Comedian Bill Maher waded into the burgeoning blowout between President Donald Trump and former “First Buddy” Elon Musk by skewering them both.
During the opening monologue of his Real Time With Bill Maher show on Friday, Maher said he wasn’t “going to pretend I can think about anything other than the Trump-Elon thing.”
Describing the tiff as the “richest man in the world” versus “the most powerful man in the world,” Maher said “it’s like Godzilla vs. King Kong.”
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He added, amid audience laughter, “If Godzilla was on ketamine and King Kong had a combover.”
Adding more pop culture references, Maher lamented that the two powerful men were once “so close,” like “Brangelina” or “Bennifer,” branding Trump and Musk’s relationship: “Elump.”
Maher alleged that their blowout “has been brewing for awhile,” and jabs and allegations waged by both men seem to back up those claims.
After Trump officially relieved Musk from his DOGE duties last week, giving him a ceremonial key to complement the occasion, the president seems to have quickly changed the locks as he claimed that the billionaire’s presence had worn “thin” in the White House.
Looking to cleanse all memories of Musk like a bad breakup, outlets reported that Trump was also getting rid of the Tesla he bought to promote Musk’s electric car company in March.
All this came after Musk fired the first strike by ripping Trump’s “big beautiful bill” as “ugly” and “pork-filled,” followed by a near three day tweet storm that laid into the MAGA president with explosive claims about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Insiders claimed that Musk’s relationship with Trump began to sour after he rejected Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, but even Isaacman seemed to suggest that there was already a change of tide brewing that led to his rejection.
“I’m not going to play dumb on this—I don’t think timing was much of a coincidence… there were other changes going on the same day,” Isaacman told Matt Gaetz on a Wednesday episode of the All-In Podcast.
Maher quipped that the tiff as escalated into an all out “war.”
Maher added, “And the stakes are so high because the winner faces Blake Lively”—taking a shot at the actress who has been in a legal battle with her former co-star Justin Baldoni since last year.
