Roy Wood Jr. compared Elon Musk to a friend’s girlfriend who “nobody liked” in a withering CNN segment.
The comedian, who hosts Have I Got News For You on the network, delivered the assessment Thursday evening on NewsNight with Abby Phillip during a chat about the ever-present billionaire’s chagrin at the courts blocking his ambitions.
President Donald Trump has let Musk and his DOGE minions act with near impunity so far to slash the federal government, but federal judges have stymied their goals by barring them from doing certain things, like freezing federal funding. That pushback led Musk to call for “an immediate wave of judicial impeachments.”
Wood delivered his “girlfriend” anecdote after the NewsNight panel laid into Musk.
“I look at this Trump-Elon relationship,” he began. “You ever had a homeboy who had a girlfriend nobody liked? And he has to act like… ‘Oh, we’re fine. We’re happy.’ Like, it is going to take a consecutive series of brave people to keep this administration from going off the rails.”
Before Wood’s take, the CNN panel suggested that it is democracy itself that is holding back Trump’s “first buddy.”
“First of all, judges being able to stop things that are against the law is actually how a democracy is supposed to work,” host Abby Phillip said, joking that she’d like to give Musk a “high school history lesson.”
Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin also took a swipe, adding: “Only since only since 1803.”
Wood suggested that judges who continue to get in the way of the Trump-Musk battering ram are “brave,” as the pair will come for anyone who doesn’t side with them.
The American Bar Association said on Tuesday that such behavior poses “serious risks to our constitutional framework.”
