Elon Musk toys with Twitter board amid legal threats – on Twitter

Elon Musk doesn’t seem concerned over Twitter’s vow to force him to follow through on his offer to buy the company. He withdrew his offer on Friday.

The billionaire businessman was relatively quiet after the social media platform’s board of directors said in a statement shortly before the weekend that it would “pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement” he put into play with a $44 billion proposal in April. He reneged on that offer Friday after alleging the company has fewer users than it claims.

But on Monday, Musk used Twitter to toy with the company in its own house.

The world’s richest man first posted still photos of himself laughing while the drama, as he sees it, has played out. According to Musk’s meme, Twitter’s shareholders didn’t want him to buy the company, then refused to release accurate information about how many of its supposed users are bots. That strip then shows Musk laughing harder at the idea Twitter is now suing him to consummate the deal, which he says, will force the company to reveal the information he wanted in the first place.

Elon Musk (SUZANNE CORDEIRO/)

He followed that posting with a photo of martial arts expert Chuck Norris seated behind a chess board where he has only one piece left to play.

“Chuck mate,” reads that photo’s caption.

Musk, a notorious Twitter troll, got both positive and negative reactions on Twitter, where he has more than a million followers. One critic photoshopped Musk’s face onto the Norris photo, implying the 51-year-old entrepreneur had played himself into a corner. Another social media user appreciated the fact Musk was using Twitter to antagonize the company that runs it.

Elon Musk's Twitter page. (CHRIS DELMAS/)

Twitter reportedly contracted New York-based law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to handle its case against Musk over the weekend. He is worth more than $226 billion, according to Forbes. Musk disclosed in April he’d purchased more than 9% of the company’s stock. That stock dropped nearly 9% Monday.

Former President Donald Trump called Musk a “bulls--t artist” during a speech in Alaska Saturday. Trump launched a social media platform in February to compete with Twitter. The 45th president was banned from Twitter following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol where his supporters disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election.