Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy revealed the United States government reached out to him about a position within its ranks.
Portnoy described the call he got from someone within the government as « weird » in a video posted to his X account.
He said he mentioned the call he got during an appearance with Fox News’ and Fox Business’ Stuart Varney but « nobody paid attention. »
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But while he didn’t have interest in the job, he did find one big requirement to be quite odd.
« I got a call, I don’t know, a couple months ago? I don’t know when I got the call, » Portnoy explained. « It was like, ‘Hey, would you have any interest, Dave, in joining the Department of Commerce – commerce secretary under [Howard] Lutnick, or the guy working under him.’
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« But a caveat of joining the government is somebody would have to run Barstool. You can’t run Barstool and work for the government. I guess Elon [Musk] doesn’t have a specific title, but you kinda want your CEO with the eye on the ball, right? »
Before explaining the call, Portnoy raised a question about Musk’s work as CEO of Tesla while also carrying out his duties with DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency, during the Trump administration.
« The one thing I do wonder with Elon, he’s the CEO of Tesla, obviously, and he’s doing all this DOGE stuff, which I think is good, » Portnoy said. « Get rid of government waste, I’m for that. But how do you run Tesla when you’re working on DOGE 24/7? »
Going back to the call he received, Portnoy said it was nothing more than that.
« By the way, even if I wanted to do that, they never followed up, » he said. « They were like, ‘Let us know if you could find somebody to run Barstool and you’re interested in it. If you are interested, we’ll schedule a call in a week for the next steps.’ That never happened, so it was weird. »
Portnoy appears to have no interest not being able to run Barstool Sports, which he founded in 2003 and built into a highly successful media brand.
Meanwhile, as of March 3, DOGE has claimed to save $105 billion since Musk & Co. explored lease terminations, contract cancellations and more.
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Publish date : 2025-03-11 22:55:00
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