Hours after mega-billionaire Elon Musk revealed his potential purchase of the social network giant Twitter is “temporarily on hold,” President Donald Trump took things a little bit further. In a post on his own social networks platform, Truth Social, Trump made a strong forecast about the future of Musk’s Twittre offer.
And according to Trump, “temporarily on hold,” really indicates the $44 billion offer is off totally.
“There is no way Elon Musk is going to buy Twitter at such a ridiculous price, especially since realizing it is a company largely based on BOTS or Spam Accounts,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday, which was published on Twitter by conservative commentator Benny Johnson.
“Fake anyone? By the time you get rid of them, if that can even be done, what do you have? Not much.”
BREAKING: Donald Trump weighs in on @ElonMusk’s Twitter bid pic.twitter.com/pZ4b34NSzB
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 13, 2022
Trump was reacting to an early-morning Twitter post Musk published Friday announcing Friday revealing the prepared purchase is “on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users.”
Musk followed his own post within hours with another stating that he is “still committed to the acquisition.”
Still committed to acquisition
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022
Trump wasn’t so sure.
The previous president certainly has a twisted history with Twitter. His effective 2016 project amazed using the social networks platform by a political leader who was hated by the tradition media.
Thanks in big part to his substantial Twitter existence, Trump had the ability to discuss the heads of the mainstream media– and frustrating media predisposition– to manage a huge upset over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
After the 2020 governmental election and the Capitol attack of Jan. 6, 2021, Twitter completely prohibited Trump even prior to his term in office ended–a ban Musk has indicated will end if his purchase is completed.
Trump, nevertheless, has already introduced his own Truth Social and has said he’s not interested in returning.
His forecast about what Musk will really do with the Twitter purchase has actually to be seen in the light of not just a political leader with an eager grasp of the powers of social media, but likewise as the declaration of a man who is essentially a business competitor.
There’s no doubt that Musk is among the most significant organization names on the planet today– as CEO of the electrical cars and truck producer Tesla and the personal area flight business SpaceX, he remained in the headings long prior to his suggested Twitter purchase began controlling news cycles.
The proposed Twitter offer has actually been through some twists given that it really starts, beginning with Twitter’s board of directors withstanding the relocation, so it’s never ever been a sure thing. And Musk’s Friday tweet is just the current advancement in a case that has the political world enjoying.
No matter how the Twitter purchase concludes, there’s no doubt that Trump has actually made a vibrant contact with a story that alters every day. Whether it shows severely incorrect or prescient is something most likely, not even Elon Musk knows for sure.
