Jon Stewart has roasted Elon Musk as ‘one of America’s least efficient government workers’ as his time in the White House came to an end.

The talk show host laid into the world’s richest man in a blistering monologue on The Daily Show on Monday, saying Donald Trump has ‘broken this poor man’.

‘Elon spent $300 million of his own money to get Trump elected, irreparably damaged his personal brand and almost all of his business, and is clearly suffering some kind of issue,’ the comedian said.

He referenced a New York Times report last week alleging Musk took a cocktail of drugs including ketamine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms during the 2024 presidential election campaign.

The report claimed the Tesla founder took so much ketamine it impacted his bladder, with Stewart saying his time heading DOGE left him a shell of his former self. 

‘Let this be a lesson to Elon and anybody in Trump’s orbit: whatever your passionate political belief or whatever your ideology is, you will go from reaching for mine stars to dissolving in a puddle of your own urine and shame,’ Stewart said. 

The host’s monologue also took aim at Musk’s poor relationship with his transgender child, saying he was ‘starting a fight club with your kid just to be able to feel because Trump… Trump doesn’t believe in anything, man.’ 

John Stewart roasted Elon Musk as ‘one of America’s least efficient government workers’ as his time in the White House came to an end

The talk show host laid into the world’s richest man on Monday’s The Daily Show monologue, saying that President Trump has ‘broken this poor man’ and devastated his businesses as Musk’s five-month stint leading DOGE concluded 

Musk left the White House in controversial fashion as he slammed President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ in a media blitz as he departed DOGE. 

He has claimed to have saved over $100 billion in the federal government’s budget, but Trump’s legislation is set to raise the national deficit by over $2 trillion, with Musk saying Trump had ‘undermined’ his work. 

Stewart ridiculed the way that Musk had fawned over Trump in his early days in the administration, as he went from a ‘tech titan given a mandate to move fast and crush the deep state’ to a ‘guy who had a bad night in a Nashville bar he can’t remember.’ 

‘He’s leaving his job to make more family with his time,’ he quipped, pointing to Musk’s ever-growing number of children. 

As he brought up a picture of Musk jumping up and down on stage by Trump at a campaign rally and then to an image of Musk with a black eye at his final Oval Office press conference, Stewart continued: ‘Look at this poor b***ard. 

‘He’s looking beaten down. He’s got that look on his face that I imagine his employees normally have — black eye, 1000-yards stare. This dude has seen some s***.’ 

Stewart showed an image of Musk with a black eye at his Oval Office farewell, saying: ‘Look at this poor b***ard. He’s looking beaten down. He’s got that look on his face that I imagine his employees normally have — black eye, 1000-yards stare. This dude has seen some s***’ 

Musk said in his first media interviews after leaving the White House that he was going back to his multiple businesses ’24/7.’ 

At an event on Thursday for his space travel company SpaceX, Musk unveiled bold plans for his starships to soon colonize Mars. 

Branding it the next phase in space exploration, Musk said SpaceX aims to launch its first crewed Starship mission to the Red Planet in 2026, with a Tesla Optimus robot on board.

‘Launching two years later, we would be sending humans, assuming the first missions are successful,’ said Musk. 

But while the SpaceX event saw Musk confidently speak of the future, his interview with CBS on Tuesday got awkward as the billionaire bristled at questions on his history with Trump. 

CBS’ David Pogue first queried Musk on whether his businesses had been impacted by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and then asked the South African-born Musk if he supported Trump’s attempts to ban foreign students. 

‘Yeah. I mean, I think we wanna stick to, you know, the subject of the day, which is, like, spaceships, as opposed to, you know, presidential policy,’ Musk responded.

Pogue pushed backing telling the billionaire that he had been told ‘anything is good’ as far as an interview subject.

‘No, well – no,’ Musk replied.

But throughout the sit-down, Musk complained that DOGE became blamed for anything unpopular the Trump Administration was doing.

‘Yeah, I think … what was starting to happen was that, like, it’s a bit unfair because, like, DOGE became the whipping boy for everything,’ Musk said. ‘So, if there was some cut, real or imagined, everyone would blame DOGE.’