From political figures to entertainment stars, public personalities haven't held back their thoughts on this high-profile falling out. Join us as we explore the most notable celebrity reactions to this headline-making feud between two of the world's most controversial figures.
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00:00Secretary of Treasury Scott Besson is a good friend of mine and a very even-handed guy.
00:04He and Elon got into a physical altercation.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:09And today we're taking a look at what well-known public figures have had to say
00:13about the ugly, painfully public fallout between U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.
00:19I did not say I told you so. I said I love being proven right because I was.
00:25Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:27Any quick reaction on what's going on with Elon Musk and President Trump on Twitter right now?
00:32Oh man, the girls are fighting, aren't they?
00:35You know, I would say that this was something that was a long time coming.
00:41The representative for New York's 14th Congressional District hasn't been shy to voice her feelings
00:46about the president or his ex-bestie over the years.
00:49At the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC, blasted Trump,
00:55saying that if elected, he would, quote, sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining
01:00his own pockets and greasing the palms of his Wall Street friends, end quote.
01:05And I, for one, am tired of hearing about how a two-bit union buster thinks of himself as
01:13more of a patriot than the woman who fights every single day to lift working people out
01:21from under the boots of greed, traveling on our way of life.
01:26So when approached by a Spectrum news reporter asking for her thoughts on Trump and Musk's
01:31headline-making feud, Ocasio-Cortez responded simply by quoting a popular internet meme.
01:36The congresswoman elaborated by suggesting that the bust-up was easily predicted and that,
01:41quote, these two huge egos were not long for being together in this world as friends.
01:46I think this breakup we've been seeing a long time coming, but we'll see what the impacts
01:51are of it legislatively.
01:53Jack White.
02:01The former White Stripes frontman and guitarist has come to proverbial blows with the president
02:06on more than one occasion.
02:08Trump first aroused White's ire in 2016 after using his song Seven Nation Army without permission
02:13in his campaign materials.
02:15When Trump's 2024 campaign once again used the song without asking,
02:19Jack and his bandmate-slash-ex-wife Meg filed a copyright infringement lawsuit, which they
02:24later decided to drop.
02:34Upon learning about the Trump-Musk fiasco, the rocker took to Instagram to air his grievances.
02:40In a no-holds-barred post, White humorously referred to Trump, Musk, and disgraced rapper
02:45Kanye West as, quote, Nazi clowns collapsing under the weight of their own unchecked egos.
02:56Jake Paul.
02:57POV.
02:58One hundred days left before President Trump delivers another knockout.
03:02Got a good stance, Loki.
03:03He got a jab, I think.
03:04That's pretty good.
03:06We're not messing with this guy.
03:07This celebrity influencer has seemingly done it all.
03:10From a Disney kid, to a massively successful YouTuber, to a gimmick-embracing boxer, it's
03:15inarguable that Paul has had a powerful knack for keeping himself in the spotlight.
03:20He's also flirted with politics.
03:21In 2023, Paul seems to endorse Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, before
03:27vocally shifting his support to Trump after the latter's 2024 assassination attempt.
03:32Do I think Donald Trump is a perfect human being?
03:35No.
03:35I don't think anybody on this planet is a perfect human being, myself included.
03:39Don't judge people off of a character that the media has portrayed them to be.
03:44Because Democrats control 90% of the U.S. media.
03:48So they will paint a picture to y'all, and that picture is what they want you to see.
03:53However, that hasn't stopped him from criticizing the president over his conduct in the wake of
03:58his spat with Elon Musk.
04:00Said Paul, in a post to the Musk-owned social media platform X, quote, Elon and Trump are
04:05great, but they need to work together and not make America look bad.
04:09I'm not concerned with Donald Trump's character flaws or what he's done in the past.
04:14What I'm concerned with is how good of a president is he?
04:17Because that is his job, and that is what's going to affect the people of this nation.
04:21Oh, Bill Belichick, so hard to work with.
04:24He's a dick to all of his players, but yet he's the most winningest coach in all of
04:29the NFL.
04:30Jon Stewart.
04:31He's leaving.
04:34He's leaving his job to make more family with his time.
04:40If you know anything about this comedian-slash-firebrand political commentator, then you'll likely
04:46have surmised that he's not exactly a fan of President Trump's, or Mr. Musk's for
04:51that matter.
04:52Having hosted the long-running news satire program The Daily Show from 1999 to 2015, Stewart
04:58returned by popular demand in 2024.
05:00He went from tech titan, giving a mandate to move fast and crush the deep state, to guy
05:11who had a bad night in Nashville, boy, you can't remember, are you?
