By New York Post (Politics) | Created at 2024-11-24 14:46:31 | Updated at 2024-11-24 17:33:33
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He wants to take the company private — very private.
Space and electric car tycoon Elon Musk shared a bawdy meme on his X platform that joked about tapping into his deep pockets to purchase MSNBC following the bombshell news that Comcast planned to spin off the lefty cable network.
“And lead us not into temptation …,” Musk, 53, wrote in the X post accompanied by a meme showing what appears to be a priest struggling to remain pure next to a woman exposing herself.
In the racy meme, the priest is overlayed with the text “Elon Musk trying not to buy” while an MSNBC logo was placed over the woman’s bottom.
Almost exactly two years ago, Musk dusted off the same meme, with different text, to poke fun at President-elect Donald Trump’s temptations to return to Twitter (which has since been rebranded to X).
The tech billionaire has a penchant for posting memes that push the envelope. X / @elonmuskOver recent days, the billionaire and serial meme poster has bantered about purchasing the cable news platform and overhauling it.
MSNBC’s parent company Comcast — the parent company of NBC — has been eyeing plans to spin off nearly all of its cable channels into a company dubbed SpinCo. Other channels in the group include CNBC, Oxygen, E!, Syfy and the Golf Channel.
Critics of the cable news network have seized on the development to pose questions about MSNBC’s future in light of the dramatic shift and internally workers at the channel have been gripped by anxiety.
“Everyone is in a panic because everything is up in the air,” one MSNBC source previously told The Post.
MSNBC is home to liberal darlings such as Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid and Lawrence O’Donnell.
Amid the upheaval, soon-to-be first son Donald Trump Jr. joked that Musk should purchase MSNBC.
“Hey @elonmusk, I have the funniest idea ever!!!” the Trump scion wrote on X in response to another post suggesting that MSNBC would be up for sale.
“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.”
Thus far, Musk only appears to be joking about purchasing the liberal news network. Musk has an estimated net worth of $348 billion and is the richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg.
It might not all be fun and games, though. The tech mogul also joked about purchasing Twitter (now X) for years before he actually pulled the trigger.
“How much is it?” he asked in 2017 on the platform.
Elon Musk has courted President-elect Donald Trump while hoping to help overhaul the federal government. Getty ImagesUltimately, Musk purchased the platform in 2022 for $44 billion in a deal that wrapped up in October of that year.
Musk has grown increasingly political over recent years and has spent ample time in the wake of the Nov. 5 presidential election at Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump, 78, and the incoming president’s allies.
The Post contacted an MSNBC rep for comment.
