Jon Stewart returned to The Every day Present on Monday (June 2) after the vacation break and wasted no time celebrating the departure of Elon Musk from the Oval Workplace and the Division of Authorities Effectivity.
“Talking of misanthropic data-hoarders, DOGE has lastly rooted out considered one of America’s least environment friendly authorities employees and marked him for dismissal,” the late-night host mentioned on the prime of Monday’s present, exhibiting a photograph of a downtrodden-looking Musk on the display.
“He’s leaving his job to make extra household together with his time,” Stewart quipped, referring to the tech billionaire’s 14 kids with 4 totally different ladies. “He f***ed quite a bit, or simply has a mail-order sperm farm going, I don’t know.”
Stewart then identified how a lot Musk had modified after simply 4 months of working alongside President Donald Trump, exhibiting a photograph of him gleefully leaping on stage throughout the inauguration, adopted by his crestfallen have a look at a current Oval Workplace look.
“He went from tech titan, given a mandate to maneuver quick and crush the deep state, to man who had a foul night time in a Nashville bar he can’t bear in mind, okay?” the comic joked. “He’s received that look, like, ‘Has anybody seen my sneakers?’ He seems crushed down. He’s received that look on his face that I think about his workers usually have.”
“Black eye, thousand-yard stare… this dude has seen some s***,” Stewart continued earlier than having a look at Musk’s last administration exit interview on CBS Information Sunday Morning.
“Clearly, we on this program would have been delighted to supply an unedited discussion board for Elon to debate his journey from hard-working effectivity skilled to drug-addled youngster star mug shot. However he selected to go in a distinct route by type of talking to your theater-loving mother and father’ favourite information program,” Stewart mentioned of Musk’s Sunday Morning look, the place he dodged any political questions and tried to steer the interview into speaking about his “spaceships.”
“Look what Trump has diminished this man to,” he added. “He has damaged this poor man. Simply in an interview, ‘Can’t we simply discuss spaceships? I used to be advised we’d each be carrying helmets and speaking about [spaceships]. I’m only a easy boy with a set of Star Wars sheets and pillows, and I actually would identical to to speak about spaceships.”
Stewart mentioned this whole state of affairs must be a lesson for Musk and anybody else coping with Trump. “No matter your passionate political perception or no matter your ideology is, you’ll go from reaching for mine stars to dissolving in a puddle of your personal urine and disgrace and beginning a battle membership along with your child simply to have the ability to really feel.”
“As a result of Trump doesn’t imagine in something, man,” Stewart added. “Trump’s very open secret has at all times been: He doesn’t imagine in or care about any coverage problem in any respect. He desires consideration, he desires his ego stroked and he desires cash — he desires f***wads and f***wads of cash.”
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