Yahoo Lifestyle Jimmy Kimmel Takes Down Elon Musk’s ‘DOGE’ Plan With 1 Pretty ‘Fly’ Dig
Jimmy Kimmel roasted Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk after the “Lenny and Squiggy of Trump town” met with GOP lawmakers on Thursday to discuss their hopes for the Trump-backed “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE.
Musk and Ramaswamy are tasked to co-lead DOGE, the president-elect’s proposed government efficiency commission with a name inspired by a meme and cryptocurrency. (Ramaswamy owns a stake in HuffPost’s parent company, BuzzFeed.)
“This group they run, DOGE, has no power to make laws, to cut budget or to do anything — it’s like when you’re a kid and you visit the cockpit, the pilot — you get a set of wings. It doesn’t mean you get to fly the plane,” Kimmel joked.
On Thursday, the pair didn’t respond to questions from the media and made a spectacle out of their D.C. stop as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) referred to the visit as a “brainstorming session” with lawmakers.
“We don’t know all of what went on in the meeting, we can assume that there were a lot of missed high-fives,” the late-night host quipped.
Kimmel went on to mock Musk’s Santa Claus-like plan after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told reporters that the billionaire and Ramaswamy will have a “naughty” and “nice” list for lawmakers.
“Nothing to worry about,” said Kimmel of Musk, “there’s just a foreign-born billionaire deciding which of our elected officials get to wake up on Christmas morning and which don’t.”
Catch more of Kimmel’s Thursday monologue below.