Elon Musk to Advertisers Trying to Blackmail Him: ‘Go. F*ck. Yourself.’

Elon: Stop...Don't advertise.

SORKIN: You don't want them to advertise?

MUSK: No.

Sorkin: What do you mean?

MUSK: If somebody is trying to blackmail me with advertising. Go F*** Yourself. Go. F***. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is. Hey mom! She's here in the audience.

SORKIN: Let me ask you then....

MUCK: That's how I feel, don't advertise.

SORKIN: How do you feel about the economics of X. If part of the underlying model, at least today, and maybe it needs to shift. Maybe the answer is it needs to shift away from advertising. If you believe this is the one part of your business that you would be beholden to those who have this view. What do you do?

MUSK: F. Y.

SORKIN: I understand, but there is a reality too.

MUSK: Yes, No, I know-

SORKIN: I mean, Linda Yaccarino is sitting right here and she's gotta sell advertising.

MUSK: Totally. Actually what this advertising boycott is going to do, it's going to kill the company.

SORKIN: And you think that-

MUSK: And the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company. It will be documented in great detail.

SORKIN: But those advertisers are, I'd imagine, would say "we didn't kill the company-

MUSK: Oh yeah? Tell it to earth.

SORKIN: But they're gonna say, Elon, that you killed the company because you said these things and they were inappropriate things and that they didn't feel comfortable on the platform.

MUSK: And let's see how earth responds to that.