He needs to take the corporate personal — very personal.
House 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 submit 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 trying not to buy” whereas an MSNBC brand was positioned over the girl’s backside.
Virtually precisely two years in the past, Musk dusted off the identical meme, with completely 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 dad or mum firm Comcast — the dad or mum 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 embrace 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 employees on the channel have been gripped by nervousness.
“Everyone is in a panic because everything is up in the air,” one MSNBC supply beforehand advised The Submit.
MSNBC is residence to liberal darlings similar to Rachel Maddow, Pleasure Reid and Lawrence O’Donnell.
Amid the upheaval, soon-to-be first son Donald Trump Jr. joked that Musk should buy MSNBC.
“Hey @elonmusk, I have the funniest idea ever!!!” the Trump scion wrote on X in response to a different submit suggesting that MSNBC could be up on the market.
“The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely,” Musk replied on X.
Podcast titan Joe Rogan chimed in, writing “If you buy MSNBC I would like Rachael Maddow’s job. I will wear the same outfit and glasses, and I will tell the same lies.”
Musk replied, “Deal.”
To this point, Musk solely seems to be joking about buying the liberal information community. Musk has an estimated web value of $348 billion and is the richest particular person on the planet, based on Bloomberg.
It may not 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 much 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 12 months.
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.
