He desires to take the corporate personal — very personal.
Area and electrical automobile tycoon Elon Musk shared a bawdy meme on his X platform that joked about tapping into his deep pockets to buy MSNBC following the bombshell information that Comcast deliberate to spin off the lefty cable community.
“And lead us not into temptation …,” Musk, 53, wrote within the X publish accompanied by a meme displaying what seems to be a priest struggling to stay pure subsequent to a girl exposing herself.
Within the racy meme, the priest is overlayed with the textual content “Elon Musk attempting to not purchase” whereas an MSNBC emblem was positioned over the girl’s backside.
Virtually precisely two years in the past, Musk dusted off the similar meme, with totally different textual content, to poke enjoyable at President-elect Donald Trump’s temptations to return to Twitter (which has since been rebranded to X).
Over current days, the billionaire and serial meme poster has bantered about buying the cable information platform and overhauling it.
MSNBC’s guardian firm Comcast — the guardian firm of NBC — has been eyeing plans to spin off practically all of its cable channels into an organization dubbed SpinCo. Different channels within the group embody CNBC, Oxygen, E!, Syfy and the Golf Channel.
Critics of the cable information community have seized on the event to pose questions on MSNBC’s future in gentle of the dramatic shift and internally staff on the channel have been gripped by nervousness.
“Everyone seems to be in a panic as a result of the whole lot is up within the air,” one MSNBC supply beforehand advised The Submit.
MSNBC is house to liberal darlings akin to Rachel Maddow, Pleasure Reid and Lawrence O’Donnell.
Amid the upheaval, soon-to-be first son Donald Trump Jr. joked that Musk can buy MSNBC.
“Hey @elonmusk, I’ve the funniest concept ever!!!” the Trump scion wrote on X in response to a different publish suggesting that MSNBC could be up on the market.
“Probably the most entertaining end result, particularly if ironic, is most probably,” Musk replied on X.
Podcast titan Joe Rogan chimed in, writing “When you purchase MSNBC I would really like Rachael Maddow’s job. I’ll put on the identical outfit and glasses, and I’ll inform the identical lies.”
Musk replied, “Deal.”
Up to now, Musk solely seems to be joking about buying the liberal information community. Musk has an estimated web price of $348 billion and is the richest individual on the planet, in accordance with Bloomberg.
It won’t all be enjoyable and video games, although. The tech mogul additionally joked about buying Twitter (now X) for years earlier than he truly pulled the set off.
“How a lot is it?” he requested in 2017 on the platform.
Finally, Musk bought the platform in 2022 for $44 billion in a deal that wrapped up in October of that yr.
Musk has grown more and more political over current years and has spent ample time within the wake of the Nov. 5 presidential election at Mar-a-Lago assembly with Trump, 78, and the incoming president’s allies.
The Submit contacted an MSNBC rep for remark.
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