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To help the audience picture the number, Kimmel pointed out that if you counted to a trillion out loud, you'd still be counting in the year 33,736, and a stack of the equivalent in hundred-dollar bills would climb 700 miles high. With that money, he said, Musk could buy "every NFL team, every MLB team, every NBA team, every Wendy's, every Target, the Beatles' catalog, Nike, Macy's, and every Hyundai Elantra ever made," and still have $260 billion left.
Then he turned to the part that got the boos. Tesla reported roughly $12.58 billion in U.S. income over the three years ending 2025 and paid about $48 million in federal income tax, an effective rate near 0.4%, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. In 2025 alone it paid $0 on nearly $5.7 billion in U.S. income. Musk, who was born in South Africa and moved to the U.S. in the mid-1990s, has spent years backing stricter enforcement and deportations of immigrants in the country illegally.
"Sure seems like an immigrant who's been stealing from us to me," Kimmel said. The audience let him have it. Full clip at the link below. đź”—
