BOOM: Elon Musk Turns the Tables on Interviewer — “More People Hate You and the Media than You Realize”

Elon Musk just savagely schooled the establishment media on what the people really think about them.

The moment took place during his recent 90-minute interview with left-wing The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes.

When she started going off on how much people allegedly “loathe” Musk, he flipped the script on her.

“Maybe some people do loathe me. And that’s probably true,” he said,

“I don’t care. But the fact that, as you pointed out, a quarter billion people follow me is that I think a lot more people actually like me than don’t. And I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize!”

Boom! Absolute mic drop!

You have to see this for yourself:

In another heated moment from the interview, Elon Musk rejected Beddoes’ attempt to portray him as a “far-right” figure.

“No, I support the normal people—what you call the far right, falsely,” he corrected her, before challenging her to explain why simple, common sense policies like secure borders and safe cities are extreme.

As you might expect, she was rendered speechless.

Watch:

🔥 AWESOME! Elon Musk MIC DROPS this reporter accusing him of being "far right"

"It's actually just NORMAL PEOPLE…here are the principles. Which sound terrible? We should have secure borders, safe cities, and sensible spending."

"Which of those 3 are 'far right?'"

"I'd like… pic.twitter.com/AQueMObzN9

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 23, 2026

AWESOME! Elon Musk MIC DROPS this reporter accusing him of being “far right”

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“It’s actually just NORMAL PEOPLE…here are the principles. Which sound terrible? We should have secure borders, safe cities, and sensible spending.”

“Which of those 3 are ‘far right?'”

“I’d like to admonish YOU and the MEDIA for the ABSURD characterization of the far right. It is FALSE, MISLEADING, and NONSENSE! KEEP THIS PART IN!”

LFG @ElonMusk!

“Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years, and these policies were completely normal. In fact, one of the tricks that I think is funny is to take a speech from Obama and Hillary, and then go to someone who’s on the lunatic left, and say, ‘what do you think of the speech by Trump?'”

“They’re like, oh, wow, he’s the worst person ever. Actually, that was the speech by Obama! Or Hillary!”

Nailed it.

Boom!

Elon Musk is absolutely right, of course.

In no way is there anything “extremist” about wanting to have a safe country free of dangerous illegal immigrants.

In fact, those types of policies were the exact things Democrats like Obama and Clinton were campaigning on a decade ago!

But, don’t take my word for it, or even Elon Musk’s.

See the proof for yourself:

You remember when Democrats were AGAINST illegal immigration?

Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton. Barack Obama. Nancy Pelosi. Chuck Schumer. The list goes on and on.

Every one of them now openly support it. What changed?pic.twitter.com/fBjEDcwP9p

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) January 24, 2026

Folks on X are largely backing Elon on this one:

Exactly. Democrats from 15 years ago are considered MAGA today.

— Skalez AKA FL4Life (@TheSkalez) July 23, 2026

Elon, Elon, your making to much sense. The media, I’m including ALL of them, dislike the truth, dislike common sense, dislike anyone who dares question them or corrects them with facts and truths !

— Swedish American (@skip_strom) July 24, 2026