Elon Musk says he learned a lesson

The comments came after shots were fired near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. The FBI is now investigating what it says appears to be a second assassination attempt on Trump.

Just two months earlier, Trump survived an attempt on his life when a gunman opened fire during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Musk’s post was met with backlash against X.

“If someone shoots Biden or Harris or Walz after two registered Republicans shoot Trump and Musk posts this crazy tweet, we have to consider Musk’s role in any such violence,” said artificial intelligence expert Gary Marcus , in response to Musk’s deleted post. “Elon is not ok.”

Other users condemned the post as “appalling and indefensible”, “irresponsible” and “dangerous”.

Musk is no stranger to sharing controversial remarks about X, and some of his posts have been cited as one of the reasons advertisers have been slow to return to X.

For example, earlier this month, the billionaire deleted an X-post promoting a Tucker Carlson interview with a man accused of being a “Nazi apologist.”

This time, Musk seems to have admitted that he may have gone too far.

Despite initially moving away to delete the comment, Musk later responded to user X who suggested he remove and reword the post because it was being misinterpreted.

“Fair enough. I don’t want to do what they did, not even jokingly,” Musk wrote in response.

Musk later reflected on the episode, saying it taught him a lesson.

“It turns out jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text,” Musk wrote in a later post.

Representatives for Musk, Biden and Harris did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.

Musk endorsed Trump in the 2024 election and publicly criticized both Harris and Biden. Trump also floated the idea of ​​having the billionaire in his government, calling him “smart” and a “brilliant guy.”

Musk has previously expressed interest in serving on a possible government efficiency commission should Trump win the election.