Elon Musk will join Donald Trump at his rally on Saturday in Butler, the Pennsylvania city where the Republican presidential candidate survived an assassination attempt earlier this year.
“I will be there to support!” Musk wrote on his social platform X on Thursday in a retweet of Trump’s own promotion of the rally. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla will be among the special guests, Trump’s campaign confirmed on Friday.
The event will mark the first time the billionaire businessman has publicly appeared at a campaign event for the former president since endorsing him. The July approval came on the heels of the assassination attempt, with Musk writing on X: “I fully support President Trump and hope for his speedy recovery.”
Musk has boosted his support for Trump in recent months and has become more personally invested in politics — even agreeing to head a government efficiency commission if Trump is re-elected.
He also created a super PAC to support the Republican candidate, who has invested heavily in getting out the vote in the final months of the campaign.
Saturday’s rally will take place on the same grounds where a gunman’s bullets grazed Trump’s right ear and killed his supporter, Corey Comperatore. The shooting injured several others.
According to the campaign, several members of Comperatore’s family, as well as other attendees and first responders from the July rally, will join Trump on the farm show grounds on Saturday.
In addition to the former president, his running mate, Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance, his son Eric Trump, his daughter-in-law and RNC co-chair Lara Trump, and several Pennsylvania lawmakers and sheriffs will appear, the campaign said.
