Following his exit from the White House, ending his run as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk left the government with a haphazard mess of devastating budget cuts and backlash from his shareholders and the public.
On Monday’s The Daily Show episode, Jon Stewart quickly chronicled Musk’s fall from “tech titan given a mandate to move fast and crush the deep state” to “guy who had a bad night in a Nashville bar he can’t remember.”
“DOGE has finally rooted out one of America’s least efficient government workers,” declared Stewart, celebrating the finale of Musk’s 130 days as a “special employee” in the White House last week. “He’s leaving his job to make more family with his time,” joked the host, referencing Musk’s obsession with having as many children as humanly possible.
“Look at this poor bastard,” said Stewart, directing the audience to a photo of Musk jumping on stage during a campaign event for Donald Trump to a photo of the billionaire with a black eye during a press conference with the president. “He’s looking beaten down. He’s got that look on his face that I imagine his employees normally have — black eye, 1000-yards stare. This dude has seen some shit,” said Stewart before cutting to a clip of Musk dubiously claiming his 5-year-old son X punched him in the face.
“Elon spent $300 million of his own money to get Trump elected, irreparably damaged his personal brand and almost all of his business, and is clearly suffering some kind of issue,” said Stewart, who then segued into a New York Times report that Musk allegedly took ketamine, Ecstasy, and psychedelic mushrooms during the 2024 campaign trail, and that reportedly he took so much ketamine he couldn’t pee right. (Musk has vehemently denied the report.)
Stewart mocked the SpaceX CEO rerouting a conversation to talk about “spaceships” instead of “presidential policy” during his exit interview on CBS News’ Sunday Morning. Trump has “broken this poor man,” observed Stewart. “But let this be a lesson to Elon and anybody in Trump’s orbit: whatever your passionate political belief or whatever your ideology is, you will go from reaching for mine stars to dissolving in a puddle of your own urine and shame and starting a fight club with your kid just to be able to feel because Trump … Trump doesn’t believe in anything, man.”
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