Elon Musk Criticized for ‘Assassinate’ Comment After White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scare

Elon Musk spoke out about the recent shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but several social media users slammed him for his remark.

“If they’re willing to die to assassinate, imagine what they will do if they gain political power,” Musk, 54, wrote via X on Sunday, April 26, just hours after a gunman breached security while armed at the event the night before.

“This is how everyone knows it’s fake. You chime in with stupid propaganda instead of trying to calm tensions,” one X user replied. “Keep lighting the wicks, but don’t be shocked when it all blows up in your face.”

“Unclear who ‘they’ is intended to refer to here. Nobody willing to die to assassinate is running for public office in the United States,” another person chimed in and said.

“Oh boy — when YOU get involved, we know it’s a big con,” a third person responded. “Not that we had any doubt it was staged, but you just confirmed it.”

On Saturday, April 25, alleged gunman Cole Tomas Allen rushed a security checkpoint at the event being held at the Washington D.C. Hilton. He fired multiple shots before he was tackled and handcuffed by law enforcement officials.

While Allen, 31, never made it into the ballroom where journalists and several members of President Donald Trump’s administration were gathered, Trump and his wife, Melania, along with other government officials, were quickly evacuated.

The world’s richest man was once an adamant supporter of Trump, 79, but the two men had a falling out in 2025 after Musk criticized Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

The bill included increases to the national debt ceiling and large tax cuts, but Musk claimed that it would undermine the savings made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which the Tesla investor was previously in charge of.

Trump and Musk’s feud escalated on social media over the next few days, with Musk claiming that the Apprentice alum was “in the Epstein files,” per Axios.

In June 2025, the SpaceX owner walked back some of his comments and said that he had “gone too far” in a message shared via X.

Three months later, the two men had seemingly reconciled their differences when they were spotted speaking with one another and shaking hands at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service.