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Imagine being the world’s richest person for a second.

Feels good, doesn’t it?

Back in the real world, Elon Musk – worth a cool $221,2 billion – isn’t satisfied with being at the helm of Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company,  Neuralink, and other companies.

Next in line is Twitter and we may be nearing the end of a long and very protracted $44 billion acquisition. Friday is the deadline for the deal to be concluded.

I guess you have to allow Musk to crack dad jokes given that he seems determined to singlehandedly ensure that population growth remains constant.

Here’s the joke set-up via ABC:

Musk has posted a video of him strolling into Twitter headquarters carrying a sink…

Mr Musk has also changed his Twitter profile to refer to himself as “Chief Twit” and his location as Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.

He has previously questioned whether the building should be closed and converted into a homeless shelter because, he says, so few employees are coming into the office under the company’s remote-work policy.

Apparently, he doesn’t understand that people can get work done from home.

Enter the sink:

Meeting a lot of cool people at Twitter today!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2022

Musk has no doubt seen this meme, floating around in Twitter reply sections for years:

Multiple people familiar with the matter say that @elonmusk brought a sink into Twitter as part of a ruse to bring this meme to life: pic.twitter.com/Q5hljVCtkC

— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) October 26, 2022

Read the replies to any Musk tweet and you’re guaranteed to find the Musk bros posting stuff like this:

Congratulations!!! [CHIRPBIRDICON] [CHIRPBIRDICON] [CHIRPBIRDICON] pic.twitter.com/hACJgbZzky

— – Tesla AI, Texas (@BogusThought) October 26, 2022

He’s not going to hold you close and whisper sweet nothings into your ear, man. Give it a rest.

Is the deal in the bag? Depends on who you ask:

Robert Anderson, a law professor at Pepperdine University, said he expected the deal to close by Friday’s deadline but he did not make much of the video.

“I think he’s just visiting the headquarters, and I don’t see anything unusual about it, other than that he brought a sink,” he said.

And people say lawyers don’t have a sense of humour.

On the other side of the spectrum, Sky News reports the wheels are in motion:

The banks involved in the takeover have finished putting together the final credit agreement and are in the process of signing the documentation…

A number of banks, including Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, have committed $13bn in debt financing to support the deal.

Other potential investors include Oracle Corp co-founder Larry Ellison and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Musk initially agreed to buy Twitter at a share price of $54,20 (420 – get it?), but the share price is currently $53,32.

[sources:abc&sky]