"I'm making history because I'm the first person with Asperger's to run the show. Or, at least, the first to admit it."
This is how Elon Musk introduced himself to the viewers of Saturday Night Live, the cult comedy show on American TV of which he was the most awaited guest of recent times and the richest ever, with a fortune estimated at 177 billion dollars.
In his opening monologue, the eccentric tech entrepreneur co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX offered an explanation for some of his past behaviors that have stunned many people. "I know I say or post weird things, but that's how my brain works. To anyone who has offended I just want to say that I take people to Mars," he said.
He then joked about his tweets, his son's unusual name - X Æ A-12 - and the time he smoked a joint on a podcast. Then, being a big proponent of cryptocurrencies, he once again enumerated the advantages of dogecoin by defining the cryptocurrency - which now has a market value of around $ 72 billion - "an unstoppable vehicle that will conquer the world" although he later admitted. that creates "confusion".