the social media legion of doom. former president donald trump, who was suspended from facebook and twitter after, of course, he insighted that deadly capital insurrection, he has truth social. and elon musk will likely soon own twitter, twitter, where well before offering to buy it, musk has been an active user, with 109 million followers. musk has posted quite a few controversial tweets. the one i can t get out of my head has to do with this man. vernon uns worth. vernon helped save 12 boys in thailand after they were stranded inside a flooded cave for weeks on end. he is such a hero, he s depicted in ron howard s new movie 13 lives about that incredible rescue. 12 boys and their coach are trapped in the flooded cave. hello? hey. they re here.
one of 330 million americans who are entitled to his opinions about russia, like any of us are. the difference here, as kara is pointing out, is there is 108. 5 million people who hang on his every word. you get the sense, there is not, really, any sort of reckoning with the public responsibility, that comes with that many followers. i will subscribe to the idea that elon musk, genuinely, think this. he has gone against the blog, so to speak, in every industry. whether that s manufacturing, cars, space travel, and now, this is the capital be blob. the foreign policy blob, that elon musk disagrees with. the difference, of course, is elon musk has been an entrepreneur for 25 years, elon musk knows a lot about cars, and space travel, and you get the sense that elon read a few babylon bee articles, and talked to some friends of his, and is already firing off twitter polls to his 109 million
babylon bee articles, and talk to some friends of his, and is already firing off twitter polls to his 109 million people. i am not a believer that elon musk cannot have an opinion here, but, this is not bill clinton going to north korea. this is more akin to dennis rodman. it is a private individual, with a big responsibility, and you wonder whether or not he s fully grappling with that in its enormity. do we need to remind our audience of that? there are questions out there saying, is this legal, is he influencing foreign policy? elon musk is not a government official. he is not of diplomat. he can weigh in on anything he wants, just like we can spout off on twitter about tv shows, politics, anything. he is more influential. look at those numbers. he does influence people. someone was saying, he should be more responsible, and my answer was i m not his mom. i don t know what to say. he s just not. he does it all the time, with lots of things.
went after them. but how is this brand up? no, this is brand down. huge brand down. talk about the tampa bay rays. that is what they tweeted out after the horrible shooting. the raies are mourning the lives of and we all know if nothing changes, nothing changes. based on that tweet, they were supposed to get a 39 million practice facility in the budget, his $109 million florida budget, he took it out at the last minute. bases on that tweet. there is nothing in there that is even overtly political. there is a fascist dictator in florida right now. is it working? i think it is going to backfire. brand up. lebron james. yeah. i sometimes, as much criticism as he gets, i think he s in the news is because he s the first active nba player to be a billionaire. michael jordan and kobe became billions after they played. and he has $300 million in
after an hour of sitting at the delta counter we were able to find an alternative flight which has a connecting flight so it will take six hours to get home instead of three. at this point if he could just get home that s a win. as far as the roadway years highways are still a mess aaa and estimated 109 million people traveled with road travel being the number one choice over 100 million people hitting the road and 6 million took to the skies, 3 million booking buses, trains and cruises. at this point most airlines that we checked in with today have said the trying their best to alert people before they head to the airport with all of the covid callouts that they have been having in warning people not to come to the airport if they don t have a flight. laura ingle from new york, thank you very much.