As expected, Elon Musk responded to Mike Myers’ ‘brutal’ portrayal of Trump this week in another Trump-related Saturday Night Live spoof.
Elon Musk’s relationship with Saturday Night Live has been somewhat tricky. In May 2021, he triumphantly hosted the show, but less than a year later, he criticized it, saying in an April post on X that it was “so rarely funny these days.”
However, since he became a pivotal figure in the Trump administration as the chairman of the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk has been a frequent ‘target’ of the show’s skits, and SNL icon Mike Myers has taken up the mantle of portraying the billionaire.
He has sent numerous brief replies to his millions of followers, expressing his displeasure with this new imitation, and it appears that the most recent sketch with Myers has agitated him once more.
In the aforementioned farce, Myers played Musk, who was introducing a new Tesla car they called the ‘Model V’. With its world-first self-vandalizing mechanism, the car can destroy its own headlights, slit its own tires, and utilize artificial intelligence to spray graffiti on its sides. This new model is a response to the recent mass vandalism of the electric car company’s vehicles.
Before Trump interrupts, Myers adds that although he is “really smart,” the new mass tariffs imposed by the president “sound really dumb.”
Musk reacted as follows to a snippet of the X skit:
“SNL hasn’t been funny in a long time. They are their own parody.”
This view is similar to what Musk has said before, but it also comes from the man who was disappointed that his “woke James Bond” skit was turned down because it had “become reality.”
One reply to Musk’s post concurred with his approach, arguing that the skit was “not funny by any stretch of the imagination,” adding that it was “just plain mean and fueled by hatred.”
Others aren’t quite on the same page though, pointing out Musk’s seeming inability to take a joke. “Boo hoo crybaby,” wrote one user, adding “did Mike Myers hurt your feelings” with a bunch of laughing emojis.
Another shared a picture of a cat with tears in its eyes and wrote, “Stop laughing guys, it’s not funny.”
“DIdn’t you host a few years ago?” pointed out one user in a quoted post. “You just don’t like that they made fun of you.”
Even though Elon Musk’s tenure in government may be coming to an end quickly after it was announced that he was leaving his position as head of DOGE, Myers will probably continue to make fun of him on Saturday Night Live, which means that Musk will almost certainly continue to retaliate online.
