Elon Musk 'jokes' about President Biden and Kamala Harris assassination on X

Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, deleted a post referencing assassinations of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris early Monday morning.“And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔,” Musk wrote.  Credit: X / Mashable Screenshot Musk’s now-deleted X post quoted another X user who commented about what the FBI said “appeared to be an attempted assassination” on former President Donald Trump on Sunday. This would mark the second assassination attempt on Trump after a gunman opened fire at one of his rallies over the summer.Musk was roundly criticized for his post. Some X users questioned why Musk still has security clearance, a privilege provided to him as CEO of SpaceX. In follow up posts, Musk initially defended his comment.”No one has even tried to do so is the point I’m making and no one will,” Musk said.Musk eventually deleted the post. He now claims that the post was a “joke.” Tweet may have been deleted “Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on 𝕏,” Musk posted after deleting his assassination post.  Tweet may have been deleted “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text,” he continued.Over the years, Musk has increasingly become seeped into right-wing politics and far right conspiracy theories. He announced his…Elon Musk 'jokes' about President Biden and Kamala Harris assassination on X