On Thursday, the web ignited as Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s bromance combusted in astonishing fashion, with the 2 titans of ego lobbing figurative grenades at one another on social media.
And on Thursday night time’s episode of “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” the host gawked on the spectacle, noting sarcastically, “Donald Trump and Elon Musk engaged in a really gentlemanly, one would possibly even say, scholarly, debate on the deserves of tax cuts and authorities spending.”
“I’m simply kidding,” Meyers rapidly clarified. “They’re fucking going at one another.”
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“Trump threatened to remove Elon’s authorities contacts. Elon stated Trump was in the Epstein files,” Meyers famous, referring to paperwork concerning the late financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, whom Trump has denied ever flying with or visiting on “his silly island.”
Although they have been as soon as allies of comfort, Trump and Musk soured on one another after Musk publicly opposed Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill to chop taxes and slash Medicaid this week. Musk took to X to label the invoice a “disgusting abomination.”
“Within the span of three hours, they went from Elon criticizing the invoice, to Trump threatening to take Elon’s contracts away, to Elon suggesting that Trump could be a pedophile,” Meyers recapped.
He then zeroed in on one drawback with Musk’s suggestion that Trump was concerned in legal exercise with minors.
“If we’re to take you at your phrase, Elon, you already knew that — and it wasn’t a dealbreaker,” he identified.
