Jordan Klepper offered no apologies to the MAGA pundits angry about his Tesla jokes this week. He instead asked why we should care about Elon Musk’s Tesla woes at all.
“I just don’t understand why it’s our responsibility to help a man who’s destroying his own brand with deeply unpopular policies," Klepper said, talking with The Daily Show correspondent Troy Iwata in a mock interview.
Iwata, meanwhile, kept jokingly pleading with viewers to donate money to help Musk get through his “hard time.”
“You can help for the simple price of $30,000,” Iwata told viewers. “That’s just 70,000 cups of coffee a day. You can make sure the richest man in America stays the richest man in America.”
“Troy, are you running a charity for Elon Musk?” Klepper asked.
Iwata kept going: “This man is barely worth $300 billion at this point, but we can change that: for the simple price of $50,000, you can help a 53-year-old boy afford all the things he was already able to afford.”
Iwata escalated the joke even further, telling viewers, “For the even simpler price of $2.5 million, you will get a thank you letter from one of his 37 children asking how they can get in touch with their father.”
Earlier in the segment, Klepper made fun of the Trump administration for having their prominent members (even Trump himself) do advertisements for Tesla.
“Last night, they sent Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Fox News to make a pitch," Klepper said.
He showed a clip of Lutnick in an interview with Sean Hannity, urging viewers to buy Tesla stock.
“Gross. A bit gross,” Klepper replied. “Cabinet members should not be shilling for companies.”
Klepper summed up the situation, saying, “Tesla stock is in the toilet, and they can’t let that happen. They can’t let that happen because Elon Musk is a key member of the Trump administration and, more importantly, the Republican Party’s sugar daddy.”
