Elon Musk, the billionaire king of bad takes, came up with a new one to cement his reign on Sunday night.

Responding to a second potential assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, the X owner questioned why no one was trying to kill the Democratic president and vice president.

“And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” he posted, adding a thinking-face emoji.

A near-instantaneous firestorm of criticism predictably followed, with several people telling him to “delete your account” and others tagging the U.S. Secret Service’s X account.

  • PoorYorick@lemmy.world
    502·
    2 months ago

    I am firmly convinced, based solely on what the tinfoil hat whispers to me, that both of these “attempts” were funded by the GOP as an effort to drive media attention towards Trump.

    After all, they have fully admitted to making up stories to get media attention. Is it really too far of a stretch to think that they would pay some poor sucker they view as disposable into being a threat in his general vicinity. The whole thing just feels like a media stunt from a wrestling promo.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 months ago

      If this was staged, I think it was staged to trigger Trump’s cultists to try and take out Harris. They want them all to react just like “Leon” did.

    • EtherWhack@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Maybe it’s a secret service black op orchestrating it all, all from feeding into his delusions and antagonizing him to convincing a random MAGAt that the only way to save the country is by making their hero a martyr.

      I can only imagine how maddening babysitting a cheeto is.

  • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
    26·
    2 months ago

    I mean maybe I’m a bit off the wall here but is it possible that - and I’m just spitballing here - but isn’t it possible that being an absolutely insufferable, repugnant, lying, manipulative, egotistical, repulsive, persistent, whining, cry baby asshole that has an almost impressive penchant for pissing off virtually every one, every single second of every single day, on top of being a disagreeable politician could potentially make you a more likely target than just being a disagreeable politician? Idk maybe I’m crazy.