all his other ventures as well and his bullshit smart guy persona will be left in the dust.

[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Agreed hopefully this is just the beginning of the downfall of musk.

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[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 11 points 3 days ago

Those are rookie numbers. It’s not at 0% yet.

[-] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

My dyslexia made me see 14% for a sec and I got excited

[-] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 27 points 3 days ago

We need a French solution to the Musk problem.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

That reminds me, I need to sharpen my guillo...uh, apparatus.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

When a group of his AI company's investors sue to block the AI company's purchase of Twitter (because in what world did they agree to that?), the Saudi solution goes back on the table.

[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Elon Musk’s job approval

It's phrased in such a way that I'm reminded of politician's approval ratings, but he's not an elected official. Are there polls to determine the approval of persons appointed to position by the U.S. President, or are we talking about his approval as Tesla/Space X is concerned?

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 41 points 4 days ago

41% still think he's doing a good job. Wow. Just... wow.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

"But if I don't lick boots, who am I?"

- Bootlickers

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 9 points 3 days ago

I wonder what my approval ratings are.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

I approve of you.

[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

why does he have an approval rating at all. he's just there hanging out and messing stuff up.

[-] j0ester@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

He doesn’t even wear a suit!

[-] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

I really hope he's stupid enough to fail to understand that this is why most of the ruling class is smart enough to keep their mouth shut in public. He's the best advertisement of all time for "Billionaires do not deserve the wealth they have". Keep talking Musky.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 days ago

He deserves far worse

This is just the beginning

[-] Pondis@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Is Trumps plan to have someone around him so universally despised that he looks good by comparison?

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

How is this cunt able to walk the streets?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 16 points 4 days ago

why do you think he wears his toddler son as a helmet?

[-] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Jesus fucking christ the stock is 282 right now. That is a 5% gain just today. What the actual fuck.

[-] DarkDecay@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Think they're buying the dip right now. Warren Buffet bet on BYD at the start of the EV car revolution. That's where the smart money is and will likely stay

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 days ago

I wonder what's going on behind the scenes to get that up... not my field so idk

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Politico report - admin leaked that Elon is supposedly going to take a step back from the admin to "focus on his businesses".

You'd think that today's earlier report about Q1 shipments overall being down 14% year-over-year would way outweigh that, but Tesla prices are 98% vibe-based and 2% how the company is actually doing.

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Deny, depose, deport his ass. SpaceX -> junior division of NASA. Tesla, new CEO. Do whatever with the rest. Nationalize all stock, people making < $50_000 get a dividend

[-] infectoid@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Given that both Elon Musk and I have a combined wealth of $330B, why does nobody care about my approval rating?

On a serious note, I always thought approval ratings were reserved for politicians. But I guess I don’t understand lots of things.

[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

It's not like he's elected lol, he doesn't have constituents

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

BBNO$ was walking off the stage at the Juno awards last weekend and dropped "oh, and Elon Musk is a piece of GARBAGE".

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