President Trump has a new super fan in billionaire Elon Musk, who officially endorsed him for president after Saturday’s assassination attempt, saying “the last time we had a candidate this tough was Theodore Roosevelt.”
“I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery,” Musk wrote on X, which he owns, 30 minutes after Trump was shot at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump escaped serious injury, suffering a wound to his right ear, but one person was killed and another severely injured, according to police sources. The gunman was killed.
Musk also slammed the Secret Service for not thwarting the sniper, reposting a tweet from Jack Posobiec who asked “How was a sniper with a full rifle kit allowed to bear crawl onto the closest roof to a presidential nominee?”
“Extreme incompetence or it was deliberate,” Musk wrote. “Either way, the SS leadership must resign.”
He took aim at the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, reposting a tweet containing her online biography that indicated her prior job before taking over the Secret Service was senior director at PepsiCo.
“So before being put in charge of protecting the PRESIDENT, she was guarding bags of Cheetos …” Musk wrote.
In response to a post from someone asking, “How the hell was such an obvious line of sight not secured,” Musk wrote: “Exactly.”
He added in another post, “The head of the Secret Service and the leader of this security detail should resign.”
The gunman who tried to assassinate Trump at the rally Saturday had positioned himself on the roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage.
The open-air campaign event was being held at the Butler Farm Show grounds, whose large, sprawling fields gave the sniper a virtually unobstructed line of sight to the former president from his perch.
The counter-sniper team, which sources told The Post killed the shooter, returned fire from the roof of another building close to where Trump was located — behind the audience stands.
An AR-style semi-automatic assault rifle was recovered from the scene, law enforcement sources told The Associated Press.
Musk already reportedly made a contribution to a political group backing former President Trump in the 2024 election, according to a report.
Musk, 53, donated a “sizeable amount” of money to America PAC, Bloomberg News reported Friday.
The super PAC is required to disclose its list of donors on July 15, according to the outlet.
