Stephen Colbert touched on Elon Musk’s exit from the Trump White house during his monologue on Monday’s “The Late Show,” and during his commentary he solved one particularly weird mystery about Musk’s White House exit press conference.

“The weirdest, I think maybe the weirdest part of this weird, weird meeting was Elon’s face, because, for some reason, he had a black eye. Oh no, if only someone in the White House had access to makeup,” Colbert joked, referencing, of course, Trump’s suspected application of heavy stage makeup.

“So why? Why the black eye? Who hates who hates Elon Musk enough to punch him in the face? I’m not Sherlock Holmes, but could it be,” Colbert said as he ducked below the camera. Then he popped back up wearing a Sherlock Holmes-style deerstalker cap and holding a pip

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