Jimmy Kimmel has a few choice words for Elon Musk.
The late-night show host, 54, went ham on the new Twitter owner, 51, on the social media platform after the businessman posted a conspiracy theory about the recent attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul.
Assailant David DePape is said to have assaulted Paul, 82, with a hammer after breaking into the home he shares with the speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Soon after the incident, Hillary Clinton tweeted: “The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories.”
“It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow,” she continued.
Musk then responded in a since-deleted tweet noting: “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye,” while linking to a Santa Monica Observer article.
The report believed that Paul “was drunk” when he was attacked during a fight with a supposed “male prostitute.”
Kimmel was quick to reply to the Tesla CEO’s tweet before it was erased from the platform.
“It has been interesting, over the years, to watch you blossom from the electric car guy into a fully-formed piece of s – – t,” Kimmel penned on Sunday.
When Musk’s tweet was still posted, many fans were shocked that he desired to spread misinformation.
Yael Eisenstat, a vice president of the Anti-Defamation League, said: “When the world’s richest man/owner of this very site himself traffics in conspiracy theories days after claiming to advertisers that he’s going to be a responsible leader, all I can say is: I’m not overreacting by expressing my concerns.”
“Actions always speak louder than words,” she added.
Donald Moynihan, a public policy professor at Georgetown University, explained how he was concerned that Musk would use his new role as Twitter’s head to “amplify conspiracy theories that are destroying American democracy.”
“A big problem in contemporary American politics is that one party has become obsessed with conspiracy theories, encouraging radical responses including anti-democratic actions and violence,” he scribed on Twitter. “Musk will just make the problem worse.”