January 27, 2026 07:13 AM EST
Why Two ‘Idiots’—Elon Musk and the CEO of Ryanair—Are Going at It
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All the world’s a stage for Elon Musk and Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary. The rest of us? Mere spectators.
A disagreement between the aerospace company and the the budget airline operator has evolved into a full-blown public beef as the executives—Musk, of SpaceX, and Ryanair’s O’Leary, neither who are strangers to confrontation or shy about making dramatic public comments—have egged each other on in a series of interviews and social media posts.
This round of sparring appears to have started on Jan. 14, when Ryanair said it wouldn’t equip its planes with SpaceX-owned Starlink satellite internet service, citing fuel costs and the lack of demand from customers who take its shorter flights. When a user of X, another Musk-owned company, referenced a Reuters article with O’Leary’s comments, Musk replied, calling the airline CEO “misinformed.”
O’Leary escalated, saying on Irish radio station Newstalk: “I would pay no attention whatsoever to Elon Musk. He’s an idiot—very wealthy, but he’s still an idiot.” Musk responded to a clip of that interview: “Ryanair CEO is an utter idiot,” he said. “Fire him.”
The beef continued to escalate from there. Ryanair used its X account to mock Musk, first over a reported outage on X with the comment, “Perhaps you need Wi-Fi @elonmusk?” Musk responded, saying: “Should I buy Ryan Air and put someone whose actual name is Ryan in charge?”
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January 27, 2026 06:43 AM EST
Stock Futures Mostly Rise on Busy Earnings Day
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Futures contracts connected to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 0.2%.
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S&P 500 futures pointed 0.2% higher.
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Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 0.6%.
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