Musk denied that Donald Trump encouraged him to buy the company.

Elon Musk arrives at the 2022 Met Gala.

The Met Gala will be held in New York on May 2, 2022. The photo was taken by ANGELA WEISS.

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An article in the New York Post said that Trump encouraged Musk to take over the social media platform.

In an interview with Fox Business Network, the congressman said that Trump wanted to buy the social network before Musk bought it.

The goal of Truth Social was to build a community where people are in a family-friendly, safe environment, and that they encouraged Musk to buy Twitter because someone has to.

In a reply to the Post article, Musk said that he has had no communication, directly or indirectly, with Trump, and that the former president has publicly stated that he will not return to Twitter.

Musk offered to buy the entire company for $44 billion after acquiring a 9.2% stake in the company. The company's board initially tried to block the offer, but later accepted after Musk disclosed he had $46.5 billion in financing. The site has struggled to take off, despite Trump announcing he would launch his own site in October. The site was supposed to be fully operational by the end of March, but millions were stuck on the public wait list in April. Trump wrote his second post on the app in the days after Musk's deal was accepted.

Musk has recently taken aim at Trump over Truth Social, writing that his platform has a terrible name, and that it only exists because of the censorship of free speech.

Big Number

91.2 million. That's how many people are following Musk on social media.

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Despite the goal to be fully operational by March 31, Trump's truth social still Plagued with glitch.

The company accepted the $44 billion deal from Musk.