A new poll from the Pew Research Centre shows that most Americans don’t like the world’s two richest men, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
Fourteen percent of those who answered said they didn’t like Musk, and thirty-six percent said they didn’t like him at all. Fourteen percent of people who answered said they “liked” Musk. Musk owns X and is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and other companies.
It’s important to note that opinions about Musk are very different between political parties. People who said they were likely to vote for Democrats or politicians on the left said they didn’t like Musk 85% of the time, while 73% of Republicans said they did.
This shouldn’t be a big surprise since Musk spent at least $250 million last November to help Trump and other Republicans win races. Musk has also been an important part of Trump’s second administration. He is in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and he said last week that he wants to cut the federal government’s yearly spending by at least $1 trillion.
Sixty-seven percent of Americans say they don’t like Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, even more than they dislike Musk. Republican and Democrat respondents both said they didn’t like Zuckerberg. In fact, 60% of respondents on the right said the same thing, while 76% of respondents on the left said the same thing.
Many people know that Zuckerberg’s relationship with President Trump has been very up and down. After the riot in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump was banned from Instagram and Facebook. He said at the time that “the risks” of keeping him on the stations were “simply too great.” In 2023, Trump was brought back to those venues.
As of late, Zuckerberg and the president have gotten along better. He gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration and was in Washington, D.C., last month with Musk and other tech leaders, such as Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google. Even so, most Trump supporters in D.C. told TheWrap they were still not sure about Zuckerberg’s quick support for Trump.
A list of billionaires maintained by Bloomberg says that Zuckerberg is worth $241 billion, which makes him the second richest person in the world. His wealth has grown recently because Meta’s stock price has gone up 20% since the beginning of November. Musk is still the richest person in the world, even though Tesla’s stock price has been going down lately. He is worth $385 billion.
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