Colbert pointed to a tweet in which Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he had “Big News.”
“Talked to the DOGE team,” Duffy wrote, referring to tech billionaire Elon Musk’s controversial Department of Government Efficiency initiative. “They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system.”
Colbert joked that he might not be flying anytime soon.
“I’ve also got big news: I just bought an Amtrak rail pass,” he replied. “Trains very rarely associated with the words ‘plunge’ and ‘plummet’.”
Musk added that his team would be making “safety upgrades” to the air traffic control system.
“Great,” Colbert sarcastically replied. “Because when I think of Elon Musk, I think ‘air safety.’”
With that, he rolled footage of one of Musk’s SpaceX rockets exploding.
Check it out in his Thursday night monologue:
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