--- title: Elon Musk Says He’ll Attend Trump Rally in Pennsylvania description: Trump is returning to the fairgrounds in Butler, the setting of an assassination attempt on the former president in July that left one supporter dead. canonical: https://time.com/7041698/elon-musk-trump-rally-butler-pennsylvania/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-10-04T05:45:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T18:23:27.973Z article:section: Politics og:title: Elon Musk Says He’ll Attend Trump Rally in Pennsylvania og:description: Trump is returning to the fairgrounds in Butler, the setting of an assassination attempt on the former president in July that left one supporter dead. og:url: https://time.com/7041698/elon-musk-trump-rally-butler-pennsylvania/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb723c0e37dbe9b6f/698a653fdb2987301426d26c/elon-musk-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Elon Musk Donald Trump Rally og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Elon Musk Says He’ll Attend Trump Rally in Pennsylvania twitter:description: Trump is returning to the fairgrounds in Butler, the setting of an assassination attempt on the former president in July that left one supporter dead. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb723c0e37dbe9b6f/698a653fdb2987301426d26c/elon-musk-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Musk Says He’ll Attend Rally as Trump Returns to Butler, Pennsylvania, After July Shooting by [Romy Varghese / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Romy Varghese / Bloomberg Oct 4, 2024 5:45 AM UTC  Elon Musk attends the men’s final of the tennis U.S. Open in New York City on Sept. 8, 2024. Elon Musk attends the men’s final of the tennis U.S. Open in New York City on Sept. 8, 2024.Jean Catuffe—GC Images by [Romy Varghese / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Romy Varghese / Bloomberg Oct 4, 2024 5:45 AM UTC [Elon Musk](https://time.com/6310076/elon-musk-ai-walter-isaacson-biography/) said he would attend a rally that [Donald Trump](https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/) is holding on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, the setting of the [first assassination attempt](https://time.com/6998302/trump-rally-shooting-2/) on the former president. In a [post](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1842048755169690103) late Thursday New York time on his social platform X, the billionaire wrote, “I will be there to support!” in response to the Republican presidential nominee’s post about his return to the site. > [](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1842048755169690103) Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, has already committed millions to Trump’s third White House bid, with a super political action committee he started spending $71 million mostly on canvassing and field operations to get out the vote. Trump’s rally at fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, comes exactly one month before Election Day. At a rally there in July, a [gunman’s](https://time.com/6998557/thomas-matthew-crooks-trump-rally-shooter-fbi-motive/) bullet grazed his ear. The gunman killed Corey Comperatore, a firefighter, as he shielded his family, and gravely wounded two others. The image of a bloodied Trump standing up after the shooting, fist pumped and mouthing “Fight!” has become one of the [most iconic images of the campaign](https://time.com/6998896/behind-the-cover-interview-evan-vucci-trump-photorgraph/), emblazoned upon T-shirts, vehicles and splashed across social media. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7041698/elon-musk-trump-rally-butler-pennsylvania/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7041698/elon-musk-trump-rally-butler-pennsylvania/"},"headline":"Musk Says He’ll Attend Rally as Trump Returns to Butler, Pennsylvania, After July Shooting","datePublished":"2024-10-04T05:45:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T18:23:27.973Z","description":"Trump is returning to the fairgrounds in Butler, the setting of an assassination attempt on the former president in July that left one supporter dead.","url":"https://time.com/7041698/elon-musk-trump-rally-butler-pennsylvania/","keywords":["Donald Trump","wire","overnight","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb723c0e37dbe9b6f/698a653fdb2987301426d26c/elon-musk-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Romy Varghese / Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb723c0e37dbe9b6f/698a653fdb2987301426d26c/elon-musk-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Elon Musk Donald Trump Rally","caption":"Elon Musk attends the men's final of the 2024 U.S. Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center in New York City on Sept. 8, 2024.","creditText":"Jean Catuffe—GC Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7041698/elon-musk-trump-rally-butler-pennsylvania/","name":"Musk Says He’ll Attend Rally as Trump Returns to Butler, Pennsylvania, After July Shooting"}}]}] ```