“Elon Musk, a powerful and pivotal player in Trump’s inner circle, gets a shaky assessment from voters, with women clearly more critical of him than men,”Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said in the press release.

There are already signs that Elon Musk’s marriage of convenience to President Donald Trump could be a fraught union. Musk turned more than a few heads by taking the lead on defeating a government spending bill last month — Trump doesn’t like being overshadowed — and undercutting a just-announced White House AI project last week.

In January 2025, a post about tech billionaire Elon Musk, purportedly written by someone who knew him for years, was shared widely online. Philip Low, a scientist and founder of NeuroVigil, a company that developed a portable brain activity monitor,

Text messages show Elon Musk rejected a dinner invite from Nicolai Tangen, head of Norway's oil fund, and lectured him on how to be a better friend.