In the media business and in politics that's calling "putting out a feeler". You'd benefit from some media literacy study, then you wouldn't say I'm weird, you'd say "well spotted, I see what they're doing".
"no no I'm not going to do this thing that likely nobody wants and nobody is asking about but would be really profitable for my pocket in the short term!" -> observe how much pushback he gets -> "guys guys I said I would NOT do it, god some people are weird".
I don’t need a media literacy class to recognize that he didn’t say the thing that you said he did.
If your first comment wasn’t a lie, and instead talked about how you think that he’s putting out feelers, I wouldn’t have commented. But instead, you made stuff up and that’s weird.
God, people are so weird. Why make stuff up?
No, in fact, he said the opposite. He said he doesn't want to do that because it feels "off-mission".
Whether he changes his tune in the future or not is up for debate, but come on. Lets not skip right to the pitchfork stage just yet.