Kimmel Hits Back At Elon Musk In Monologue, Responds To Conservative Criticism Of Tesla Comments
deadline.comElon Musk called Jimmy Kimmel “such an unfunny jerk” on X after the comedian poked fun at Tesla’s recent misfortune Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “Tesla stock is way down, almost disastrously so,” Kimmel said Wednesday to cheers from the live audience. “People have been vandalizing Tesla vehicles, new Tesla vehicles.
Please, don’t vandalize, don’t ever vandalize Tesla vehicles.” Kimmel delivered that last bit with a hint of sarcasm in his voice, which raised the ire of Musk and conservative pundits today.
So tonight, Kimmel went back at Musk, Tesla and the billionaire’s conservative supporters. “Tesla is not having a good week,” Kimmel said in his monologue. “Today they issued a recall of nearly all 46,000 of their Cybertrucks.
That’s the eighth Cybertruck recall since they came out in November of 2023. It’s 15 months — 8 recalls. “I mentioned last night multiple Teslas were burned at a Tesla facility in Las Vegas.
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