Stop in Cleveland? City makes its way into Elon Musk joke on The Tonight Show – cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio Cleveland wound its way into a gag on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night.

Well, guys, heres some really sad news, the host said in his monologue. I read that in the past few days Elon Musks net worth dropped below $200 billion. Thats right, Elon Musk is no longer worth over $200 billion. Now when he flies to space he has to connect in Cleveland.

Elon was shocked he lost billions, then went back to his latest project - teaching Teslas how to mamba.

Musk is, of course, the maverick financier-entrepreneur behind the electric Tesla cars and is the force behind SpaceX, which promotes civilian space flights and colonization of Mars.

The Wall Street Journal reported this week the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Musk on suspicion of insider trading. Teslas stock has fallen about 33% since Musk began selling billions of dollars worth of shares on Nov. 8 after he Tweeted a poll asking if he should sell 10% of his stock in the carmaker. Musks brother, Kimbal Musk, sold $108 million worth of shares in the company right before the poll was issued.

Wednesday, Teslas stock closed at $764.04 on Nasdaq before rising to $800.77 on Thursday.

Kimbal Musk co-founded The Kitchen Restaurant Group, which operated the now-closed restaurant Next Door, which was located in the Pinecrest development in Orange Village.

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