Jimmy Kimmel Fires Back at Elon Musk: ‘At Least My Children Like Me’

Jimmy Kimmel switched targets from Donald Trump to another MAGA identity in his monologue Thursday night, showing a recent post from Elon Musk where he declared Kimmel to be an “insufferable nonsense propaganda puppet.”

“At least my children like me, you know,” Kimmel replied, referencing how Musk’s 20-year-old daughter Vivian Wilson has been very open about how little respect she has for him.

“The guy who paid people a million dollars a day to vote for Donald Trump is calling me a propaganda puppet,” Kimmel marveled. “Listen, Kermit: You bought Twitter, you bought a social media platform, that is literally a propaganda machine.”

Kimmel continued, “Let me tell you something: if I spent two weeks trying to come up with a four-word description of Elon Musk, I don’t think I could do better than ‘insufferable nonsense propaganda puppet.’”

Kimmel pointed out just how many times Musk has thrown the “propaganda puppet” accusation around, including a September tweet complaining, “AP stands for Associated Propaganda.”

“Good one, Broseph,” said Kimmel.

The late night host showed a 2022 Truth Social post from Donald Trump, where he wrote, “When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘Drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it.”

“And you know what he means by beg, right?” said Kimmel in response.

“But I’m sure you guys would be great together now,” the late-night host claimed as he wrapped up his speech. “I’m sure his little hand will fit nicely in your sock hole.”