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Trump-Musk Fight

Jun 9, 2025

When Trump and Musk took their power struggle to a public stage and started viciously attacking each other in front of the whole world, it was shocking. When the world’s richest person is feuding with the president of the world’s wealthiest country, people notice.

Were ordinary people seeing themselves in this fight? The opinion poll done by YouGov asked, “If you had to choose, who would you side with more: 1) Donald Trump, 2) Elon Musk, 3) Neither, 4) Not sure.”

Apparently, this bizarre battle brought a moment of unity to part of the U.S. population. The opinion poll winner, by 52%, was: “I side with neither!”