{"id":346,"date":"2025-07-09T16:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:51:31","slug":"musk-favorability-takes-nosedive-amid-trump-feud-ddhq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/musk-favorability-takes-nosedive-amid-trump-feud-ddhq\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk favorability takes nosedive amid Trump feud: DDHQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nxs-video-iframe\" data-frame-src=\"10875872\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" layout=\"responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/redir1.thehill.com\/nxs-video-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\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n\t\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s favorability dropped again this past week amid <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5388375-elon-musk-trump-epstein-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his renewed feud<\/a> with President Trump and move <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/5390439-musks-third-party-push-puts-his-companies-at-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to launch a separate<\/a> political party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the last week, Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/polls.decisiondeskhq.com\/averages\/candidate-favorability\/elon-musk-215520\/national\/lv-rv-adults\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">net favorability in the aggregate<\/a> kept by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) dropped 3.4 points, falling just more than 20 points in the negative. The percentage that view the onetime Trump ally unfavorably reached its highest point of the president&#8217;s second term at 55.8 percent, while the percentage that view him favorably reached its lowest point yet, at 35.4 percent, as of Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decline comes as Trump\u2019s approval and favorability ratings <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5384582-trump-approval-foreign-policy-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have ticked down<\/a> a bit over the same period of time, though to a lesser extent than Musk&#8217;s, whose popularity has suffered greatly since he first joined the administration and oversaw the Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s widespread cuts across the federal workforce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 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the president and Musk first began last month as the tech billionaire railed against Trump\u2019s &#8220;big, beautiful bill\u201d after <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/5326259-elon-musk-doge-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaving the administration<\/a> at the end of his 130-day tenure as a special government employee. A war of words followed between the two men, who traded personal attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tensions showed some signs of cooling as both expressed some openness to moving on, but the dispute picked up again in recent days as Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5386557-musk-announces-america-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">officially formed his own<\/a> political party called the America Party to rival both the Republicans and Democrats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to bankrupting our country with waste &#038; graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,\u201d Musk said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1941584569523732930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post on his social platform X<\/a>. \u201cToday, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5387883-elon-musk-launches-america-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reposted another user&#8217;s comments<\/a> that said a possible platform for the party could include reducing the federal debt, modernizing the military with artificial intelligence, advancing \u201cpro tech\u201d policies, decreasing energy regulations, promoting \u201cfree speech and \u201cpro natalist\u201d goals and instituting \u201ccentrist policies everywhere else.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump slammed Musk\u2019s move, saying in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114808616176041421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sunday post on Truth Social<\/a> that he\u2019s \u201csaddened to watch Elon Musk go completely \u2018off the rails,\u2019 essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite Musk\u2019s significant wealth, he would likely have to overcome hurdles for his America Party to break into the two-party system, as many third parties have formed over the years but failed to obtain the same reach as the Democrats and GOP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His declining popularity has also been seen among Republicans who had previously viewed him more favorably since the start of his conflict with Trump. Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">polls have found<\/a> a lower <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/5343326-musk-favorability-among-republicans-drops-after-trump-feud-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">percentage of Republicans<\/a> viewing Musk favorably over the past month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s favorability dropped again this past week amid his renewed feud with President Trump and move to launch a separate political party.\u00a0 In the last week, Musk\u2019s net favorability in the aggregate kept by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) dropped 3.4 points, falling just more than 20 points in the negative. The percentage that view the onetime Trump ally unfavorably reached its highest point of the president&#8217;s second term at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}