Although he’s been known to express some incredibly controversial ideas over the years, Twitter/Tesla CEO Elon Musk stepped way over the line this morning in response to remarks made by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and he’s getting pelted with a major backlash on social media for suggesting the congresswoman be charged with treason and executed.
The controversy began when the when the White House’s so-called “rapid response team” posted a video of Omar saying, “The one place where we thought we would never experience this is the U.S. goddamn States.”
Here’s the video:
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) then joined the fray.
“No member of Congress should *ever* refer to our country as the ‘U.S. G*ddamn States’ What should be the consequence of saying that?”
Musk escalated the debate by suggesting that Omar be charged with treason.
Not long after Musk’s comment, MAGA gadfly/Trump acolyte Laura Loomer added her penny’s worth of idiocy to the debate.
Twitter’s AI assistant, Grok, replied:
Kyle Cheney of Politico flagged Musk’s posting and said it seemed that he was suggesting Omar should be “put to death for offensive speech.”
Of course, this is the same Elon Musk who thinks January 6 was a peaceful protest.
