Invoice Maher mentioned all he might take into consideration in the course of the Actual Time episode on Friday, June 6, was “the Trump/Elon factor” — i.e. the escalating feud between President Donald Trump and former DOGE head Elon Musk.
“When you concentrate on it, the richest man on the planet and probably the most highly effective man on the planet, it’s like Godzilla versus King Kong if Godzilla was on ketamine and King Kong had a combover,” Maher mentioned on the HBO present Friday. “I imply, these guys have been so shut. It was like Brangelina or Bennifer. No, that. Elon and Trump — that they had their very own couple title: Elump.”
Maher recapped the drama up to now. After stepping again from his publish main the Division of Authorities Effectivity, Musk criticized Trump’s One Large Lovely Invoice Act, calling it a “huge, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending invoice” and a “disgusting abomination.” Trump then mentioned Musk had the so-called “Trump derangement syndrome,” and Musk mentioned Trump’s tariffs will trigger an financial recession. Trump mentioned that Musk was offended “as a result of we took the EV mandate,” and Musk mentioned that with out him, Trump “would have misplaced the election.”
“After which the s*** obtained actual,” Maher mentioned. “Trump mentioned, ‘Properly, what? Mars is a s***gap planet.’ And Elon mentioned, ‘Oh my god, you aren’t the identical man I used to heil.’ Now, for these conserving a rating at dwelling and who watch the present for the information, I made the final two up, but it surely’s very onerous to inform that are those that I made up. Simply the final two; the opposite ones are actual.”
Maher added that the feud has “gotten even nastier” with Musk’s allegation — in a now-offline X publish — that Trump is talked about in recordsdata associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein and that that’s the reason the Epstein recordsdata haven’t absolutely launched to the general public.
“And now that is only a struggle that’s going backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards, and the stakes are so excessive as a result of the winner faces Blake Vigorous,” Maher mentioned, referring to Vigorous’s authorized battle towards It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni.
Actual Time With Invoice Maher, Fridays, 10/9c, HBO