John Oliver has weighed in on the Donald Trump and Elon Musk feud that simmered on the latter’s social media platform X, which reached a head prior to the weekend as the two engaged in barbs the Last Week Tonight host said gave “Real Housewives energy.”
Trouble began brewing Thursday when bitter comments and vitriolic accusations unfurled online between the most powerful man on Earth and the world’s richest man, with X users having a field day in poking fun at the messy fallout.
In one of several Truth Social posts, POTUS wrote that the Tesla CEO was “wearing thin,” and that he “asked him to leave,” adding, “I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!”
In response, Musk said “the real reason [the Epstein files] have not been made public” is because Trump is “in” them. “Have a nice day, DJT!” he quipped in a since-deleted tweet.
“Setting aside that Trump being in the Epstein files is not a bombshell, it is a commonly held assumption,” Oliver remarked. “They basically spent a full day fighting with big Real Housewives energy. In fact, at one point, Andy Cohen posted, ‘Let me host the reunion!’ Which makes complete sense to me because, at their core, these two men are real housewives: both of them have hair that’s expensive and wrong, both have sketchy business ventures that I don’t fully understand, they both spend far too much time online and if either of them isn’t the center of attention for a single second, they will die. Honestly, the only thing that’s missing is a messy in-person confrontation where Andy Cohen gets one of them to read a tweet and the other throws a daiquiri in his face. Why can’t we have this?”