Talking heads on BloombergTV have been saying most of this week that it has been looking like Wall Street is saying that Mr Musk's Twitter deal is having a decreasing likelihood of going through. The main evidence of that is the spread in current stock price of Twitter vs what Mr Musk is bidding.

All this raises an interesting question --- at what point do Mr Musk's actions vs Twitter become stock price manipulation?

Is he just playing these games with Twitter because hie thinks his initial bid was too high, and he now wants a lower price?

Another view..

One aspect of this whole Musk/Twitter thing that I find most interesting is...

Fmr Pres Trump campaigned, among other things, upon being against Wall Street. (yet, his White House seemed to become "Wall Street South"... but I digress...)

OK, that's understandable, he wanted to be seen as very favorable towards the mom&pop investor, and against the mega-wealth of Wall Street.

And his supporters bought that. Big time.

Fast forward to the present...

Trump supporters seem to be supporting one Elon Musk in his weird dance (I'm being kind) to acquire Twitter.

Yet those very same Trump supporters seem to be ignoring that Mr Musk may have violated securities laws that were put into place to protect mom&pop investors from the evils of the wealthy corporate world.

So... how is that apparent contraction explained?

Why are the Trump supporters apparently so willing now to be in favor of the abuses of Wall Street that they were so opposed to during the election cycle that put fmr Pres Trump into power?

Is it fealty to a person over and above the rule of law?

Anyone?

@#6 ... I'm not surprised Trump fans embrace Musk. The two have a lot on common. ...

Yes and no.

Yes there is a lot in common in an apparent lawlessness.

But no, there is little in common regarding what fmr Pres Trump campaigned upon regarding the evils of Wall Street.

The latter is what is most curious for me.

Why do Trump supporters seems to be so in favor of the machinations of Wall Street nowadays regarding Mr Musk, when they were recruited for the Trump campaign on the platform of being against Wall Street?

What in the world is going on here?

@#9 ... it's complicated. and absurd ...

Campaign lies are usually complicated, that makes it easier to deny them.

But absurd?

I disagree.

I think that the campaign lies were not absurd, but quite calculated.

Why else would the Trump 2016 campaign rail against Wall Street, yet subsequently support Wall Street most enthusiastically? Of course, that begs the question, was there some manner of agreement beforehand of what was going to be said?

Why else would Trump supporters be most enthusiastic in their apparent support of Mr Musk in all he does?