Bill Maher had fun to the virtual president of President Donald Trump and the Elon Musk during the last episode of Real time With a reference to the sprawling legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
At the top of the Friday episode of the HBO series, the actor launched things by thanking his audience to “put a brave face because I know that you are probably upset” because of “what happened with Elon and Donald Trump” last week.
Maher later said that he was not going to “pretend that I can really think of something other than the asset, Elon” Rift, comparing their conflict to the Godzilla against Kong Film franchise. “When you think about it, the richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world is like Godzilla against King Kong, if Godzilla was on Ketamine and King Kong had a comb,” he said.
He then joked by saying that the two were “so close, it was like Brangelina or Bennifer”, referring to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, old respective relationships. Maher continued jokingly about the details of their virtual quarrel, joking: “What happened this week, it has been preparing for some time, OK, people.”
Trump and Musk started fighting online on Thursday after Tesla’s CEO openly criticized the Big Bill of the Republican Party. “I don’t mind that Elon turns against me, but he should have done it months ago,” said President Trump on Truth Social, before the two start going back and forth on distinct social platforms, including Musk’s X.
“What put it on the edge is that, you know, Elon came there to reduce the government’s bloating and all that, then they have this big bill which is nothing other than the bloating of the government, which Elon tweeted,” he said. “He said that it was a disgusting abomination, then Trump said:” Well, he has Trump’s disturbance syndrome “, then Elon said:” Well, your prices will cause an erection – a recession “, that’s what I meant.”
Maher Addressed Musk Alleging That Trump’s Name Was in the Epstein Files, Adding, “And now this is just a war that is going back and fortth, and back and forth, and the Stakes Are So High Becuse the Winner Faces Blake Lively,” He Said, Refrming to Lively ‘ It ends with us Director who ignited after having filed a complaint against Baldoni for sexual harassment and an alleged effort coordinated to destroy her reputation, according to the file obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.
While Trump and Musk started their virtual quarrel at the end of this week, progress in the case of Lively and Baldoni came on Tuesday when the judge supervising the case judged that she could not refuse emotional distress complaints against the actor at a later stage if she chooses to abandon them.
In a press release, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, lawyers for Lively, said that their client abandoned certain complaints because “they are no longer necessary” and that it will continue to continue emotional damages thanks to other complaints in their trial “, including sexual harassment and reprisals.
