Elon Musk is stepping back from running his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with the Tesla CEO attending a deeply strange press conference with Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week. On Monday night, The Late Show‘s Stephen Colbert unpacked the real elephant in the room: Musk’s black eye, which he blamed on rough-housing with his son, X Æ A-12.
“The weirdest part of this weird, weird meeting was Elon’s face, because for some reason he had a black eye,” says Colbert in the clip above. “Oh no! If only someone in the White House had access to makeup!”
But Colbert wasn’t convinced the tiny suspect was X, instead asking the audience to reconsider while wearing Sherlock Holmes props.
“Why the black eye? Who hates Elon Musk enough to punch him in the face? I’m not Sherlock Holmes but could it be…EVERYONE?”
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