Last week, “The Daily Show,” along with every other newscast, had to pivot quickly when the Donald Trump and Elon Musk feud exploded online. “There’s no rehearsal,” Desi Lydic told TheWrap of days like that.

Michael Kosta, who was on deck that day, had been prepping a show around Trump’s latest appointee — 22-year-old Thomas Fugate, a recent college grad — who’d been tapped to head up the nation’s war on terrorism.

All that was scrapped as Musk blasted Trump and his “big beautiful bill” as the president then threatened to cut the billionaire’s lucrative government contracts. Kosta rolled with the punches in a quippy segment, referring to the two battling public figures as “the leader of the free world” and “the breeder of the free world.”

Michael Kosta at “The Daily Show” FYC Event

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