The undeniable glee of late-night hosts watching the ‘nuclear’ Trump-Musk breakup

Late-night hosts are seizing on the implosion of the Trump-Musk bromance.

It’s the social-media fight that is impossible to escape – and for late-night hosts, it is comedy gold.

U.S. President Donald Trump and the world’s richest man Elon Musk are in the midst of a very public friendship breakup , and there was only one word that TV comedians wanted to use to describe the fallout from this powerful uncoupling: “nuclear.”

The usual late-night suspects of Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert could not contain their joy at the chance to showcase the post-for-post hits that Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk took on each other over the last day, dissecting a relationship that had been predicted

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