"More Hated Than Netanyahu" - Elon Musk's Favorability PLUMMETS In SHOCKING Poll
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A new poll shows that Elon Musk is the most unpopular public figure in the United States, surpasses even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Elon Musk has been in the public eye for a few short years, but is now facing the consequences of getting involved in politics.
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Elon Musk, story comes out, and Adam, I'm coming to you first on this one.
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Elon Musk is officially the most unpopular public figure in America.
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If you want to go to it, Rob, do you have a video on that or no?
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Let me read the story and then we'll go to the video.
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So Elon Musk, richest man in the world, a Gallup poll conducted between July 7th and July 21st,
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found that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the most unpopular public figure in America
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with 61% of respondents holding an unfavorable opinion, 6% have no opinion,
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and only 33% reporting a positive view, marking a decline from his net favorability,
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Musk's unpopularity surpasses even Israeli's prime minister.
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Then as Pete Hex said, Newsom, J.D. Vance, Joe Biden, RFK, AOC, Macron, Bernie, Zelensky, Pope, Leo.
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It's very interesting when you see a list like this.
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And then some of the prime ministers on the other, Democrats giving him a minus 86 net favorability
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His role as a special government employee heading door.
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So, Adam, why do you think his net favorability is worse than Bibi, than Rubio, than Trump?
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Because Elon Musk, a few short years ago, he went from being Iron Man to basically being
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internet troll to politically disobedient to basically out of the White House.
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Obviously, he moved out of California into Dallas, got into the political limelight.
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Combined with Trump, dark MAGA, and these are the ramifications of basically getting involved
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You say, you know, Pat, you always talk about, you know, no matter what you do, no matter
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When you step into the limelight, and you're involved in politics, and you make an endorsement
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like this, you know who the most vicious, vicious people are?
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If you do them wrong, they will never forgive you.
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They might say they disagree with you, they want nothing to do with you, but they're not
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Elon Musk, this is, have you heard of anything from Elon in the last month?
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He's only talking about rockets, only rockets and Mars.
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He's been incredibly quiet politically, and he's been focused on business.
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In my opinion, I think stakeholders, shareholders, board of directors, they're all saying, listen,
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Do you want to stay the richest man in the world?
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Do you want your companies to be the richest companies in the world?
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Two to one is unfavorability ratings, meaning two people hate him for every one person that
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But I mean, but at the end of the day, though, you have to admit, though, that this guy played
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a huge, huge role in getting this guy, Donald Trump, into the White House.
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Dude, that's not, by the way, that is not chump change, Adam.
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Listen, 250, 100 million is what it used to be.
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Everybody was loving him, except obviously the left, because they got in Hitler.
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Any movement that he did, they're like, oh, that's a Nazi salute.
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But the same token, when you give $250 million and you help somebody get in, then that person
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Allegedly, in the White House, you get punched in the face and you have a black eye.
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And the fallout is that guy, who's the most popular president, I think, in the history
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of the world, of America, that guy turns on you.
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Of course, it's going to look bad for you, bro.
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They made Tesla's, for how many months were Tesla's getting firebombed and-
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It's still happening because they made everybody hate this guy.
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And love him or hate him, bro, this guy saved us from a Kamala, Joe Biden, whatever
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Do not forget, this guy put his money where his mouth is and saved us.
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So I can't, I don't understand how could he be hated more than some of these others' names
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Well, you know, in politics, no good deed will go unpunished.
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And he certainly was huge in the election helping.
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You are already going to have a big negative polling difference, you know, on the people
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And then when you go up against Trump, what happened with one-third to one-half of the
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Two negative and then one negative is three negative.
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He went up against the hero of most of the Republican parties who wanted him in the White House,
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I didn't give a very good grade based on execution, but I said, this is what I voted for.
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Driving international trade and being not America only, but America first, that's what
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So now the numbers show that he's highly negative.
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So to me, I think there's a complete different side of it as well when you're going through
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By the way, just so you know, if you're on this list, at least you're on this list.
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So folks, your name's not on this list for a reason.
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Most people's names are not on this list for a reason.
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If you're on this list, loved or hated, favorable or unfavorable, the one score that they're not
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putting, it's also saying that these are some of the most influential people in the world.
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At times, you know, you can also go through a certain thing.
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Remember lost, Elon found, got a cause, he committed, lifestyle, graduate lifestyle.
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I'm just saying we all, you know, so then maybe you think you're bigger than Trump and
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And the market said, look, we, you're very important.
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It definitely doesn't happen if he doesn't buy X.
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Because if he doesn't buy X and doesn't bring back Alex Jones, the Tates, the bunch of other
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people who are loud, who are finally back on X, they got their voice back and it's still
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being ran by the old guy, not Dorsey, the other Indian guy.
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I don't remember his name, but you know who I'm talking about.
