Stephen Colbert poked enjoyable at Donald Trump‘s Tesla-buying publicity stunt on Tuesday’s (March 11) The Late Present, stating how the President couldn’t even get the corporate’s identify proper.
“He virtually obtained the identify proper,” Colbert mentioned earlier than displaying a clip of Trump outdoors the White Home saying, “I like Tesler!”
It’s an sincere mistake,” the late-night host responded. “He simply blended up the 2 phrases most related to Elon Musk: Tesla and Hitler.”
On Tuesday, Trump and Musk talked to reporters outdoors the White Home in entrance of a show of Tesla automobiles. This got here after reviews of Tesla inventory plummeting and Musk shedding virtually $30 billion in inventory worth.
Colbert identified how Musk blamed the losses on “activists and Ukrainian hackers” earlier than brushing it off with a Monty Python reference, saying, “At all times look on the intense facet of life!”
The comic fired again with a Monty Python reference of his personal, displaying a clip of John Cleese in The Holy Grail saying, “I fart in your common route.”
Colbert famous how Tesla inventory has plummeted 50% since December, joking, “It’s a phenomenon economists name, ‘Everybody f****** hates that man.’”
He then turned his consideration to Trump’s publish on Reality Social on Monday (March 10), the place he claimed individuals had been attempting to “illegally and collusively boycott Tesla.”
“How do you illegally boycott one thing?” Colbert replied. “Shopping for issues is elective. That’s why once you stroll right into a West Elm, they don’t lock the door and say, ‘You need out? Then purchase a fats candle with three wicks in it.’”
Elsewhere in his monologue, Colbert centered on how Trump’s “chaotic” commerce struggle has despatched the Dow into free fall, saying, “Yesterday the Dow tripped on Trump’s tariffs and fell down an elevator shaft. And at present it saved bonking its head on the way in which down, plunging greater than 400 factors.”
He then confirmed a clip from Fox Information, the place the anchors blamed the falling inventory market on former President Joe Biden.
“That excuse is getting tougher and tougher to bake,” Colbert mentioned earlier than quipping, “‘You going within the rest room? You higher give it a minute—Joe Biden was in there about eight weeks in the past.’”
You’ll be able to watch Colbert’s full opening monologue within the video above.
The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Weeknights, 11:35/10:35c, CBS