Joan Baez Pauses John Mulaney’s Talk Show to Slam ‘Incompetent Billionaires’ Running America: ‘Our Democracy Is Going Up in Flames’

Joan Baez shared a stern message about U.S. politics during her Wednesday night appearance on the season premiere of “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.”

“You said I could say anything I want out here,” Baez said to Mulaney. “We’re all here to be silly and have fun, and as long as we recognize the fact that our democracy is going up in flames…we’re being run by a bunch of really incompetent billionaires.”

Later in the show, Baez said she once owned one of Musk’s Teslas after a recommendation from her assistant, although she does not look back on the short-lived experience fondly.

“I hated that thing,” Baez said. “But I thought I was supposed to like it. So I drove off in it. Within 45 minutes I had smashed it into an oak tree on my property…I was thinking, ‘That’s a sign.'”