People really want to know how rich Elon Musk is, though, at all times. In the past five years, Google searches for “Elon Musk net worth” are many times more frequent than the same search for Zuckerberg,

Is Elon Musk's political profile and BFF status with President Trump hurting sales of Austin-based Tesla? Maybe — but it's complicated, analysts say. Why it matters: Tesla is by far the U.S. electric vehicle sales leader and long the world's top seller (though it has recently been trading the lead with China's BYD).