Bill Maher unloaded on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk over their public fallout, as he christened the previous allies Friday with a pop culture-inspired nickname on the newest version of “Real Time With Bill Maher.”
“I imply when you consider it, the richest man on the earth and probably the most highly effective man on the earth, it’s like Godzilla versus King Kong — if Godzilla was on ketamine and King Kong had a combover,” Maher joked to applause during his opening monologue.
“I imply, these guys had been so shut,” the comic continued. “It was like ‘Brangelina’ or ‘Bennifer.’ No, you recognize that Elon and Trump, that they had their very own couple identify — ‘Elump.’ And you recognize, what occurred this week — this has been brewing for some time, OK individuals?”
“Brangelina” and “Bennifer” had been the respective nicknames for former {couples} Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Whereas many fans were shocked when these explicit romances crumbled, Maher argued Friday that it was clear “Elump” would.
Musk spent a fortune to help elect Trump and likewise headed the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which has gutted key establishments and fired hundreds of federal staffers with the said purpose of supposedly reducing wasteful public spending.
Maher argued Friday that Musk had particularly entered politics to curb government bloat, just for the GOP to craft the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — which includes nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts and pumps billions extra into Trump’s mass deportation initiative.
Their rift over the measure started final month, as Musk ready to go away his authorities place and started publicly criticizing the bill. The feud culminated in a bombshell publish Thursday on X, previously Twitter, when Musk said Trump was “in the Epstein files.”
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Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who died in prison in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking costs, ran in the identical circles as Trump within the Eighties and Nineties. Trump appeared to handle the accusation Friday by reposting a favorable statement from Epstein’s former lawyer, David Schoen.
Whereas Musk has since deleted his personal publish, Maher mentioned the Trump-Musk feud is now “a conflict that’s going backwards and forwards,” and joked that “the winner faces Blake Lively” — whose authorized battle with “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni not too long ago dominated the pop culture discourse.
