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.

138 points

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.

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37 points

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

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6 points

*Xitter

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1 point

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

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130 points

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

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38 points

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.

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20 points

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.

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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.

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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!”

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3 points

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

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67 points

Shit, now he will never win another election

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7 points

You say it as if there will be an election

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19 points

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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MAGA supporter: Donald confirmed him. That’s good enough for me. These billionaires are for us!

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50 points

Again… WHY DOES HE HAVE AN APPROVAL RATING?

Accepting this normalizes unelected officials having authority.

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41 points

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

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“But if I don’t lick boots, who am I?”

- Bootlickers

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