Late Night host Seth Meyers has continued to take aim at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk‘s “determined and embarrassing infomercial” for Teslas at the White House, presenting a number of clips of the previous explicitly disparaging electrical vehicles over the previous couple of years.
Tesla staged a private showroom for Trump on the White Home garden on Tuesday, with the president making a present of shopping for a brand new Model S Plaid in response to the corporate’s falling stock prices. Trump’s buy and promotion of the vehicles was a deliberate present of assist for his shut ally and Tesla CEO Musk. As Meyers famous, it additionally flew within the face of the anti-electric automobile stance Trump has maintained for years.
“Not solely was this flagrantly corrupt,” mentioned Meyers. “However this complete gambit, all of it depends upon Trump convincing his MAGA supporters to purchase Teslas after spending months telling them on the marketing campaign path, ‘Electrical automobiles suck.'”
He then proceeded to play a set of clips of Trump doing simply that, with the now-president claiming that “they do not go far, they break the bank,” and “they do not work within the chilly.”
“Oh yeah, these individuals undoubtedly sound like they’re gonna purchase a Tesla,” Meyers quipped in response to a crowd at a previous Trump rally booing electrical automobiles.
