You realized they were always shitheels. Musk was a complete visible fraud long before 2016.
Obnoxious, egocentric, very low EQ, and with almost no moral values, absolutely. Fraud? Not sure. He did make a lot of outlandish predictions, but on the other hand, Tesla revolutionized EVs (forcing everyone to follow suit), and SpaceX revolutionized space tech. He can't take credit for the technical achievements in either, but he did have the tenacity to push both through. Can't say many other people would have done that.
Indeed, he always seems like an obnoxious media attention whore to me long before he got into politics.
I tend to have a negative view of celebrities who did cameos for the Simpsons far past its peak lol
Elon is a social dumbass with the emotional maturity of an edgy 14 year old boy, but calling him a fraud I'd say is false and unproductive.