Jimmy Kimmel Predicts How Trump-Musk Friendship May Soon 'Blow Up Like A SpaceX Rocket'

Lee Moran

Updated 11 December 2024 at 8:12 am·1-min read

Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday joked about how President-elect Donald Trump may soon fall out with tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Trump, Musk, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, podcaster Joe Rogan and Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, are among those named on Time magazine’s shortlist for its 2024 “Person of the Year.”

“Can you imagine if Elon Musk gets ‘Person of the Year’ over Donald Trump?” Kimmel asked. “That’ll be the end of that relationship. That romance will blow up like a SpaceX rocket.”

Trump has tapped Musk to co-run an unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, which will seek to cut public spending.

Kimmel also mocked Trump’s nomination of former Fox Newser Kimberly Guilfoyle as the U.S. ambassador to Greece, the returning POTUS’ reported lobbying for daughter-in-law Lara Trump to become a senator for Florida and former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) new gig at One America News.

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