Stephen Colbert ’s “Late Show” audience booed heartily at the very mention of Elon Musk and his effort to shrink the federal government via the Department of Government Efficiency. As jeers filled the room, Colbert snarked: “That is the sound of Tesla sales plummeting .”

Colbert stated that Musk has been firing people so randomly that the government is now “trying to hire a bunch of them back.” He pointed to the CDC recently emailing 180 fired

In the clip above, Stephen Colbert responds to U.S. Republican Randy Weber's poem praising Elon Musk with a decidedly less complimentary poem of his own. "His claim to fame, hi-tech machines / His only friends, are facist teens," reads Colbert. "With skin the tone of day-old sushi / He's super dumb, and uber douchey."

Stephen Colbert has zero respect for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Neither, he argued, do many Americans. “Turns out, randomly firing a lot of Americans isn’t that popular,” Colbert explained in his monologue Thursday.

Elon Musk ran a unscientific poll on X that revealed how some feel about a proposed end to daylight saving time. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins caught up with DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by President Donald Trump during his address to Congress.