05:15He's got that look like, has anyone seen my shoes?
05:19Anchoring the show one night a week, Stewart's rants have often gone viral and tend to focus
05:24on Trump's unconventional and often unprecedented use of executive power.
05:28However, said Stewart on the feud specifically, quote, it must be hard for the right to see
05:33how petty and petulant these two man-babies are, and how they wield their power in vindictive
05:39and capricious manners when they don't get exactly their way, and the damage that that
05:44behavior causes.
05:45I mean, you can't blame them.
05:47This whole project was cutting money from the government, trying to find efficiencies
05:49and sneaking a Trojan horse in the back door and stealing all our data.
05:53But Trump is spending $200 billion more than the previous administration did in this amount
05:59of time, and creating a deficit-exploding, big, beautiful bill that is the antithesis of
06:04everything Musk said he was trying to do.
06:07Kanye West.
06:08But some more sober minds are calling for a ceasefire.
06:12Kanye West reacting to the feud today, posting,
06:15Here's a thought experiment for you.
06:30What if you traveled 10 years back in time to 2015 and told people that Kanye West, now
06:36identifying as a neo-Nazi, was attempting to mediate a spat between President Donald Trump
06:43and Elon Musk?
06:44Well, chances are you probably have some ideas, but in any case, that's the situation we now
06:49find ourselves in.
06:50I mean, Kanye.
06:51Bro, no!
06:52No!
06:54He's like the kid, you know, with dueling parents.
06:57Who gets custody of Kanye?
06:59Exactly.
06:59Not us.
07:01They have.
07:02The two of them can figure that out.
07:04I mean, we all saw this coming.
07:07Shortly after the news broke, the controversial musician took to X to post the following,
07:11Quote, bros, please, no, hug emoji, we love you both so much, end quote.
07:18While it remains unclear which we, the rapper, was referring to, public efforts by West, as
07:23well as billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, have not appeared to bring the pair
07:27any closer together.
07:28Yay has entered the chat.
07:31It's Kanye, Elon, and Trump.
07:34The easiest game of merry, f***, kill ever.
07:39Randy Quaid.
07:40Trump trumpets readily, and it's time to heed the call.
07:46The framers have been framed.
07:49The people disarmed.
07:50Conservative voices are silenced in the schools by anarchists left unmasked.
07:57Merry Christmas is greeted cheerlessly, even condemned.
08:00This prolific actor, in between numerous personal scandals, which include nearly being deported
08:05from Canada, has been a vocal Trump supporter since his first presidential campaign.
08:10In fact, Quaid was so vocal in his view that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, that
08:15the president retweeted some of his posts at that time.
08:18Oh, glory is being ripped to shreds by fakers and phonies and bullies and liars who want
08:27to destroy our president and redefine the sovereignty of the Supreme Court.
08:32Quaid took to X to praise both men for what he saw as their, quote, transparency, before
08:53veering, almost impressively off-topic, to bash his brother Dennis, calling him a, quote,
08:58very bad person and a liar, as well as a, quote, pedestrian actor.
09:02Randy doesn't like me to talk about him and his, what's going on with him.
09:07All I can say is that I really love my brother, and I miss my brother.
09:11And I will say this, you know, Randy could have, like, a great third act.
09:19Rob Schneider.
09:20Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
09:25Because here's the thing, I know the guy, you know, I don't know him well, but, like,
09:29you know, I'm the only person you're ever going to be in the same room with who made
09:33a movie with Donald Trump.
09:35You know, Home Alone 2.
09:37A three-time Emmy nominee for his early 90s tenure on Saturday Night Live, comedian and
09:43filmmaker Schneider has increasingly come under fire for controversial remarks he's
09:47made in recent years.
09:48These include, but certainly aren't limited to, his support of anti-vaccine activism and
09:53a perceived bashing of the LGBTQ plus community.
09:56The foundation did not provide details about the jokes made by the comedian at the event,
10:02but attendees have told CBC News that Schneider's set included jokes at the expense of
10:07transgender people and about COVID-19 vaccinations.
10:10In a statement, the foundation says, we do not condone, accept, endorse, or share Mr. Schneider's
10:17positions.
10:17The vocally conservative Schneider, whose frequent posting to X often represents his viewpoints,
10:23initially endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president before switching his support to
10:27Trump.
10:28On X, Schneider seemed torn about Trump and Musk's feud, saying that, quote,
10:32uh, homicidal Democrats threatened Musk's life repeatedly for the last half a year and
10:38he worked for months, end quote.
