Elon Musk is the king of trolls — it's time to stop feeding him

There are no good defences of the new Twitter owner’s vile bullying, which forms an integral part of his empire

Like all trolls, Musk sets out to offend and to upset, purely to get the world’s attention. Picture: Yui Mok/PA

Even while hammering out the final details of his $44bn purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk took some time out this weekend to tweet. He likes tweeting, does the world’s richest man, usually from what he calls his “porcelain throne” (that detail disclosed on Twitter, naturally enough). 

This one was a photo of Bill Gates, zeroing in on the 66-year-old’s modest paunch and placing it next to a cartoon of a pregnant man. To that ensemble, Musk added this sentence of supreme wit: “in case u need to lose a boner fast”.