Despite the unrelentingly vicious leftist efforts to bring him down, Elon Musk is doing better than ever financially with the wealth of the world’s richest man soaring to new heights.
According to Thursday afternoon’s Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List, the Tesla/SpaceX CEO’s net worth is now more than $680 billion, blowing away the next wealthiest person on the list, Google co-founder Larry Page who comes in at a mere $249 billion.
BREAKING: Elon Musk is now worth $684.9 billion.
• The first person in history to reach this level of net worth.
• The richest person in the world.
• The only individual in the $600B club
• Projected to become world’s first trillionaire next year. pic.twitter.com/c1XGplL8jq— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) December 17, 2025
Jeff Bezos, who founded online retailing and streaming colossus Amazon.com, was in third place with $239 billion. The top five was rounded out by Google co-founder Sergey Brin with $229.9 billion, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison with $229.6 billion.
Not only is Musk thriving, but this year’s Democrat-led campaign to damage the then-Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) boss by inciting domestic terrorist attacks on Tesla dealerships and charging stations has failed miserably with the electric vehicle and robotics company’s stock hitting a new record high this week, more mud in the left’s eye.
$TSLA hits a new record close, surpassing its prior all-time high of $488.54, reached last year. pic.twitter.com/1T7qSx4r9s
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) December 16, 2025
The stock soared after Musk announced that the company’s robo-taxi testing “is underway with no occupants in the car” in a post to X.
Testing is underway with no occupants in the car
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2025
According to Fox Business: “Tesla shares were also boosted by an announcement that the California Department of Motor Vehicles will pause the 30-day sales suspension it imposed after regulators determined Tesla’s marketing of its self-driving tech using the brand names Autopilot and Full Self-Driving was misleading, as the tech requires supervision and isn’t autonomous.”
“The California DMV delayed the suspension by 90 days to give Tesla an opportunity to remedy the situation. A separate suspension of its manufacturing license for 30 days was put on hold indefinitely,” the outlet reported.
One X user put Musk’s wealth in perspective, at least from a political standpoint.
🚨 BREAKING: Despite leftist attempts to cancel, jail, and bankrupt him for over a year now, Elon Musk is now worth an astounding $600 BILLION — the most of any individual in world history, per Forbes
This absolutely DWARFS George Soros’ $7.5 billion.
It’s game on 😏🔥 pic.twitter.com/YU5Nr8fyCh
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 15, 2025
The company is also set to reap a windfall in robotics with Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robots set to go into mass production.
Optimus https://t.co/SaZlswzSGO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 30, 2025
It’s been a true American success story for Musk, with the mega-billionaire sharing a clip of a former Tesla employee
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2025
“In 2008, when Tesla was at its darkest moment, he [Elon] put in his personal last millions of dollars to fund it. He was even couch-surfing in Menlo Park and paying my business expenses with personal credit card debt,” the ex-employee said.
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