Giggling Elon Musk revisits ‘joke’ about Kamala Harris assassination

Elon Musk has said it would be "pointless" to try to kill Kamala Harris weeks after a pressure campaign led to him to delete a social media post expressing surprise that no one had tried to assassinate the vice-president or Joe Biden.

The Tesla and Space X entrepreneur re-entered the murky waters of political assassinations in a web video interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson which Musk then posted on the X platform that he owns.

Referencing the original comment at the beginning of the one hour and 48 minute exchange, Musk tells Carlson: "I made a joke, which I realised - I deleted - which is like: nobody's even bothering to try to kill Kamala because it's pointless. What do you achieve?"

Both men dissolved into laughter, with Carlson responding: "It's deep and true though."

"Just buy another puppet," Musk continues, before adding: "Nobody's tried to kill Joe Biden. It'd be pointless."

"Totally," agrees Carlson.

"That's hilarious," Carlson deadpans, as his guest laughs at his own joke.

Authorities have notably made multiple arrests of individuals who have made death threats against Harris and Biden. A Virginia man was arrested in August and charged with making threats against the vice-president.

Musk's original comment on X was posted in the immediate aftermath of a suspected second assassination attempt on Donald Trump last month. On 15 September, a man was arrested after a Secret Service agent spotted the barrel of a gun sticking out of bushes at the former president's golf club in Palm Beach, Florida. A suspect, Ryan Routh, has since been charged with trying to kill Trump. He denies the charges.

"And no one's even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala," Musk wrote after the incident, with a emoji symbolising puzzlement attached.

Musk, a vocal and committed supporter of Trump's campaign to re-enter the White House, later deleted the post amid an angry backlash and comments from the Secret Service that it was "aware" of it.

"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