President Donald Trump and Elon Musk sit for an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity broadcast on Feb. 18, 2025.

Elon Musk has said Donald Trump’s first assassination attempt prompted him to endorse the president sooner than he originally intended to, adding that he was “planning to do it anyway.”

In a joint interview with Trump on Fox News broadcast on Tuesday, Musk said the effort to assassinate Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July was a “precipitating event.”

“That speeded it up a little bit?” Trump asked about Musk’s endorsement. “I didn’t know that.”

“Yeah,” Musk said. “It sped it up, but I was going to do it anyway.”

Trump was wounded in the ear after a gunman fired into the crowd attending his campaign rally in the key battleground state on July 13. The shooting killed one attendee.

Musk endorsed the video in a post on his platform, X,........

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