Jon Stewart has formally invited Elon Musk to seem on “The Daily Show” after the billionaire entrepreneur instructed he would conform to an interview beneath one situation: that it air “unedited.”
Stewart’s on-air invite comes days after the “Daily Show” stated on its X account that it will be “delighted” for Musk to seem on the satirical program if it agreed to air the interview unedited.
Final week, Musk blasted Stewart after the “Daily Show” host devoted one in all his monologues to DOGE cuts — with Stewart getting so labored up throughout his remarks that he ended up slicing his hand open.
Monday night time, Stewart used his opening monologue to handle Musk’s request head-on.
“After a prayerful week with my family — well, a family. It is a family hall pass situation,” Stewart quipped.
“After thinking about his offer, I thought, ‘You know, hey, that’s actually how the in-studio interviews normally air. Unedited.’ So, sure. We’d be delighted,” he stated.
Stewart stated he desires to “sweeten or unsweeten the pot.”
“The interview can be 15 minutes, an hour, two hours, whatever. I’ll be honest, I don’t think this network makes any other programming. So we can do whatever the f–k we want.”
Stewart’s remarks adopted Musk’s latest posts criticizing “The Daily Show” and its host.
In a single X publish, Musk labeled Stewart a “propagandist,” whereas in one other, he lamented that Stewart “used to be more bipartisan.”
“You give me too little credit,” Stewart responded on Monday.
“Again, the guy who custom-made his own dark MAGA hat that he wears to opine in the Oval Office with the president who he spent $270 million to elect thinks I’m just too partisan. I’m really not sure what he thinks bipartisan means.”
The back-and-forth between Stewart and Musk was prompted by the host’s criticism of the Tesla mogul, who has been on a cost-cutting spree aimed toward downsizing the federal authorities — a mandate given to him as head of the newly created Division of Authorities Effectivity.
Stewart went on to reiterate his willingness to host Musk and have a substantive dialogue concerning the effectivity of presidency companies.
“Elon, if you want to do the show, great. I support, in general, the idea of efficiency and delivering better services to the American public in cheaper and more efficient ways, and if you want to come in and talk about it on the show, great,” Stewart stated.
The host then urged Musk to “drop the pretense that you won’t do it because I don’t measure up to the standards of neutral discourse that you demand and display at all times.”
Musk, who has lengthy championed authorities streamlining, later returned to X with a suggestion in response to Stewart’s fiery critique of DOGE’s finances cuts.
“I will send him some @DOGE merch to comfort him while he recovers from this injury,” Musk posted, referencing Stewart’s on-air mishap during which he reduce his hand whereas slamming a espresso cup on his desk throughout a rant.
Regardless of the harm, Stewart continued his broadcast, later utilizing the second to emphasise his place on authorities inefficiency.
“I want to get rid of the alphabet agencies that don’t do enough,” Stewart stated.
“Make the Pentagon pass an audit. But we are DOGE-ing in the wrong place if we want to really change the system.”
In the meantime, Trump’s official retailer has capitalized on the eye, launching a line of DOGE-themed merchandise, together with $55 MAGA baseball caps, $180 pickleball paddles, and $47 membership playing cards that includes a graphic of the president’s face.
Musk later responded to a publish suggesting Stewart’s harm was symbolic of Democratic frustration towards him, replying with a bullseye emoji and later commenting, “Anger management issues.”
As of now, there isn’t any affirmation whether or not Musk will settle for Stewart’s invitation, however given the continuing on-line exchanges, the potential of an unfiltered face-to-face dialog stays open.
