With Tesla shares plunging, homeowners dashing to promote their autos, and protests towards Elon Musk’s automobile firm rising, it has been a nasty time for Tesla and its Trump-supporting CEO. And on Tuesday, The Late Present host Stephen Colbert used his monologue to interrupt all of it down.
“Here is the factor. This downturn did not simply begin yesterday, as a result of Tesla inventory has plummeted 50 p.c since December,” mentioned Colbert. “And there is a good motive for that. It is a phenomenon economists name ‘Everybody Fucking Hates This Man.'”
On Monday, Trump hit his personal social media platform Reality Social to defend “Elon’s ‘child'” and declare that folks have been making an attempt to “illegally and collusively boycott Tesla.”
“How do you illegally boycott one thing?” mentioned Colbert on The Late Present. “Shopping for issues is elective. That is why if you stroll right into a West Elm they do not lock the door and say, ‘You need out? Then purchase a fats candle with three wicks in it.'”
However the newest publicity stunt on Tuesday noticed the U.S. president and Musk operating a Tesla advert on the White Home at which the president purchased a $90,000 Tesla Mannequin S Plaid — a mannequin Trump marvelled over as a result of “every thing is laptop.”
“After all all of this was to shore up Elon’s fading model and Trump nearly acquired the title proper,” mentioned Colbert, earlier than exhibiting a clip of the president declaring, “I really like Teslerr.”
