Bill Maher said all he could think about during the Real Time episode on Friday, June 6, was “the Trump/Elon thing” — i.e. the escalating feud between President Donald Trump and former DOGE head Elon Musk .

“When you think about it, the richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world, it’s like Godzilla versus King Kong if Godzilla was on ketamine and King Kong had a combover,” Maher said on the HBO show Friday. “I mean, these guys were so close. It was like Brangelina or Bennifer. No, you know that. Elon and Trump — they had their own couple name: Elump.”

Maher recapped the drama so far. After stepping back from his post leading the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk criticized Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act , calling it a “massive, outrageous, pork

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