The richest man in the world, who also happens to be a U.S. defense contractor, is being criticized on social media on Sunday after questioning why people aren’t trying to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump over the weekend was tackled by his own Secret Service after an individual was reportedly spotted hiding on the former president’s golf course behind a bush with an AK-47. Authorities say they fired at the man, who was later apprehended and is being questioned.

A graphic designer posted a question, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” Elon Musk, who owns the social media company that he renamed from Twitter to “X,” posted a controversial statement in response.

“And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” Musk wrote with a “thinking face” emoji.

The comment did not go over well.

  • mkwt@lemmy.world
    245·
    2 months ago

    SpaceX is beating the pants off every other domestic launch provider unfortunately. All because Musk took some fantastic risks with his own money, and they paid off handsomely. And the worst part is SpaceX is a private company: no public shareholders to keep Musk in check.

    You may have heard about ULA having a wee bit of trouble with some capsule thrusters. They have lost some truly epic amounts of money on that program.

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      30·
      2 months ago

      I wish we had a legal way to force musk out of spacex. I want spacex to succeed, I think it’s in our nature as humans to want to explore beyond our own planet. I don’t think it should be under private control of fascist billionaires with the interests of building feudalist space colonies

        • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
          17·
          2 months ago

          Ooo what if we had a federal administration that covered the national aeronautical and space needs of the country…

        • kautau@lemmy.world
          12·
          2 months ago

          Sorry, should have specified “a realistic way to legally…” I think I would shit out actual gold before the Supreme Court voted to nationalize anything, much less spacex

            • kautau@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              Damn, I’m being hung up on all the technicalities. “I think it’s more likely that, in my lifetime, I would randomly shit out a pure Royal Canadian Mint 1 kilo 99.99% gold bar in its entirety before the US Supreme Court would nationalize any company”

        • Dkarma@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          This would send shockwaves through the market that it may not recover from. If rich people think their assets can be nationalized for any reason they will panic and bail

          • krashmo@lemmy.world
            7·
            2 months ago

            Good. Contribute to the society that allows you to be successful or gtfo. There’s bound to be growing pains associated with that but I don’t think that would be worse than what is happening now.

          • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            The assets they have in the United States would not go with them, and they would no longer have access to the US consumer and corporate market. Good luck.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      And the worst part is SpaceX is a private company: no public shareholders to keep Musk in check.

      Not like the Tesla or Twitter shareholders are doing much good anyhow.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      Defense production act hangs over their head like the sword of Damocles though if they get out of line in actually following through on their contracts.