Elon Musk spent $300 million buying himself a spot in Trump's administration and all he got was a loss of over one million Tesla sales.

Yale economists put a number on what everyone already suspected: Musk's transformation from cringe-humor tech bro to MAGA simp has been catastrophic for the car company he pretends he founded.

As reported by CNN, Tesla's U.S. sales would have been 67% to 83% higher from October 2022 to April 2025 without what researchers call the "Musk partisan effect." That's between 1 million and 1.26 million vehicles that didn't sell because the CEO couldn't stop with the edgelord shitposting. 00:00/01:53 10

Musk essentially ran the world's most expensive marketing campaign for every other electric vehicle manufacturer. Democratic buyers — you know, the environmen

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