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Elon Musk’s cringe-posting addiction cost Tesla over one million car sales

Ellsworth Toohey
Oct 28, 2025
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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 h…

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