The day before voting, the billionaire appeared at a rally in Green Bay in a giant hat in the shape of yellow cheese – this was to be a reference to the term “cheesehead”, which are described by people from Wisconsin and fans of the Green Bay Packers football team. During the meeting, he handed voters two checks to a million dollars (approx. PLN 4 million). He did this for signing “petitions on opposition to judges-active”.
Just a few hours later Tesla recorded the largest quarterly decline in sales in history – amounting to 13 percent The company's main rival, however, recorded an increase of 60 percent. And this is not the end of Musk's problems.
From January this year, his assets have decreased by over a quarter – to $ 302 billion. (approx. PLN 1.2 trillion). It's $ 130 billion. (approx. PLN 510 billion) less than at the beginning of the year, when it reached $ 432 billion. (approx. PLN 1.8 trillion).
Despite these, he remains at the top of the ranking of the richest people in the world – leaving Jeff Bezos by over $ 100 billion. back (approx. PLN 392 billion). However, this is not the most such time for Musk. Only in the last few, after the administration of Trump's administer, Musk lost $ 20 billion. (approx. PLN 78 billion). He also had to pay a lot for the function that Trump entrusted to him.
A precious alliance
After winning in the election, he made Musk the head of the newly created reform authority – the Department of Government Efficiency, in brief Doge). The billionaire received the task of limiting government expenditure and transforming federal bureaucracy. As part of this function, Elon Musk has released thousands of federal employees in recent months. However, his days as a “special government employee” in Trump's administration can also come to an end.
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According to people from the circle of Trump familiar with the subject, Musk's office may end in May or June. They claim that Musk “crossed his role” in Washington.
All this chaos deeply hurt his public image and hit Tesla hard, which is increasingly losing his former base of eco-liberal supporters. “Muska alliance with the extreme right set fire to the Tesla brand in the eyes of (…) leftist customers” – CNN journalists write. Attempts to attract buyers from conservative areas have failed, more and more people believe that in order to save the company, Musk is reaching for desperate funds.
“You can buy a lot of things for money, but not everything. And because the sale of Tesla is still falling, Musk clearly convinces that he is not the only person who is distributing cards” – sums up CNN. Other billionaires close to Donald Trump have also recently lost tens of billions of dollars. For example, the property of Jeff Bezos, general director, melted by over $ 45 billion. (approx. PLN 176 billion), and Marek Zuckerberg by over $ 28 billion (approx. PLN 110 billion).
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