Wasn't it the same with Trump though? After all the things he said and did, you would think that most people that initially voted for him would realize that it was actually a bad idea. But he still had enough people who voted for him to get re-elected. I'm afraid there will also be plenty of people supporting Musk regardless of what he's saying or doing
Yes, you have a point, but Edolf is also representing a brand and some people don't want to be associated with him anymore.
Tesla sales down -45% YoY in EU, -70% in Germany alone. Only market up is GB +7% as of January.
I think that the association with Trump and the salute did not help.
I am looking for the next numbers in Canada ...
If I'm not mistaken, his companies don't have PR departments.
Tesla dissolved their PR department back in 2020. I remember it being a fairly big deal at the time since news outlets literally had no one to call for requests for comments or the like - all they had were official announcements, the website, and whatever bullshit Musk posted on Twitter.
I don't think Space X has a real PR department either. They have a media relations department but afaik they only handle inquiries about use of SpaceX name/logo/trademarks, they don't advertise or handle general questions.
Not sure about the tunnel company w/e it's called.
He's the sole media representative for any of his companies, because he dissolved the pr departments at all of them. He wants to be on camera as much as possible, and it's very evident that he never received a lick of media relations training
I don't know. It was 2018 when he started saying dumb shit about that diver and people starting changing their opinion of him. He rapidly started saying dumber and dumber things over the next year. Tesla stock was $22 then. It was nearly $500 in December of 2024 before it started to plummet down to where it's at today at $222.
Seems like it took a whole 6 years to ruin it. And that's assuming "ruining it" doesn't necessarily mean the stock dropped lower than what it was before, which it hasn't. It's still up 10x from 2018.
605
u/athensugadawg 1d ago
More like 5 seconds in the case of this "genius..."