Comedian Jon Stewart said President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are in a "pretend fight" in a podcast dropped hours between the two former allies took extraordinary public shots at one another.
Trump and Musk were both benefiting from one another in a big way before their fiery and public falling out that came to a head on Thursday, Stewart argued.
"I mean the Elon/Trump marriage made it infinitely more difficult I think for people that are trying to do what you're doing, which is, you've got the richest man in the world who controls maybe the most powerful media platform in the world, aligning himself as a force amplifier for the most powerful man in the world, the president," Stewart said according to a transcript of a new episode of his podcast during a conversation with CNN reporter and anchor Kaitlan Collins.
Hours after Stewart's remarks on the podcast were published, Trump told reporters on Thursday he has been "disappointed" in the criticisms Musk has leveled at the spending bill, which the billionaire argues is too big and contains too much spending "pork."
Musk responded to Trump on social media minutes after his remarks on Thursday, saying Trump would not have won last November's presidential election without him and suggesting he is "ungrateful" for his help.
Stewart, a frequent critic of Trump, said before the two former allies split publicly that they were a force to be reckoned with in American politics.
"And those two things together, I think, were kind of unstoppable," Stewart said of the dynamic between Trump and Musk before Thursday's war of words. "I think they were wildly anti-American and anti-constitutional, but unstoppable. And now, obviously there's whatever pretend fight they're having."
Stewart called the Musk/Trump relationship "an alliance of benefit." It included the billionaire donating millions to the president's campaign and his heading up a "Department of Government Efficiency."
"And you can see that," Stewart continued. "I mean, we're going to build a golden dome, and, gee, I wonder whose tech company is going to be at the forefront of that?"
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