The Daily Show unpacks Elon Musk protests: Its not about the Teslas
Like fellow late night hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers, The Daily Show‘s Jordan Klepper used a segment on Wednesday night’s show to unpack the current backlash against Elon Musk, from Tesla vandalism to federal worker protests to heated town hall meetings.
The Tesla CEO, Trump ally, “special government employee,” and head of the government’s recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has seen enough bad news over the last few weeks that the president ran a Tesla ad for him on the White House lawn and Musk lamented anti-Tesla sentiments on Fox News with Sean Hannity.
But as Klepper points out, “It’s not about the Teslas.”
“I don’t think people are mad at you because of the Teslas, Elon,” said The Daily Show host. “If I were to hazard a guess about why they’d be mad it might be because in the last several weeks you fired tens of thousands of federal workers, you made cuts to veterans care, lifesaving foreign aid, and food banks, you cancelled important medical research… Yeah, people might get a little upset if you stop their medical trial halfway through them.”
