Properly, properly, properly. The completely predictable but explosive finish to Donald Trump‘s relationship with oligarch Elon Musk was catnip for late evening hosts Thursday night, with the likes of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and Michael Kosta absolutely leaning into their glee on the billionaire breakup.
Trump and Musk’s beforehand mutually useful bromance has resulted in a messy and really public divorce, after rising tensions over the Tesla and SpaceX boss’ declining affect on the White Home, failures at DOGE and Trump’s massively controversial “Huge Stunning Invoice” that Musk feels will explode the U.S. deficit. Musk has spent the previous couple of days posting his displeasure in regards to the “debt slavery invoice” that was “a disgusting abomination.” Issues got here to a head Thursday, when Trump fired again at Musk, suggesting the Tesla CEO was salty and went “loopy” over the removing of EV credit within the spending invoice. That led to a frankly unbelievable social media cat combat that escalated to the purpose the place Musk alleged that the rationale why the Epstein Recordsdata had not been launched was as a result of Trump’s identify was in them.
On the Late Present, a giddy Stephen Colbert ran via your complete Trump-Musk forwards and backwards. After displaying a quick clip of the president saying he “helped Elon loads,” Colbert impersonated Trump and mentioned, “it’s true. I’ve helped Elon loads in the course of the marketing campaign. I helped him declutter his checking account of $288 million. He would hand me each greenback out, maintain it, and I might say ‘this one sparks pleasure.’ And within the pocket it goes protected and sound with Daddy.”
Recapping a few of the social media posts between the 2 males, Colbert mentioned, “Trump escalated by threatening Musk, [reading a post] ‘The best manner to economize in our funds, billions and billions of {dollars}, is to terminate Elon’s governmental subsidies and contracts. I used to be at all times shocked Biden didn’t do it.’ To which Elon Musk replied, ‘Go forward, make my day.’”
“Oh, you two bitches have already made mine,” Colbert replied with relish.
The Late Present host then moved on to Musk’s Epstein bombshell, and questioned if this part of the Twitter warfare was a “Tacky Gordita Crunchwrap Supreme? As a result of it’s dripping sizzling, messy filth, and I’m consuming up each sloppy chunk.”
Mimicking Musk’s accent and mannerisms, Colbert mentioned, “Donald Trump, was a sexual predator that preyed on younger girls, which is one thing I’ve solely determined to let you know as a result of he harm my emotions. I’m the hero of the story!”
Wrapping up the feud, Colbert joked that “probably the most highly effective man on the earth and the richest man on the earth, every with their very own missiles, are throwing haymakers at one another, like Actual Housewives on a women journey. He added, “This might simply get uncontrolled, however fortunately, a cooler head has stepped in to calm issues down. Kanye tweeted, ‘Broooos please noooooo [hug emoji]. We love you each a lot.’ Ye has entered the chat! Kanye, Elon and Trump? The best recreation of f**ok, marry, kill! As a result of clearly I’d kill myself. You recognize issues are dangerous when the rational voice mediating your dispute is Kanye West.”
Over at Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, host Jimmy Kimmel admitted that the Trump-Musk going nuclear had derailed his deliberate monologue. Kimmel zeroed in on the Epstein allegation, “Whoa! You recognize, I knew today would come and but, one way or the other, it’s even higher than I imagined. It’s like coming downstairs on Christmas morning, discovering a second tree.”
Kimmel continued on the Epstein subject, “That’s a critical accusation. What does Elon know? What proof might there probably be that Trump was in league with Jeffrey Epstein….” Kimmel then confirmed a number of photos and clips of Trump and Epstein socializing collectively. “I don’t know what data Elon has, however I doubt he’s simply making it up as a result of it’s not true. He might get sued for a zillion {dollars} for one thing like this,” Kimmel added.
“I really feel dangerous for Donald Trump. I imply, first, he misplaced Jeffrey Epstein. Now, he’s working out of associates. That is so laborious for everybody, besides me, in fact,” Kimmel mentioned.
Kimmel ended by saying, “There’s an enormous faction of the MAGA-verse that’s obsessive about the Jeffrey Epstein case. They see any listing of names any lunatic posts wherever on-line, they deal with them like they’re the Useless Sea Scrolls. However now you’ve bought one MAGA hero accusing one other MAGA hero of withholding the Epstein Recordsdata as a result of he himself is part of them. And what do they do? I can’t wait to seek out out. On the finish of this one in every of them’s in a cell with Diddy, that’s what I feel.”
Late Night time‘s Seth Meyers touched upon the Trump-Musk feud throughout his “Nearer Look” phase, hinting that the late breaking information meant he might solely contact on the breakup moderately than commit all his energies to it.
Recapping a dizzying day, Meyers mentioned, “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 the Trump is likely to be a pedophile. Additionally, if we’re to take you at your phrase Elon, you already knew that, and it wasn’t a dealbreaker.”
Meyers added, “It’s clear as ever that neither of those guys actually believed in something. Elon spending $300 million to get Republicans elected and now he’s shocked that they’re doing the factor everybody mentioned they might do. And within the course of, Trump used Elon to get again into energy. You recognize, in a manner, they have been proper, watching these guys destroy is each large and exquisite.”
On Thursday’s version The Day by day Present, Michael Kosta’s monologue additionally recapped a wild day describing the breakup as “World Struggle Douche.” Kosta was incredulous on the considered two extremely wealthy and highly effective males debasing themselves so publicly. “Can we simply level out how loopy 2025 is?” Kosta mentioned. “Most individuals can’t afford to eat eggs anymore. In the meantime, these two billionaires are attacking one another from completely different social media platforms that they every personal. Possibly we should always eat the wealthy?”
Relating to the Epstein accusation, Kosta mentioned, “It’s not a giant shock that Trump is likely to be within the Epstein Recordsdata. We’ve seen the occasion collectively. After all, Trump is within the Epstein Recordsdata. That is like saying, ‘Guys, they’re aliens in The X-Recordsdata.’ Yeah, clearly. However for his personal finest pal/sugar daddy to say this, that’s enormous. Though I like [how Musk ended his tweet with] ‘Have a pleasant day.’ I don’t know if Trump is, however I positive am.”
And lastly, The Tonight Present‘s Jimmy Fallon additionally touched upon the feud. “Trump and Elon have been brutally attacking one another all day, significantly, the connection went fully off a cliff quicker than a self-driving Tesla. I’m not saying it’s dangerous proper now, however Blake Energetic and Justin Baldoni are saying, ‘Guys take it simple, that is getting out of hand.’”