I really believe he had zero interest in buying Twitter, he just wanted to stir the pot for attention and somehow influence politics with his whole freedom of speech secret algorithm nonsense.
Kind of like I really believe the last guy didn’t actually want to be president, he just wanted enough attention to get ratings which he thought would make him money.
And just like Musk it went further than they thought and neither one can or could back down.
Just my opinion which doesn’t mean much.