In his response to a Tweet comment, he wrote: “No, this is a long running Twitter joke. I don’t buy any sports teams.” He added: “Although, if it was any team, it would be Man U. They were my favorite team as a kid. “And I’m not buying Coca-Cola to bring back cocaine, despite the extreme popularity of such a move.” In the same original post about Manchester United he joked about his own political views, having recently voted for a Republican candidate for the first time. He wrote: “To be clear, I support the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party!” Musk said in May that he had voted Democratic in the past but that his future votes would be Republican. He frequently comments on politics, saying earlier this summer that he was leaning toward endorsing Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis for president in 2024 and that Donald Trump was too old to serve as president again. The world’s richest man has a history of using Twitter to make bold statements – some of which he later dismisses as jokes. Musk is currently trying to close a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter that he has pulled out of. It was revealed last week that he had sold almost US$7bn (£5.8bn) of Tesla shares ahead of a legal battle, which is scheduled for October.
