In July, Elon Musk publicly endorsed Donald Trump for president on X (formerly Twitter) after an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania. And following another apparent assassination attempt on Trump on Sunday, the X owner took to his platform to respond to a user who’d asked, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?”
Musk’s reply, which he later deleted and described as a “joke”, was to quote the post and write this: “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔.”
“Really?” says Stephen Colbert in the Late Show clip above, in response. “Is thinky face the right emoji for openly suggesting political violence? I’d have gone with telephone, officer, down arrow, down arrow, poop emoji, because you’re about to get a call from the secret service and are in deep, deep s**t.”
