Will the Very Pale Elon Musk Buy Twitter or Not?

BUCK: I don’t know if the audience knows this — as a side hustle, as a world class analyst of Twitter stock, Clay gives me the running analysis on stock’s up, stock’s up, you know, five dollars today, Buck. So he’s following this very closely, which is on my mind right now because there just came down the breaking news here is that a court has fast ruled to fast track the Twitter v. Musk trial.

Now, Clay, other than the fact that I think you could definitely throw on some French cuffs Gordon Gekko style and be a great broker — did you ever see Wall Street, by the way?

CLAY: Oh, yeah, of course.

BUCK: One of the best eighties — I think it’s top 10 all time eighties movies. I even put it in my top 10 overall.

CLAY: Michael Douglas’ best role ever?

BUCK: Yes.

CLAY: I think so.

BUCK: Gordon Gekko — which is funny ’cause Oliver Stone talked later about how he made a movie with Gekko as the villain and then everybody wanted to go work on Wall Street and be like Gordon Gekko. Greed is good, apparently.

Oh, another thing about Elon Musk is this thing where you have Elon just at the beach, he’s just trying to hang out, he’s got like nine kids or something, right? He’s got a little bit of a dad bod. I got a dad bod. We got some dad bods out there. No big deal. Apparently, you better — you better take some — take some HGH and spend a few months at the gym and do a little tanning before you let anyone take a photo of you. Elon’s getting crushed right now for his dad bod situation, which I think is unfair. The man is a genius.

CLAY: They also have pictures out of Alec Baldwin. I mean, we’re at the point now where if you’re fairly famous and you go to the beach, somebody’s getting a photo of you topless. And so I was looking at the Elon Musk one; he would look a lot better if he were tan. He might be the palest human on the planet. I’m not sure that Elon Musk has been shirtless outdoors based on this photo in 15 years. I know he’s a billionaire, but he might have to spend a million on sunscreen, ’cause this is the ripest for a sunburn pale, ghostly figure that I have seen in a long time.

BUCK: So,here’s the thing about the Twitter situation that I — you and I both find really interesting. When Elon Musk announced that he was — and the closest thing that we have to a digital town square is Twitter, meaning it’s — the only place where psycho libs don’t follow me on Facebook.

Psycho libs don’t interact with people on the right except on Twitter, really. There’s no more debates on TV. So it is important tore political discourse. Elon says he’s gonna buy Twitter, Clay, and the libs, they freak out.

I mean, you’re seeing on TikTok ,if you’re a Biden voter with face tattoos, blue hair, and a few too many cats who works at Twitter, you were crying when Elon said he was gonna buy it. And now Twitter is suing to make he buy them, and I don’t see any of the crying TikTok videos anymore. What happened?

CLAY: Yeah. So this is a wild story that there aren’t a lot precedents for. So Twitter, for people out there who don’t remember, Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20. The stock price went up close to that stock, right, $50 and change, and then it plummeted. And on Friday, I guess it was like 10 days ago, wasn’t even that long ago, Elon Musk came out — not this past Friday, right, but the Friday before — and said, “Hey, I’m not going to buy Twitter.” And the stock price fell all the way to $32 basically and a half, way below the 54.20 that he was gonna pay.

Well, since then there’s been a steady buying going on. The stock price is now back above $40 during the course of trading today, and there was just a major ruling that came down as we are on air. And I’m reading from the Wall Street Journal.

The Delaware judge has agreed that there is going to be an expedited trial in this case. And I’m reading directly. “A Delaware judge approved a motion to expedite Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk. Twitter is trying to force Elon Musk to comply with the terms of this purchase agreement.” And they are now going to have a trial that will decide whether Elon Musk has to purchase this company or not. Buck, my prediction — I tweeted this out almost immediately — is that they’re ultimately going to settle for a bit lower price.

But now people are betting that Elon Musk is going to be forced to buy Twitter after initially everybody wanted him not to be allowed to buy it. Now they want the courts to force him to buy it. It’s pretty wild.

BUCK: I think he’s just gonna pay a penalty and a break-up fee. I don’t think he’s gonna end up owning it, which we’ll see. By the way, the Hunter Biden prosecution clock is ticking there, Mr. Clay Travis. —

CLAY: I have all my money in Twitter so I can afford to take you out for a steak dinner.

BUCK: There we go. At least Twitter’s on the rise.