Late-Night Hosts React to Trump and Musk’s Messy Breakup

Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: YouTube (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)

Days like yesterday remind us what late-night TV is for. From the moment Trump began talking about his long-simmering split with his “Dark MAGA” BFF Elon Musk during a press conference with German chancellor Friedrich Merz, jokes began pouring in on social media, and anyone who pays even cursory attention to the institution that is late-night media knew that the Jimmys...