Elon Musk, the billionaire king of bad takes, came up with a new one to cement his reign on Sunday night.

Responding to a second potential assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, the X owner questioned why no one was trying to kill the Democratic president and vice president.

“And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” he posted, adding a thinking-face emoji.

A near-instantaneous firestorm of criticism predictably followed, with several people telling him to “delete your account” and others tagging the U.S. Secret Service’s X account.

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    13 months ago

    The difference is of course obvious to anyone who’s not knee deep in MAGA. (Hint: being a threat to democracy can unfortunately invite this sort of thing).

    Still, really? This is what political discourse has come to lately? I mean, what the …