Sports analyst Colin Cowherd became a victim of a viral fake Travis Kelce tweet earlier this week.
A social media account posing as the Kansas City Chiefs star posted a message hitting back at Elon Musk on the billionaire’s own site, X, after he shared a creepy response to Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris this week.
Just hours after the pop superstar, who has been dating the NFL player for over a year, endorsed the Vice President in an Instagram statement, Musk bizarrely offered to give her a child.
Shortly after Musk’s tweet went viral, screenshots of a response allegedly from the Super Bowl winner also began making the rounds.
‘I’m 6’5′ and actually play football. The fact I went to college and got a degree and worked hard might be lost on you. I don’t play backgammon but I do play chess. I could also twist you into a pretzel,’ the post read.
However, the fraudulent threat was quickly debunked by social media users, who identified it as a screenshot of an old tweet by an MLB fan that has been edited and used by other imposters multiple times on X.
But while social media sleuths easily identified the fake, Cowherd wasn’t as astute.
Cowherd cited the tweet on his show this week, discussing the Chiefs star and Tesla founder’s alleged online feud.
‘I saw yesterday, Elon Musk and Travis Kelce going at it. Travis Kelce taking a shot at Elon Musk on X,’ the analyst said on his FS1 show, ‘The Herd.’
Musk raised eyebrows when he reacted to Swift’s dramatic endorsement of Harris for US president.
The singer made the announcement on Instagram following last night’s debate and signed off her endorsement ‘Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady’ – in a dig at Donald’s Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance .
However less than two hours later, father-of-twelve Musk, who has also spoken out against underpopulation in the past, penned a bizarre proposal to Ms Swift.
The Tesla boss wrote on X: ‘Fine Taylor … you win…I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.’
Colin Cowherd got duped by the fake tweet of Travis Kelce replying to Elon Musk. https://t.co/sXC5vJjnRR pic.twitter.com/C9vQCQL9Vd
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The real Kelce has remained silent on the SpaceX chief’s disturbing offer to his songstress girlfriend but others have jumped to the ‘Fortnight’ singer’s defense online.
Rapper Azealia Banks has inserted herself into the drama by publicly encouraging Swift — who, like Musk, is a billionaire — to ‘sue him for loads of cash.’
‘Nah this is actual sexual harassment,’ the rapper tweeted out Thursday. ‘Taylor should flex on his a** and sue him for loads of cash n level up to be the most undefeatable richest woman in the history of music.
‘Take his f***ing money taylorrrrrrr!!!!’
Banks continued her rant in two follow-up tweets as she marveled at the thought of Swift taking a huge chunk out of Musk’s $250billion net worth.
‘Put his a** in a hole sis. Lmao the pop girlies would all be so crumb. I love this,’ she wrote.
Banks then brought Kanye West — Swift’s biggest rival — into the mix by speculating that he’d ‘have a heart attack’ if Swift successfully took down Musk.
‘lmao the heart attack kanye will have when she is ULTRA -UNREACHABLE levels of WEALTHY of his daddy elon’s back bwahahahaha.’
She concluded with: ‘CUCK THEM ALL SIS’
Musk’s post shocked even one of his most ardent supporters, Ian Miles Cheong, who responded: ‘My God.’
In her lengthy Instagram post, Taylor vowed that she ‘makes sure to watch and read everything she can’ about Trump and Harris’ ‘proposed policies and plans for this country.’
She said she planned to vote for Kamala because she believed the 59-year-old ‘fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.’
She also praised Kamala’s running mate Tim Walz for ‘standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman’s right to her own body for decades.’
