Elon Musk is at his antics again. Unbelievable as it may sound, the $40 million fine and losing the chairmanship of Tesla doesn’t seem to have done much to deter Musk from speaking his mind over Twitter. In fact, he has taken to baiting the SEC directly.
Yes. In a tweet, sent out at 1:16 pm PT Thursday, the Tesla CEO said:
Just want to that the Shortseller Enrichment Commission is doing incredible work. And the name change is so on point!
Just in case there is any confusion, Shortseller Enrichment Commission is a jab at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Musk however, apologized a short while later.
Yes. Not much of an apology. The opposite in fact.
It should be remembered that Twitter is where the flamboyant entrepreneur’s troubles actually started. In what really seemed like a spur of moment thing, Musk tweeted that he was planning to take his company private, and indeed, that he had all but secured funding for the same. This of course, sent the shares soaring.
However, it later came to light that Musk had not shared this information with even the board of directors, and that the ‘secured’ funding, was actually nowhere in sight.
