Elon Musk mocks newest Biden teleprompter gaffe as Twitter deal collapses

Tesla CEO Elon Musk joked about President Joe Biden's newest mishap on the microphone, evaluating the error to a scene from the movie Anchorman.

Biden was talking at a White Home occasion Friday when he unintentionally learn directions off of the teleprompter, saying, "Finish of quote. Repeat the road." Musk in contrast the error to the scene from Anchorman by which Will Ferrell's character, Ron Burgundy, equally reads directions off a teleprompter, resulting in one of many producers on set to warn that "something you placed on that prompter, Burgundy will learn," as seen in a meme he posted to social media.

"Whoever controls the teleprompter is the actual President!" Musk wrote in his social media put up.

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Musk's joke in regards to the president got here on the identical day he advised Twitter that he was terminating his deal to amass the social media platform. In paperwork filed with the Securities and Trade Fee on Friday night, Musk accused Twitter of misrepresenting the variety of spam bots on its platform.

The termination of the deal will price the multibillionaire $1 billion via a reverse termination charge, which Musk should pay with a purpose to exit the deal.

Earlier than the announcement, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal had change into more and more pissed off with Musk and was "being extra aggressive internally," in response to a former Twitter govt, including that it appeared the corporate was "prepared to go to struggle to make this deal occur."