"Irresponsible": White House slams Musk's comment on Trump assassination attempt

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

5 hours ago


The White House on Monday criticized Elon Musk's now-deleted post that questioned why former President Trump has recently faced two apparent assassination attempts while President Biden and Vice President Harris have not.

The big picture: After Sunday's apparent attempt on Trump's life, Musk wrote on his X platform in a since-removed post, "And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔."

The billionaire entrepreneur initially resisted calls online to delete the post. He responded to one request to reconsider his comment, saying, "No one has even tried to do so is the point I'm making and no one will."

He responded to another request to delete and reword with, "Fair enough. I don't want to do what they have done, even in jest."

Musk eventually deleted the post and tried to claim it was a joke.

What they're saying: "As President Biden and Vice President Harris said after yesterday's disturbing news, 'there is no place for political violence or for any violence ever in our country,' and 'we all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence,'" White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/09/16/elon-musk-trump-biden-assassination-attempt

[Autumn]

1. The government need to pull his contracts

[tavernier]

2. That Elon.

Sure hope he can get some nights in at the Comedy Club. He’s such a jokester.

What is wrong with this guy? He has mentally deteriorated so rapidly in the past few years.

[Aussie105]

3. Did Elon really want equivalency?

You know, two attempts on Trump should be balanced out by two on Biden or Harris?



Time to say Elon.

[onetexan]

4. Using words like IRRESPONSIBLE doesn't do crap

The condemnation needs to be swift and hard so this kind of dangerous rhetoric is not mimicked. This jackass is also a danger to the US. Revoke all his contracts & keep him on FBI watch. We all know Musk leans RW & with authoritarians the world.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. See this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143308327

Revoke all his contracts & keep him on FBI watch.

Remember these two (from Boeing Starliner fame)?



SpaceX is their (and all the rest on the ISS) only way back home unless they use Russia's Soyuz to get home. That's why so much hope was put on Boeing as an alternative/backup.

Soyuz safely launches NASA’s oldest American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts enroute to ISS (9/11/24)

Pick one. Him or Russia.

[onetexan]

7. of course i'm not happy about it, but it's our government that's pitted the country into a dangerous situation when it

decided to do business w Eloon Musk.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Either that or Boeing

or Bezos (Blue Origin) or Branson (Virgin Galactic).

Congress refuses to fund even enough food for people to eat let alone funding NASA.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. Vance wondered the same thing during a speech.

It sounds like a "Be in Washington on January 6th -- WILL BE WILD!" dog whistle to Trump's insane cult. It's like they're counting on at least one of his million supporters to take action.

We'll see. I bet in the next several days we'll hear T***p complain, "They've tried to assassinate me twice and they haven't done it even once to Kamala."