Jordan Klepper is raising the alarms on the growing influence of Elon Musk, reacting to Tuesday’s bizarre press conference that saw the Tesla CEO appear alongside President Donald Trump at the Oval Office.
Klepper struggled to find the worst part of Musk’s presser. He started off with how Musk had brought his 4-year-old son along without his mother’s permission.
“That poor kid,” Klepper joked. “His dad literally runs SpaceX, and Elon took him to a meeting on federal spending. ‘Dad, are we gonna get to see the rockets?’ ‘No, son, we’re gonna discuss budgets because I’m a s---ty dad.‘”
Klepper ripped into the apparent power imbalance between Musk and Trump, noting how the tech billionaire was leading the meeting in the president’s office.
“I mean, everything about this event was so bizarre,“ Klepper said. ”Trump was sitting quietly for half an hour, retreating to his happy place, thinking about Arnold Palmer’s giant DOGE."
What Klepper found more embarrassing was how Musk claimed to care a lot about making sure Americans “live in a democracy.”
Klepper played a clip of Musk at the presser arguing, “It’s incredibly important that the president, House and the Senate decide what happens, as opposed to a large, unelected bureaucracy.”
“Isn’t that you?” Klepper replied. “I mean, am I going crazy? Because it feels like I’m watching Drake sing ‘Not Like Us’ at karaoke. Like, does he not know?”
Klepper also showed a clip from the presser where Musk admitted that “nobody’s gonna bat a thousand” when asked about false claims he’s made about government misspending.
“You made up a $50 million conspiracy of sending condoms to Gaza,” Klepper replied. “You’re not grounding out to third, you’re puking into the umpire’s mound.”
Klepper continued, “So, to summarize, [Musk]’s not transparent, he has tons of conflict, he believes any lie he hears, and he spreads false rumors that go global. Honestly, I’d be pretty mad at him right now if he didn’t have so much gosh-darn charisma.”
Klepper shared a clip of perhaps the most painful moment of Musk’s Oval Office presser when he made an awkwardly-delivered joke about how “150-year-old” people who are supposedly receiving social security checks should “be on the Guinness Book of World Records.”
“Tough crowd!” Klepper said. He then played a fake ad for an Elon Musk comedy special, called “LOL-igarch.”
Over a montage of Musk delivering one stilted joke after another, the sarcastic narrator said, “Oh snap! He’s the CEO... of comedy!”
