Stephen Colbert repeatedly dragged Elon Musk during his monologue on Thursday's "The Late Show," joking at one point that "millions of young people" can't stand him — "and those are just his kids." Soon after,

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 .”

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.

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."

"No!" Colbert interjected. "Disruption is when your cable goes out during a storm. This is your cable guy burning your house to the house to the ground between the hours of noon a