Summary
Elon Musk’s net worth has dropped by $110.8 billion since its peak in December 2024, largely due to Tesla’s stock decline following Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China.
However, his close ties to Trump and influence over government contracts, including Starlink deals, may help him recover.
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That’s a good start. There’s still a long way to go, though.
Only another $352B to go. Trump has bankrupted other followers, rooting for him to do it again.
fuck. I’d laugh so. fucking. hard. if they both went bankrupt. You got no idea. I would be SO happy.
It would actually be astonishing if that happened to Elon. I would be sooo happy.
It’s literally impossible. The only way his account gets zeroed is with a bullet.
It’s literally impossible. The only way his account gets zeroed is with a bullet.
Then it’s not impossible, just improbable.
Not if his net worth drops enough to the point that a few lawsuits can drain what’s left of his assets.
If Alex Jones can be ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars from a lawsuit from a relatively small group of families, then I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of it happening to Musk. (Even if it is still tiny)
Impossible is a confident statement.
Musk also borrows money. I think that it is entirely possible for his wealth not just reach 0, but to turn negative.
Tesla is a sinking ship and Musk knows it. It’s incompatible with his personal beliefs and its customer base are the enemy. I think the goal here is to drain as much value as he can, shore up his wealth via other means and abandon the brand entirely - probably while blaming liberals and protestors etc.
Is it known if he’s selling down yet?!
He violated SEC rules when he bought up Twitter stock, I wouldn’t be shocked if he was selling off positions without reporting it. Who’s going to enforce the laws/rules against him?
Unpopular opinion:
“Poorer” is never a word that need be used to describe any economic downturn associated with a billionaire’s finances.
“Drop in net worth” is great because one can post the pre/post net worth so we can see that they are in no way poor, even if “poorer” is technically a usable word.
Barring personal disaster, they will never be poor.
I kind of appreciate the juxtaposition of ‘100 billion dollars’ and ‘poor’
Barring personal disaster, they will never be poor.
I’m trying to think what personal disaster could possibly happen to render Elon poor. I feel like a new administration could come in, declare him a traitor, cease all his assets, and he still wouldn’t be poor. Once you’ve got that kind of money, I’m sure you have millions squirreled away here and there.
Thankfully, the dead can’t hold assets.
Guillotine would do the trick.
His head in a basket would still be rich as hell
I’m okay with that. It’s free to enjoy the cash as much as it wants.
Once you’ve got that kind of money, I’m sure you have millions squirreled away here and there.
That’s kind of right. He likely has liquid funds stuffed away in all kinds of places, possibly in different currencies on different continents. The only way to put someone like this in the poorhouse is to bankrupt every single one of his investments, while simultaneously freezing all his funds internationally.
From a finance perspective, a billionaire is a few orders of magnitude beyond “escape velocity” from ever being poor. I think most of us would need a few tens-of-millions USD in cash to even consider achieving such a thing.
Another way to look at it is that the billions in “net worth” he has accumulated are just ablative armor for real spendable wealth. Consider the move he made with Twitter: the objective was controlling the platform and discourse on it, full stop. Losing tens of billions didn’t matter - it wasn’t real money in the first place (mostly stock) and wasn’t spendable in the conventional sense. DOGE is a similar play in that the kinds of unfair advantages being gained are worth at least what he’s losing.
He’s not focused on that. He’s helping his bro dismantle the checks and balances so he can make trillions more in government contracts and corporate tax cuts. He’s more focused on robbing the American taxpayers than some dumb little car company.
My theory is that he’s always known Tesla was massively overvalued and it was only a matter of time before the company’s stock started correcting towards a more realistic value for the amount of profit it actually generates. As such, he needed to take drastic action(s) to find other gold mines for him to exploit to retain his wealth base.
Emerald mines
he largely abandoned tesla since like 2022, i believe. he was focused on getting that 56bn payout by tesla and bounced.
Consider it an expenditure to secure the american market. As in, the America.
I’d much rather he lose his head than lose a single dollar.
We can only hope they bring that punishment option back when the Nuremberg style trials happen for these traitors.
Why not both?
More… more!!! Kylo meme here
Bankrupt the Nazi traitor. (Not all conservatives are Nazis. I single out Elon specifically)
I don’t.
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He pretty literally holds the purse of the federal government, so I’m not sure 111 Billion matters much any more.
“Everything Trump touches dies.” Look it up.
King trump’s curse.
King Mierdas.
Lazy articles like this drive me crazy. It’s not “largely due to tariffs.” It started before Trump was even in office! It’s because Musk’s brand is finally toxic enough that no one is buying Teslas anymore.
Sales are cratering everywhere. Australia down by over 70%. Europe and China down by 50%. US data seems to be somewhere between a 10-30% drop.
Please look at the 12, 24 and 60 months chart : i will be happy when TSLA is 30% or more below the price it was when he completed the Twitter buyout. Also some of his mission critical money is under non publicity traded companies: the space stuff that will get government contracts. Letting Tesla suffer is good theatre.
The valuation of the stock market is fake anyways. (ESPECIALLY bubble stocks like tsla) This sadly doesn’t affect his lifestyle or the power he yields in any way.
He won’t care. He’s got the availability of the US tax funds now.
