Prolific tweeter Elon Musk said he is buying British football club Manchester United in a thread joking about his political allegiances.
The Tesla chief executive officer and world’s richest person made the claim in a tweet thread where he stated he supported the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democrats.
Musk has a track record of using Twitter to make jokes and troll the media, who follow what he tweets closely. He has also run afoul of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, most infamously for tweets in 2018 about taking Tesla private. That led to securities fraud charges, and a settlement that included appointing a “Twitter sitter” to approve Musk’s Tesla-related tweets.
