The world's wealthiest man is getting a lot of attention today as he limbers up to take over the world's biggest social media platform. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla has struck a deal to purchase Twitter for $43 billion left the world wanting to know more about him.
In 2021 he appeared as guest host on American entertainment show, Saturday Night Live, and while there revealed some personal things about himself in his opening monologue. For anyone unfamiliar with the format of the show, the Saturday Night Live monologue is traditionally where the guest-host stands before the audience at the start and gives themselves a bit of a comedy-roast, making jokes at their own expense and getting the audience on side.
In Elon's monologue he revealed his ambitions for the future saying: "I'm making history tonight as the first person with Asperger's to host SNL." He continued: "So I won't make a lot of eye contact. But don't worry, I'm pretty good at running 'human' in emulation mode." This gag got a big laugh from the audience who warmed to Elon's slightly awkward demeanour. His monologue continued: "I'd like to share with you my vision for the future. I believe in a renewable energy future, and I believe that humanity must become a multi-planetary space faring civilisation, those seem like exciting goals don't they?"
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He then made a reference to Twitter, which he's just purchased for $43 billion, saying: "I think if I just posted that on Twitter, I'd be fine. But I also write things like '69 days later 4/20 again. Haha'." The SNL audience let out a big laugh at the randomness of this tweet to which Elon says: "I don't know, I thought it was funny, that's why I wrote 'haha' at the end." More laughter from the audience.
He goes on to say: "To anyone I've offended, I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was going to be a chill, normal dude?"
The CEO of Tesla yesterday (April 25) made an agreement to purchase the social media platform, Twitter for $43 billion dollars. In a joint statement with Twitter he said: “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” Elon Musk has previously described himself as a “free-speech absolutist” is in renowned on Twitter for blocking users who disagree with him.
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