Will Elon Musk Buy MSNBC? Donald Trump Jr. Floats ‘Funniest Idea’ [Video]

Comcast’s corporate reorganization will move cable news channels CNBC and MSNBC, along with other TV brands, into a new company tentatively named SpinCo, sparking speculation about their future.

After the announcement, some users on X, formerly Twitter, speculated that the reorganization signaled MSNBC was up for sale. Among them was Donald Trump Jr., son of President-elect Donald Trump.

On Friday, Trump Jr. jokingly suggested that Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a Trump surrogate, buy the progressive network, calling it the “funniest idea.”

Musk joined the conversation, asking, “How much?”—a reference to his 2017 tweet when he asked the same question about buying Twitter, five years before acquiring the platform for $44 billion.

Trump Jr. continued the conversation by mocking MSNBC’s value, posting, “I mean it can’t be much. Look at the ratings.”

Newsweek reached out to Musk’s communications team for comment on Friday.

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