Chelsea Handler spoke with Kara Swisher at SXSW (by way of Every day Beast) and criticized Elon Musk‘s affect over Donald Trump by asking: “Did anybody vote for Elon Musk to be the president? I imply, can’t we come collectively — Republicans and Democrats — and say we don’t need that. Can’t we agree on that no less than?”

“I don’t know why we are able to’t in some way work out a option to get collectively and no less than have one aim in thoughts to not be, you understand, a Russian asset,” she added.

Shortly after successful final 12 months’s presidential election over Kamala Harris, Trump assigned Musk a process to “dismantle” the U.S. forms by offering outdoors recommendation to the administration from a “Division of Authorities Effectivity.” The acronym DOGE was a nod to the Dogecoin cryptocurrency that has been related to Musk.

Musk claimed final October he might minimize $2 trillion from the federal funds and added in an announcement: “This may ship shockwaves by the system, and anybody concerned in Authorities waste, which is lots of people!”

When Swisher joked that Handler ought to simply date Musk so she will try to restrict his potential management over Trump, the comic quipped: “There’s quite a bit I might do for the nation, however having intercourse with Elon Musk isn’t certainly one of them. I can’t.”

Switching her consideration to vp JD Vance, Handler mentioned she would his worst nightmare as a romantic companion as a result of “these kinds of males that wish to hold ladies at residence and being moms, and you understand, not having a profession, like that’s simply so antiquated and it’s so gradual and it’s so boring.

“I feel the political scenario we’re in is a direct reflection of the truth that males are so scared of ladies,” she added. “Like why are you performing like this if you happen to’re not?… Girls are extra highly effective and extra unbiased than we’ve ever been, and that isn’t going to alter.”