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Late-Night Hosts React to Trump and Musk’s Messy Breakup
“Their relationship went off a cliff faster than a self-driving Tesla.”
By the time the duo began going back and forth on social media, culminating in Musk accusing Trump of burying the Epstein files because he is named in them, it was easy to imagine these shows’ writers foaming at the mouth to pitch monologue jokes. “My fellow Americans and all the ships at sea, I hope you’ve stocked your family shelter with potable water and dehydrated turkey chili, because, ladies and gentlemen, a full-scale flame war has broken out between the world’s most famous besties,” Colbert kicked off his monologue Thursday night. In Thursday night’s opening, Kimmel joked that he feels bad for Trump lately because he’s running out of friends: “First, he lost Jeffrey Epstein, now Elon.” He then recapped some of the fallout from the public dissolution, referencing Steve Bannon’s comments that Musk should be deported and the outcry from an unlikely peacemaker: “Even Kanye West took a break from designing his new line of summer swastikas to say, ‘Bros, please no.
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