Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump was hit by an assassination attempt while playing golf in Florida on the 15th. Trump is fine and the suspect has been detained. This is the second time Trump has been hit by an assassination attempt in two months. The last assassination attempt took place on the podium of a campaign rally in mid-July.

In the United States, the aftermath of the assassination attempt is still reverberating, and Musk once again posted controversial remarks on his personal account. After questioning why no one assassinated Harris and Biden, he deleted the post under pressure. The Secret Service, which is responsible for the security of the US president, said they have "noticed Musk's post." According to the Global Times, at the same time, the White House criticized Musk's remarks.

Many American politicians mentioned the increasing extremism and violence in American politics. Trump's running mate Vance admitted that both sides had some bad remarks, but he believed that the Democratic Party did worse in comparison. Vance called on both sides to tone down their sharp words in future campaigns, saying that he would "do everything I can" to reduce the offensiveness of the language.

Musk, who has 197 million followers on social media X, caused another huge controversy on social media on the 16th local time. A netizen asked, "Why do they always try to assassinate Trump?" Musk replied, "And none of them tried to assassinate Harris or Biden." After arousing public anger, Musk quietly deleted the message and posted two posts in a row to explain.

Musk first said: "Well, one lesson I learned is that just because I said something to a group of people and they laughed, doesn't mean it will be as funny when written on X." Then he wrote in a follow-up post: "It turns out that if people don't know the context and the content form of the joke is plain text, the joke is not as funny."

Meanwhile, the White House criticized Musk's remarks. White House spokesman Andrew Bates called Musk "irresponsible" in a post condemning Musk on the 16th. Bates reiterated Biden and Harris' statements on Trump's second attack, saying that political violence should not be tolerated in the United States. Bates said: "Violence should only be condemned, never encouraged or joked about."