Invoice 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 mean when you think about it, the richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world, it’s like Godzilla versus King Kong — if Godzilla was on ketamine and King Kong had a combover,” Maher joked to applause throughout his opening monologue.
“I mean, these guys were so close,” the comic continued. “It was like ‘Brangelina’ or ‘Bennifer.’ No, you know that Elon and Trump, they had their own couple name — ‘Elump.’ And you know, what happened this week — this has been brewing for a while, OK people?”
“Brangelina” and “Bennifer” have been the respective nicknames for former {couples} Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Whereas many followers have been shocked when these explicit romances crumbled, Maher argued Friday that it was clear “Elump” would.
Musk spent a fortune to assist elect Trump and in addition headed the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity, which has gutted key establishments and fired 1000’s of federal staffers with the said purpose of supposedly chopping wasteful public spending.
Maher argued Friday that Musk had particularly entered politics to curb authorities bloat, just for the GOP to craft the One Large Lovely Invoice Act — which consists of almost $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 began publicly criticizing the invoice. The feud culminated in a bombshell put up Thursday on X, previously Twitter, when Musk stated Trump was “in the Epstein files.”
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Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who died in jail in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking fees, ran in the identical circles as Trump within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties. Trump appeared to handle the accusation Friday by reposting a positive assertion from Epstein’s former lawyer, David Schoen.
Whereas Musk has since deleted his personal put up, Maher stated the Trump-Musk feud is now “a war that is going back and forth,” and joked that “the winner faces Blake Lively” — whose authorized battle with “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni just lately dominated the popular culture discourse.
