Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and other startups, has provided an explanation for his bizarre tweets that have gotten him into trouble with regulators, customers, and competitors.

Elon Musk’s Reason for Bad Tweets

During Musk's controversial Saturday Night Live appearance, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX admitted to posting strange things online, saying it's how his brain is hardwired.

He opened the show by claiming he was "the first person with Asperger's to host SNL." Which appears to be the first time Musk has revealed he has Asperger's. He went onto say:

Look, I know I sometimes say or post strange things, but that’s just how my brain works. To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say I reinvented electric cars, and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?

People with Asperger's tend to see the world around them slightly differently than the rest of us. Which could explain why Musk often comes across as rather eccentric, especially on social media.

After all, Musk changed his job title to the "Technoking of Tesla" in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

And there are plenty of examples of Musk tweeting some inappropriate, or oftentimes downright offensive, things...

The Most Bizarre Musk Tweets

In April 2020, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic when the US was reporting more than 20,000 new daily cases, the Tesla chief demanded that the government reopen the economy and "FREE AMERICA NOW."

Musk also caused quite a turmoil with a thinly-veiled threat in another tweet in which he announced that workers who unionized would lose their company-paid stock options. The National Labor Relations Board was unsympathetic, ordering Musk to delete that one.

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Offending British cave explorer Vernon Unsworth by calling him a "pedo guy" in front of his millions of Twitter followers definitely isn't one of Musk's finest moments either.

"Funding Secured"

However, the most famous Elon Musk tweet of all has got to be a 2018 post in which he announced taking Tesla private at $420/share. Shares of Tesla tumbled following the "funding secured."

It was this tweet in particular that prompted the US Securities and Exchange Commission to sue Musk in federal court, charging the technology entrepreneur with committing securities fraud by manipulating stock prices with tweets. All in all, the "funding secured" tweet cost Musk $20 million and his position as Tesla's chairman of the board.

So, whether it's due to his Asperger's or something else entirely, Elon Musk should probably hire someone to manage his social media accounts for him.