Late Night host Seth Meyers has continued to take aim at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk‘s “desperate and embarrassing infomercial” for Teslas at the White House, presenting several clips of the former explicitly disparaging electric cars over the past couple of years.
Tesla staged a personal showroom for Trump on the White House lawn on Tuesday, with the president making a show of buying a new Model S Plaid in response to the company’s falling stock prices. Trump’s purchase and promotion of the cars was a deliberate show of support for his close ally and Tesla CEO Musk. As Meyers noted, it also flew in the face of the anti-electric vehicle stance Trump has maintained for years.
“Not only was this flagrantly corrupt,” said Meyers. “But this entire gambit, it all depends on Trump convincing his MAGA supporters to buy Teslas after spending months telling them on the campaign trail, ‘Electric vehicles suck.'”
He then proceeded to play a collection of clips of Trump doing just that, with the now-president claiming that “they don’t go far, they cost a fortune,” and “they don’t work in the cold.”
“Oh yeah, these people definitely sound like they’re gonna buy a Tesla,” Meyers quipped in response to a crowd at a past Trump rally booing electric vehicles.
