Jimmy Kimmel Burns Elon Musk to the Ground Over ‘Propaganda Puppet’ Tweet: ‘At Least My Children Like Me’

Jimmy Kimmel knew his emotional post-election monologue would get a rise out of allies of President-Elect Donald Trump, and he fired back at their mocking.

During his monologue on Thursday (at around the 3:40 mark), Kimmel announced that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and owner of Twitter/X, tweeted that Kimmel was “an insufferable nonsense propaganda puppet.” That opened up the floor to a brutal check by Kimmel, who started his response by saying: “At least my children like me.” He continued:

I take issue with that. The guy who paid people a million dollars a day to vote for Trump is calling me a “propaganda puppet.” Listen, Kermit, you bought Twitter. You bought a social media platform that is literally a propaganda machine. Let me tell you something —  if I spent two weeks trying to come up with a four-word description of Elon Musk, I don’t think I could do better than “unsufferable nonsense propaganda puppet.”

This guy says The New York Times is propaganda, The Washington Post is propaganda, The Atlantic is propaganda, NPR is propaganda, “AP stands for Associated Propaganda” — good one, Broseph.

After a quick announcement/joke that he had been working on a secret “Insufferable Nonsense Propaganda Puppet” puppet show, Kimmel continued:

These guys, I guess they’re not capable of shame, but it’s so embarrassing. Hey, Elon, let me read you what your buddy Donald Trump said about you before you gave him $100 million: “When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless and tell me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it,” and you know what he means by “beg,” I think, right?

But I’m sure you guys will be great together now. I’m sure his little hand will fit nicely in your sock hole.

Watch the whole monologue via Jimmy Kimmel Live on YouTube.