Elon Musk teases purchase of more iconic American companies

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In the wake of his announcement last week that he would be purchasing Twitter for over $40 billion, tech billionaire Elon Musk took to the social media platform will soon own to joke about other iconic companies he could purchase and improve.

At least… we think he’s joking.

It all started Wednesday night with a tweet from Musk that read, “Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in.”

When another Twitter user responded with, “Bring it back,” and posted a picture of the first bottle of Coca-Cola from 1894, noting it did indeed contain 3.5 grams of cocaine, Musk jumped back into the thread to reply that Coca-Cola with cocaine “kicks Red Bull’s ass!”

When a tweet asked Musk to purchase the FOX television network in order to reinstate the cult-classic series “Firefly,” Musk responded again, tweeting, “Some sci-fi that actually features sci-fi would be great.”

Musk did appear to acknowledge that even he has limitations though.

After initially resharing a photoshopped image that shows Musk appearing to declare, “Now I'm going to buy McDonald's and fix all of the ice cream machines,” he seems to have rethought that idea.

“Listen, I can't do miracles ok,” Musk would later tweet regarding that possibility.

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