Elon suffers another day short of trillionaire status

In Brief Posted: 4:09 PM PDT · June 24, 2026 Image Credits:Spencer Platt / Getty Images Amanda Silberling Elon suffers another day short of trillionaire status In a world marred with oppression and strife, one injustice rises above all else: Elon Musk is not currently a trillionaire. When SpaceX went public earlier this month, Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. He declared in a victory lap-slash-speech that he aspires to take all of us to the moon, Mars, and “maybe beyond the solar system.” He awkwardly threw his fists in the air while his acolytes cheered him on. But stock prices fluctuate, so right now he’s merely a several-hundred-billionaire, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. Frankly, it’s embarrassing.

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