10:40He also posted what appeared to be a poem encouraging Musk to breathe and reminding him that, quote,
10:46you are loved.
10:48Stephen King.
10:49The last time I was here, I had a president who had just given me a National Medal of the
10:54Arts thing, which we argued over.
10:57Yeah.
10:58And now we've got a president who blocked me on Twitter.
11:01A veritable master of horror and post-apocalyptic fiction, even beloved author King could likely
11:07never have imagined the current political situation we find ourselves in.
11:11It's fitting, then, that King has long been a vocal Trump detractor, signing a letter in
11:152016 that condemned his presidential candidacy, end quote, the rise of a political candidate who
11:21deliberately appeals to the basest and most violent elements in society, end quote.
11:26What did you do to that good man that hurt his feelings so much that he felt the only
11:31way to defend himself was through your harsh and hurtful words, was to block you on Twitter?
11:38I might have said he had his head somewhere where a certain yoga position would be necessary
11:44to get it there.
11:46When the news broke that Musk and Trump wanted nothing to do with each other, the author seemed
11:50nonplussed, but not without good reason, describing the situation as, quote,
11:54a couple of billionaires having a hissy little cat fight.
11:57King shrugged the feud off by saying that, quote, the world actually has problems.
12:02Have you ever blocked anybody?
12:04Yes, I blocked Donald Trump.
12:07You blocked Trump?
12:09I did.
12:09The whole administration?
12:11No, actually, I blocked Mike Pence, too.
12:15Steve Bannon.
12:16You know, the president was more than kind to Elon, to bring him in, to treat him like
12:22family, to have his family at Mar-a-Lago, he and his son.
12:25President Trump gave him total access, total support.
12:28The doge effort was very supportive.
12:29I was a big supporter of deconstructing the administrative state.
12:33And, you know, what we found out is that he hasn't found, he didn't find any fraud.
12:38Breitbart News co-founder Bannon has been one of the 47th president's staunchest allies
12:43over the years, even serving as CEO for his 2016 presidential campaign, and following that
12:49as senior counselor to the president for a few months in 2017.
12:52The love has gone both ways.
12:54When Bannon was arrested in 2024 on charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money
13:00laundering, Trump granted him a lifeline in the form of a presidential pardon.
13:04Bannon has since emerged as one of Musk's harshest critics since the latter's dismissal
13:09from the White House, encouraging Trump to investigate the billionaire's alleged drug
13:13use and even suggesting that he should be deported to South Africa.
13:17You don't have someone there that may have a major drug issue, that may have a major
13:20relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, that may not be a legal citizen.
13:24Those are the three investigations that I think have to happen right away.
13:27His drug use is outlined in the New York Times, his involvement with the Chinese Communist
13:31Party that's been outlined by the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.
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13:48Vivian Wilson.
13:51Let's start there.
13:52Well, if you put two men of that variety into a room together and force them to collaborate
13:58when both of them are very, um, how do I say this joke?
14:01Divas.
14:02No.
14:03Egomaniacal man-children.
14:05Well, yes.
14:05Thin-skinned narcissists.
14:07Well, yes, but, um...
14:08Power-hungry thin-skinned narcissist.
14:11Oh, you're not stopping, are you?
14:11Wikipedia describes Wilson as an American social media personality and model.
14:16She also happens to be the estranged daughter of Elon Musk and his first wife, Canadian author
14:22Justine.
14:23After coming out as transgender in 2020, she gradually began to cut off all contact with
14:28her famous father, and in 2022, legally took her mother's maiden name.
14:33In the court petition, Wilson expressly conveyed her wishes to no longer have anything to do
14:38with her father in any way, shape, or form.
14:40It is basically a matter of time, and we saw that matter of time end, um, and you know
14:46what I did during that day?
14:47What?
14:48I did not give a f***.
14:49Um, no, when that happened, it was like an hour before I had scheduled a, uh, stream
14:54where I was supposed to talk about Eurovision with this drag queen who I love named Maxi
14:58Rambo.
14:59Shout out.
15:00In an exclusive interview with Teen Vogue, Wilson was asked for her thoughts on her father's
15:04political blowout.
15:05Over iMessage, she responded with a meme of Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants, and simply
15:11asked if that would be sufficient.
15:13Which celeb reaction had you reaching for your popcorn?
15:16Be sure to let us know in the comments below.
15:18Meanwhile, some people in MAGA world are so freaked out by this breakup that they've chosen
15:23to respond in denial.