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YouTube no longer flags a lot of the stuff that we're saying.
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And the day Elon was buying Twitter, I called every single bank to try to give $10 million
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to go in because I'm in on this guy being a great operator.
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You guys, I talked about it on the podcast, October of 2022.
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And the only person that was doing it was Kathy.
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So I'm a supporter and a believer in what he's doing as an operator.
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But at the same time, one man took bullets and almost died.
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And one man at the age of 79 years old campaigned nonstop after going through everything that he
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went through since 2016 when Elon didn't support him.
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So it's very important to realize today it's his season.
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We're backstage yesterday with Swazzo, Ellis, and Okafor and Hart.
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And I'm like, so what do you think about the event?
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He says, this reminds me of 2019 when the late Kobe was there and, you know, Bush and all this other stuff.
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They were hosting the event last time in front of everybody.
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It doesn't mean it's going to be Trump's show in 2028.
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It doesn't mean that Trump's going to be more influential in 2029 than Elon.
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Elon could be more influential than Trump in 2029.
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Because he crushed it at the best state thinking he's bigger than Trump.
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Where he, you know, people are like, dude, I don't like the way you're handling yourself.
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So sometimes when you're in your own community and people tell you how amazing you are, you start thinking you're bigger than, you're not.
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And I'm not surprised that his unfavorability is here.
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Although I don't think it's going to stay there forever.
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Because when he made the tweet about he's on the Epstein list, Trump, wait till this gets dropped.
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And, Rob, do you have the clip where Trump's being asked about Elon?
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And he says, so what do you think about Elon Musk and what happened here?
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A new Gallup poll says that Elon Musk is the most unpopular public figure in the country right now.
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I'm wondering, do you miss having him around the White House or is that poll accurate?
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I think he had a bad moment, really bad moment.
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That is such a non-what-we're-used-to-Trump answer.
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Think about how much more improved and how measured, to use the word grace, Trump is.
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The old Trump would have been like, loser, get him out of here, get out of here, little rocket boy.
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You've got to give Trump a little respect for the way he is handling this situation.
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Musk said that he was on the Epstein list, gave a peace sign, walked out the door, and Trump has the grace.
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There has never been a more battle-tested politically with limelight than him.
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When it comes down to a limelight in the history of mankind, let me say this to you.
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When it comes to the history of mankind under limelight, not a single soul has been more battle-tested than Trump.
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Nobody knew who he was until a speech in 2004 at the DNC.
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Nobody has experienced more of people targeting him than Donald Trump.
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So to him, a question like this is like a regular Tuesday.
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But even though he has been battle-tested, that's undisputable.
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The Trump 2.0 is such a better presidency than Trump 1.0.
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But because he doesn't have to get re-elected, that's what he's done.
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If you had to be re-elected, that's when you would say, you know what?
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Let me have a little grace and be a little more distinguished.
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The fact that he doesn't have to be that way is why I respect him.
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Let's go through the whole thing from the day the president chose to run.
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Then, entitled, bored, it's me, rebellion, it's unfair, it's unfair, it's unfair.
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I've never had a better job of being a president.
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And a part of being legacy in history is to learn how to manage team of rivals.
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On the power versus force chart, I was trying to think when you started talking about him,
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where would you put Trump right now in the chart?
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And Rob, if you can, bro, but the power versus...
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And I know we talked about us about two, three weeks ago.
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Pat, I want to know Trump right now with the battle test, with everything that he's been
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going through, from the hate, from destroying him with his money, from the lawfare, from the
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bullet to his head, to where he's at right now, even talking kindly about a guy that
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I would maybe go acceptance, reason on some things, but I'm just...
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I got to tell you, I think he's somewhere sometimes between the love and joy.
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Because in his mind, when you're still in, like right now, we had a call yesterday.
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Because we had to overcome a one of the 20 crisis.
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I'm telling you, it was one of the 20 crisis you experienced in business.
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And it costs us a lot of money every time we go through it.
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Well, we had this call, and we're going through it, right?
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I said, so we've known about this since Friday.
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Are you not calling me because you don't want to bother me because I'm running it with my insurance company?
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I said, there's one person in the company, and it's only one person, that you get to call him if there's a problem, a tier one problem on his birthday, on his anniversary, on vacation, on a company trip.
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Because my guys were like, I was very surprised.
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You never called me when I was on PTO and I was on vacation.
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I said, yes, I don't want to call you because I want you to enjoy your PTO.
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If a tier one crisis happened, I will call you.
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But I'm not the guy that calls you if not tier one crisis.
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But for you, you don't get to treat me that way.
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There's still 90% of stuff that's not done yet.
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Once he gets to the point that he knows some of these tariffs, the Panama Canal, some of
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these things are done, the peace is coming, I think you are going to see him going there.
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That's why he still can't show too much love and joy.
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