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Elon Musk says he’s achieved throwing money at politicians—do you imagine him?

Editorial Board Published May 21, 2025
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk, lastly ousted from his unofficial however very influential White Home advisory function, mentioned he’s slicing again on political spending after virtually bankrolling President Donald Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign.

“In terms of political spending, I’m going to do a lot less in the future,” Musk mentioned on Tuesday on the Qatar Financial Discussion board. “I think I’ve done enough,” he added, to audible laughter from the viewers.

He has actually “done enough”—possibly an excessive amount of. The world’s richest man and “first buddy” to the president blew a bit of his huge fortune boosting Trump and the GOP with usually unethical schemes and now appears to be bleeding money. Whether or not that’s as a consequence of politics, his rising unpopularity, or his ever-growing record of kid help funds is anybody’s guess.

“If I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it,” Musk added. “I do not currently see a reason.”


President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks within the Oval Workplace on Feb. 11.

If he’s critical about stepping away from politics, then good riddance. As head of the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity, Musk delivered little however ache and chaos: gutting or proposing cuts to most cancers analysis, meals help, Social Safety, veterans’ well being care, and extra. In accordance with The New York Instances, DOGE had slashed a minimum of 58,000 federal jobs by mid-Could, with one other 148,000 on the chopping block.

“Musk scaling back his public profile does not diminish his influence. I think it can actually sharpen it,” the unnamed adviser mentioned. “He can still quietly fund stuff and support stuff he believes in, causes he believes in, but does not create unnecessary noise. These midterms will be about message discipline and a focus on the economy, not fights on X.”

Musk claims he’s placing politics on the again burner so he can refocus on his electrical car firm Tesla, the place issues aren’t going nicely, both. Buyers overtly anxious he’d taken his eye off the ball whereas taking part in kingmaker with Trump. Gross sales and inventory costs slumped. Rumors even swirled a few potential CEO shakeup, however Musk mentioned Tuesday he’s not going anyplace for a minimum of 5 years. 

Sadly for him, the numbers inform a bleak story. Tesla deliveries dropped 13% within the first three months of 2025 in comparison with final yr, based on The Wall Road Journal. And new knowledge from the Axios Harris Ballot 100 reveals Tesla’s status is in freefall. As soon as ranked eighth amongst America’s most seen firms in 2021, Tesla has now cratered to ninety fifth—lifeless final in “character” and close to the underside in “ethics” and “citizenship.”

His rocket expertise firm SpaceX isn’t faring a lot better. Axios discovered its favorability additionally collapsed, with the corporate rating ninetieth in “character” and scoring equally low on metrics like “trust,” “culture,” and “ethics.”

Axios mentioned Tesla didn’t reply to a request for touch upon the most recent polling. Every day Kos reached out as nicely, to no avail. However Musk, naturally, waved all of it off.

“Our sales are doing well at this point,” he claimed on Tuesday. “It’s already turned around.”

In the meantime, Tesla continues to be blasting out determined 0% APR lease presents and different incentives—a transparent signal the alleged turnaround is extra spin than substance. And April was one other dismal month, latest knowledge suggests.

Associated | Musk is supposedly leaving the White Home—however not our lives

However let’s not get forward of ourselves: Even when Musk actually is finished throwing cash at GOP campaigns, he nonetheless owns some of the highly effective misinformation machines on the planet. And people near him have already hinted that he may use social media to assist affect elections sooner or later.

So positive, possibly Musk is edging away from political spending. But when we’re fortunate, that is the start of the top—for his grip on our authorities, a minimum of.

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