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.”
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.’
“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?” More here