Elon Musk Says Bob Iger, the Disney CEO He Publicly Instructed to “Fuck Your self,” Ought to Be “Fired Instantly”

Final month, throughout an interview at The New York Occasions’ DealBook summit, X proprietor Elon Musk declared that the advertisers who’d boycotted the platform in response to his endorsement of a wildly antisemitic put up may go to hell. “Don’t promote,” he mentioned earlier than happening to particularly goal Disney CEO Bob Iger. “If somebody goes to attempt to blackmail me with promoting? Blackmail me with cash? Go fuck your self. Go fuck your self, is that clear? Hey, Bob, in case you’re within the viewers. That’s how I really feel, don’t promote.” Every week and alter later, (maybe with the advantage of hindsight and possibly even a mild reminder from shareholders that his job shouldn’t be, in reality, to tank the corporate), has Musk determined to make good with the businesses upon whom X depends on income to outlive? Not precisely!

As a substitute, on Thursday morning, he declared on X that Iger ought to be “fired instantly” and that “Walt Disney is popping in his grave over what Bob has completed to his firm.”

In November, Disney, together with IBM, Apple and others, pulled their promoting on X after Musk wrote, “You have got mentioned the precise fact” in response to a put up accusing “Jewish communities“ of “pushing the precise sort of dialectical hatred towards whites that they declare to need individuals to cease utilizing towards them.” Musk later apologized, saying, “It could be actually the worst and dumbest put up I’ve ever completed,” but curiously, it remained on the location as of Friday:

Musk purchased Twitter in October 2022, and below his tutelage the corporate has gone from a valuation of $44 billion to $19 billion (he additionally, for some motive, modified the title to X). On the DealBook convention, after telling Iger and firm to “fuck your self,” Musk mentioned: “If the corporate fails due to an advertiser boycott, it would fail due to an advertiser boycott. And that will probably be what bankrupt the corporate, and that’s what all people on earth will know…. Let the chips fall the place they might.”