Jimmy Fallon Flags The Ultimate Irony Of Elon Musk's New Role

Lee Moran

Updated November 14, 2024 at 8:37 a.m.·1 min read

Jimmy Fallon joked about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to install billionaire Elon Musk as the head of a new non-governmental unit that will seek to nix red tape and public spending.

Musk’s job-share with former GOP presidential nominee Vivek Ramaswamy in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency will aim “to help cut wasteful government spending,” Fallon noted on Wednesday’s episode of “The Tonight Show.”

“And who knows more about wasting a ton of money than the guy who spent $44 billion buying Twitter?” he zinged.

The value of the social media platform has plummeted since Musk’s purchase in 2022, after which he took it private. Musk sunk a reported $200 million into Trump’s victorious campaign.

Watch Fallon’s monologue here:

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