Billionaire Elon Musk raised eyebrows after he was challenged to go on The Daily Show and talk about DOGE with host Jon Stewart and said he'd do it—but only "if the show airs unedited."
Musk made the announcement after Stewart spent part of his recent program criticizing DOGE's drastic federal spending cuts, a speech that caught the attention of the account @FarzadMedia, which then shared a lengthy video post titled “Elon Musk Should Go On Jon Stewart’s Daily Show."
The account owner said, in part:
“If Elon Mask actually went on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and talked about DOGE for an hour, Jon Stewart and Elon Musk, the amount of headway and the amount of progress we would get as a country to actually get a lot of those things codified and actually propagate through the entirety of the United States, not just at a federal level, not just at the executive branch but through Congress, through all the local governments, I think it would go a really, really long way.”
Musk saw this and replied:
"I will do it if the show airs unedited."
You can see his post below.
The Daily Show later responded that it would be "delighted."
People are chomping at the bit to see Stewart take down Musk.
And several users even brought out the perfect GIF of Stewart to react to the potential showdown.
DOGE’s so-called “wall of savings” and its list of canceled contracts feature many striking claims of cost-cutting. However, there’s a major issue: many of these supposed savings aren’t actual savings at all. Instead, they involve negotiated agreements with established government contractors for potential future services.
These agreements, known as blanket purchase agreements (BPAs), function more like a catalog of possible purchases rather than confirmed orders. When presented alongside genuine orders for goods and services on DOGE’s “wall of savings,” they create a misleading and exaggerated picture of government spending.
The “wall of savings” includes more than 60 listed “contracts” clearly labeled as BPAs on the DOGE site, while numerous others are identified as BPAs in federal records — often recognizable due to their high, rounded figures. An analysis by NBC News found that over $1 billion in the value of canceled contracts on DOGE’s list came from BPAs.
While DOGE’s records acknowledge that canceling BPAs doesn’t yield immediate savings, they fail to clarify that the government may not have spent any money on these agreements in the first place.
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