Neil Freiman
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It shows that the progressive wing and President Trump have similar populist economic policies.
Yeah, it looks like Lisa Cook will keep her job for now.
Moving on to more prosaic matters.
We've got a good old CEO beef.
The corporate bosses in question, Elon Musk and Michael O'Leary, the Irishman who leads Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline.
These two started going at it last week when O'Leary said that his airline would not install Elon Starlink Wi-Fi on its fleet of planes because the antenna you need to beam Wi-Fi to passengers will
would increase drag and cost Ryanair an extra $250 million in fuel costs a year.
Elon could not let this go, saying O'Leary was misinformed.
Then O'Leary went all in, saying that Musk knows nothing about flight or drag and called his ex-platform a cesspit.
The floodgates were open.
Musk called O'Leary an utter idiot and urged for his firing.
After a few more barbs of each of these guys calling each other idiots, Musk polled his Twitter followers whether he should buy Ryanair so that he could sack O'Leary.
TBD on whether a takeover offer will come.
Toby, we're talking about two of the most outspoken brash CEOs in the game right now, Elon and O'Leary, who once floated the idea of selling standing seats on his planes.
Their social media spat may seem a little silly, but ever the marketer, O'Leary has managed to turn this free publicity into business gold.
They're offering 100,000 seats at about $20 a pop.
And in the same press conference, he said that bookings have risen 2% to 3% in the aftermath of
of the social media spat between he and Elon Musk.
So he said, O'Leary said, I'm very happy to continue the controversy.
If it helps to boost Ryanair sales, you can insult me all day, any day.