Elmo's mission of kindness and wholesomeness is back in full swing, days after an alleged hack led puppet's X page to post racist remarks and claims about Jeffrey Epstein.

Jon Stewart hosted Elmo on tonight’s show, which was initially supposed to be about the tariffs. Remember those? Trump added a 17% tax to Mexican tomatoes today. But instead, Stewart did an extended riff about Elmo getting radicalized by the manosphere because he is a victim of the Male Loneliness Epidemic. The truth does, in fact, hurt.

Was Elmo hacked? The Sesame Street star published – and deleted – a post on X challenging President Donald Trump to "release the files" with an NSFW message.

After Elmo’s X account was hacked on Sunday night, a series of anti-semitic posts were tweeted and some even targeted US President Donald Trump.

Tuesday briefing: Trump and Putin; ICE’s bond order; Education Department cuts; New Jersey flooding; wildfires; Elmo; and more ICE declared millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings. The Supreme Court cleared the way for Trump to slash the Education Department.

"Elmo was radicalized by the manosphere," the Sesame Street character explained, admitting that he had not actually been hacked

Meanwhile, the White House has been publishing memes featuring AI representations of the President as Superman, which is totally normal behaviour