Jon Stewart thinks people are getting the Elon Musk and Donald Trump breakup story all wrong.
“People are talking about it like it’s over. It’s not over,” he said on a new episode of his Weekly Show podcast released Thursday. “I don’t know what this story’s gonna be, but this is just the beginning.”
Stewart said the idea that Musk is “now gonna spend his life perfecting the Y model,” is unrealistic. “Like, f--- that. He’s already tasted being a creator and destroyer of worlds. Once you feel the ring, you don’t give it back.”
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Despite officially parting ways with the White House and DOGE, there’s no way Musk is going to stick his head in the sand after wielding so much power in American politics. And sure enough, soon after his exit, he launched a series of attacks on Trump’s supposed “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
“He now believes himself to be searching for the infinity stones,” Stewart said, likening Musk to the Marvel villain Thanos. “And that pursuit won’t end for any of these f---ng guys.”
The “confluence” of greed and unchecked power in the Musk-Trump matchup was too great, he explained. “That was an official, explicit confluence of the richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world, sitting next to each other, seeing how they’re going to divvy up the spoils,” he said, adding that the idea that they’d just leave it all behind makes no sense.
Even if they are feuding in public, Stewart believes they are still “collaborating” behind the scenes. Musk “will still use his media might and influence to shape things and Trump will still shower him with the spoils that go to those that are in favor of the king,” he said.
The media “may make theater” of how it’s all going down, Stewart went on, but “this story—we’re not even there yet.”
After Stewart recorded his podcast episode, however, things got even more heated between Trump and Musk when the president finally responded to Musk’s criticisms.
“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump said during a tirade from the Oval Office on Thursday. “I’m very disappointed with Elon. I’ve helped him a lot,” he also said, accusing Musk of only having a problem with his so-called “big, beautiful bill” after he found out it included cuts to the electrical vehicle mandate.
Musk fired back immediately on X, “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.” He added, “Such ingratitude.”
