Jon Stewart is at it again.
The host of “The Daily Show” on Monday again called world’s richest man Elon Musk‘s bluff after the top adviser to President Donald Trump floated appearing on the show.
Last week, “The Daily Show” goaded Musk to sit down for an interview after the billionaire said he’d make an appearance under one circumstance: “I will do it if the show airs unedited.”
“.@elonmusk we’d be delighted!" replied “The Daily Show” on its X account.
But Musk quickly backpedaled.
“He then said, after saying he’d like to come on, ‘Jon Stewart cannot be trusted,’ and that I am a propagandist and that I am not bipartisan,” Stewart said on Monday night’s show.
“And that I am not bipartisan? Again, the guy who custom-made his own Dark-MAGA hat — that he wears to opine in the Oval Office with the president who he spent $270 million to elect — thinks I’m just too partisan," Stewart joked.
“I’m really not sure what he thinks bipartisan means,” he said. “But it’s generally not ‘I support Donald Trump. And also Germany’s AfD party.’ That is not bipartisan. That is just the same sh-t.”
He added: “So I guess what I would say is this. Look, Elon, I do have some criticism about DOGE. I support in general the idea of efficiency and delivering better services to the American public in cheaper and more efficient ways. And if you want to come on and talk about it on the show, great. If you don’t want to, sure. But can we just drop the pretense that you won’t do it because I don’t measure up to the standards of neutral discourse that you demand and display at all times? Because, quite frankly, that’s bullsh-t.”
The back and forth comes after Stewart railed against DOGE last week for its haphazard and controversial attempts to cut waste in government on Monday night’s show.
“I’m starting to think that we as a country don’t understand where the real waste, fraud, and abuse in our system really is,“ he said during his monologue. “How about we just take $3 billion in subsidies we give to oil and gas companies that already turn billions in profits?”
He continued: “Oh, wait! How about we just close down the carried interest loophole on hedge funds? That’s $1.3 billion a year. How about we stop the $2 trillion we’ve given to defense contractors to build a fighter jet that blows?”
And then came a bloody turn of events. Literally.
Stewart went off over how “pharmaceutical companies get everything from our government,” explaining, “Tax breaks, research grants, patent extensions worth billions of dollars. And what do we the people get for it? The highest drug prices in the western hemisphere.”
After showing a clip of former President Joe Biden hailing cuts to the costs of 10 drugs that his administration was able to get, Stewart quipped, “Oh, can it be? The companies we subsidize with billions of dollars are allowing us the privilege to negotiate the price of 10 of their drugs?”
“And 10 is all of them, right? It would be embarrassing if it was a small drop in the bucket and that the American people didn’t expect that we should negotiate for all their f---ing drugs because we’ve already paid for it with our subsidies!”
He smashed a coffee mug on his desk, yelling, “Come on!” It shattered and the host soon realized his hand was bleeding.
“I’ll be going to the hospital soon,” he joked.
