For late night comedians, the Elon Musk-Donald Trump feud is pure gold. Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show was among those taking on the political war of words.
Colbert laid out the details for his audience on Thursday night, June 5.
“Here’s where we stand. Musk spent all day yesterday slamming Trump’s big, beautiful bill to his 200 million followers on Twitter. What’s most impressive, only half of those are his kids,” the comedian quipped. “Here’s the thing. I was impressed by this. Trump held his return fire until today in a press conference with German Chancellor Gerhard Nachwurst.”
Musk is furious over a loss in the latest edition of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” legislation of an EV mandate, which would have meant a windfall for his Tesla stock, Colbert contended.
Musk live-tweeted that without him, Trump would have lost the election, Democrats would control the House, and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.
“Buddy! Buddy, have you been to a Tesla dealership lately?” said Colbert. “Because nobody else has. Now, as soon as Trump was done meeting with Chancellor Braunschweiger, he clapped back... ‘I asked him to leave. I took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted, that he knew for months I was going to do, and he just went crazy,'” Colbert said, imitating Trump.
The comedian couldn’t resist on that line and said: “I’m sorry, went crazy? Elon has always lived at the geographic center of insanity. He’s not the mayor of Crazy Town. He’s the governor of Medsylvania also.”
Colbert cotended that cutting Musk’s contracts with the government, as Trump has threatened to do, “isn’t just petty, it’s dangerous. Because as one [X] user pointed out, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft transports astronauts to and from the International Space Station.”
The comedian concluded, “The most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world, each with their own missiles, are throwing haymakers at each other like Real Housewives on the girls’ trip. This could easily get out of control, but thankfully a cooler head has stepped in to calm things down,” he quipped referring to Kanye West.
Kanye West, now known as Ye, tweeted, “Bros, please, no? We love you both so much.”
“You know things are bad when the rational voice mediating your dispute is Kanye West,” Colbert cracked. “That’s like walking into an intervention organized by Captain Morgan. Arr! Arr! Keep drinking. People like you more when you’re a little spicy.”
The Late Show airs weeknights on CBS.
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