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Elon Musk has once again spoken out against skits involving his White House antics on late night TV, as a Daily Show 'Tesla Auto Mall' video has drawn a 'brutal' response from the car company's CEO on X.
You begin to lose count of the people that Elon Musk has clashed with on X in the past few months alone, as he's had fiery spats with everyone from horror icon Stephen King to Mike Myers and SNL.
He's certainly giving these detractors plenty of ammunition to play with due to his new high profile role in American politics at the right hand of US President Donald Trump, and it's once again not taken much to strike the nerve of the richest man in the world.
Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall! pic.twitter.com/DjVZY0R8wL
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) March 12, 2025
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Following a bizarre publicity stunt that saw President Trump promoting Tesla outside of the White House alongside it's CEO and 'founder' Musk, Jon Stewart's The Daily Show decided to produce a satirical advert depicting the White House as an 'auto mall'.
It'll instantly make you recall trashy adverts for dodgy used car dealerships, with Trump's breakdown of the electric vehicle's qualities at the heart of it all.
"So don't waste your time going to those other Tesla dealerships with riots and flaming Cybertrucks, you've gotta come down to White House Tesla Auto Mall," the skit ends.
Naturally it caught the attention of Musk after being posted to his own social media platform, to which he offered his own five word response:
"Thanks for helping sell Teslas!! [laughing emoji]" Musk joked, but if recent reports of a sales decline and significant stock market losses are anything to consider, he might well need all the help he can get.
Thanks for helping sell Teslas!! 😂
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 13, 2025
He's certainly getting that from the President though, as The Daily Show's sketch - like Myers' portrayal of Musk - isn't too far from the truth.
Trump's appearance alongside a MAGA-esque red Tesla was nothing short of an advertisement, as he claimed that he's buying a 'brand new Tesla' despite the fact that he's not actually allowed to drive one himself.
On top of this, President Trump indicated that anyone who 'messes with' Tesla will be put 'through hell' after outlining that people targeting Tesla dealerships will be treated as 'domestic terrorists'.
You don't need to look back too far to see a wildly different stance from Trump on the rise of electric vehicles, as resurfaced comments show that he believed they were 'destroying our once great USA' and should 'rot in hell'.
Close affiliation with Musk appears to have cured this distaste for EVs despite once claiming that they were "the idea of the Radical Left Fascists, Marxists, & Communists," much like his opinion shift on Musk himself.
