Elon Musk responds to SNL skit about him featuring Mike Myers

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The skit by Saturday Night Live features fellow Canadian and comedian Mike Myers, who plays the Tesla founder

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has responded to a skit poking fun at him on Saturday Night Live, in which fellow Canadian and comedian Mike Myers plays the Tesla founder.

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The show’s most recent episode aired on Saturday night, featuring a parody of the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The real-life event occurred the day before, on Friday, Feb. 28. It ended with Zelenskyy being asked to leave after a heated conversation with Trump and U.S. Vice-President JD Vance.

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In the skit, the actors playing Trump and Vance berate the actor playing Zelenskyy, calling him “disrespectful” for not wearing a suit to the meeting. The scene is interrupted by Myers, playing Musk, who enters while revving a chainsaw and mockingly aiming it at Trump’s head before placing it on the floor.

Myers is wearing a t-shirt with a blazer over it, which Trump calls “very official and respectful” — in contrast to his comments about the similar outfit worn by Zelenskyy.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy argue in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 28, 2025. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

“Donald, what are you doing in my office?” Myers asks Trump’s character. “You know I’m the president now, right? I’m kidding… Maybe not.”

The conversation turns to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the department that Musk is heading that has been responsible for numerous cuts to America’s federal workforce.

“I really enjoy everything you’re doing with DOGE, Elon,” says Trump’s character.

“They’re saying I’m firing people with no cause. I do have cause. It’s ’cause I feel like it,” Myers responds in character, and then laughs maniacally. He adds: “We are firing the nonessential employees, like air traffic controllers.”

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“Yes, and sure some of the planes are going to land upside down,” replied Trump’s character — a reference to a Delta Air Lines flight that crashed at Toronto’s Pearson Airport in February — “but then the luggage falls right into your lap and you’re ready to go. It’s efficient.”

Musk himself did not take kindly to the skit. In a post on X, he replied to a video of it.

“Humor fails when it lies,” he wrote on Sunday.

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Mike Myers wears ‘Canada is not for sale’ shirt

At the end of the episode of SNL, the show’s guests, singer Tate McRae (who is also Canadian) and comedians Shane Gillis and Myers, appeared on stage to say farewell to the crowd.

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Mike Myers wears a ‘Canada Is Not for Sale’ shirt on ‘Saturday Night Live’ on March 1, 2025. Photo by NBC

Myers wore a t-shirt that said “Canada is not for sale” with a Canadian flag in the middle. He pulled open a vest he was wearing over top to show off the message.

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This comes amid tensions between the U.S. and Canada over remarks made by Trump about the country becoming the 51st state. Trump is also set to implement a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods imported into the U.S. starting on Tuesday.

Elon Musk’s daughter says her Canadian patriotism has grown

Musk’s estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, posted on social media platform Threads about how her patriotism for Canada has grown since Trump’s comments about turning Canada into the 51st state.

“I’m (not going to lie) this Canadian ’51st state’ s— has upped my Canadian patriotism by about 5000000%” she wrote on Threads on Feb. 21.

Wilson, who is trans, called her father “cruel” for his treatment of her when she was younger in a 2024 interview, NBC News reported. She said he would harass her for being feminine and yell at her because her voice was too high. Wilson’s mother was Musk’s first wife, Canadian author Justine Musk. They shared custody of Wilson in Los Angeles after their divorce in 2008, per NBC News.

In 2022, Wilson filed papers to have her name officially changed in California. “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” she said in the filing, according the NBC News.

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“Canada will be made a state when hell freezes over,” wrote Wilson in another post on Threads on Feb. 20.

“The U.S is entering a trade war it’s not gonna win with one of its closest allies, this is so unbelievably … stupid. I can feel my neurons dripping onto my skull like wax every time I hear this dumb … rhetoric.”

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