Elon Musk to join Donald Trump during rally at site of 1st assassination attempt
Side-by-side image of former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. (Getty Images)
Elon Musk plans to join former President Donald Trump at his rally on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the Republican presidential nominee survived an assassination attempt earlier this year.
Musk tweets his support
"I will be there to support!" Musk wrote on his social platform X on Thursday in a retweet of Trump’s own promotion of the rally. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO will be among special guests in attendance, Trump's campaign confirmed Friday.
The event will mark the first time that the billionaire businessman appears publicly at a campaign event for the former president since endorsing him. The July endorsement came directly after the attempted assassination, with Musk writing on X, "I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery."
Musk has supercharged his support for Trump in recent months and has become personally more invested in politics — even agreeing to lead a government efficiency commission if Trump wins reelection.
He also created a super PAC supporting the Republican nominee that has been spending heavily on get-out-the-vote efforts in the final months of the campaign.
Trump-Musk interview highlights
In an interview with Elon Musk on X Monday night, former President Donald Trump recounted his assassination attempt and discussed top issues like illegal immigration and his plans to cut government regulations. The chat lasted over two hours after listeners dealt with widespread tech delays. Musk claimed a distributed denial-of-service attack was to blame.
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Trump plans "never before seen" celebration
Trump announced his return to Butler and planned to "celebrate a unifying vision for America’s future in an event like the world has never seen before."
On Saturday, the former president will speak where thousands of people, including children, witnessed him and the others get shot. Former Buffalo Township Fire Company Chief Corey Comperatore was killed, while David Dutch and James Copenhaver were both hospitalized with injuries. U.S. Secret Service killed the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Also appearing with the former president will be his running mate Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance, his son Eric Trump, his daughter-in-law and RNC co-chair Lara Trump, and several Pennsylvania lawmakers and sheriffs, the campaign said.