'Daily Show' Spots The 1 Way Elon Musk's Trump Friendship Isn't So 'Cyber-F**ked'
'Daily Show' correspondent Desi Lydic roasted ex-White House adviser Elon Musk on Thursday after he showed how his 'unsalvageable' friendship with President Donald Trump proved to be not-so-'cyber-fucked' after all.
Lydic — after briefly summing up the 'ugly' falling-out between the two, including Musk's claim that Trump is in the Jeffrey Epstein files — turned to the billionaire's reveal this week that he regrets some of his posts about the president, writing that they 'went too far.'
Lydic swiftly dismissed Musk's backtrack.
'I mean, I'm glad he apologized because I guess it showed us exactly how long it takes for ketamine to wear off,' she quipped of Musk who's been accused of heavy drug use including ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic.
Moments earlier, she stressed that you can't 'whoopsie-daisy your way' out of saying someone's in the Epstein files.
'It's not like saying, 'Sorry, I slammed the door,' or 'Sorry I shoved marbles up your cat's butt,'' added Lydic in a partial dig at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who recently made a bizarre feline claim while weighing in on a 'boondoggle' in the Pentagon's medical research budget.
Check out more of Lydic's Thursday monologue on 'The Daily Show.'
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Tucker Carlson Blasts Former Fox News Colleague Sean Hannity: 'Warmongers'
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The Hill
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- The Hill
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"Secretary Noem Holds Press Briefing on LA Riots." YouTube, 12 June 2025, Accessed 13 June 2025. Macht, Daniel. "California Sen. Alex Padilla Removed from Press Conference with Homeland Security Secretary, Forced to Ground and Handcuffed." KCRA, 12 June 2025, Accessed 13 June 2025. Nnamdi Egwuonwu. "Sen. Alex Padilla Disputes Trump Administration's Account of His Forcible Removal at a DHS Event." NBC News, 12 June 2025, Accessed 13 June 2025. Pod Save America. "Alex Padilla Shuts down Trump's Lies after Being Tackled by Federal Agents." YouTube, 12 June 2025, Accessed 13 June 2025.
