he Left has made Elon Musk its favorite villain, and the attacks grow louder with every check he writes.
His critics insist it’s just hard-nosed coverage of the richest man on the planet.
And Patrick Bet-David says the guests at Sean Hannity’s wedding kept circling back to one dark question.
The Wedding Chatter Sounded More Like a Security Briefing
Patrick Bet-David hosts one of the biggest shows in conservative media. He usually sells optimism, hustle, and a good argument.
But on a recent episode of the PBD Podcast, he made a prediction most people wouldn’t dare say into a microphone. He believes somebody on the radical left will try to kill Elon Musk.
“They took out Charlie. The next guy for them to have to take out is gonna be this guy,” Bet-David said, pointing to the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Bet-David had just come home from the wedding of Fox News stars Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt. According to Bet-David, the “main conversation” he had with other guests didn’t involve the cake or the first dance. It centered on how much security Musk needs.
He went further. If he were Musk, Bet-David said, he’d keep somebody around to taste his food before he ate it.
Folks can chuckle at that one. It sounds like a detail out of a Renaissance court, where every nobleman kept a nervous fellow at the end of the table sampling the soup.
And yet Bet-David didn’t sound like a man telling a joke. “I’m telling you, they’re not going to let this guy live,” he said. “This guy is a threat to the entire globalist movement.”
Every Headline Paints a Bigger Bullseye
Bet-David tied his warning to a stretch of Musk headlines that set the Left howling all over again.
Musk announced on X that he shut down a loophole Ukraine’s military used to run offensive drone strikes over Starlink. He insisted the satellite network still props up Ukraine’s defenses. “This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact,” Musk wrote.
He also put $1 billion into David Ellison’s Skydance, the company that now owns CNN. And he has poured $445 million into helping Republican candidates in the midterms.
Each move handed his critics a fresh reason to rage. Bet-David noted that anybody who gets the news from Apple News never sees the other side of any of it.
But Bet-David asked the question the angry crowd skips. He wanted to know whether people really think Musk spends this kind of money to buy a bigger house and throw better parties. “Or do you think he’s a true believer?” he asked.
Chris Cuomo Already Ran the Numbers on Camera
Here’s the part the mainstream press would rather everybody forget. Bet-David didn’t invent the idea that Musk might end up murdered. A cable news host got there first.
An assassin gunned down Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. That same day, Musk posted “The Left is the party of murder” on X.
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo took it personally. On his podcast, The Chris Cuomo Project, he called Musk “the stupidest genius I’ve ever been around” and then wandered somewhere no anchor should go.
“Now, does that mean he should be murdered? No, because that’s not how I see the value of human life,” Cuomo said. “But would I be surprised? No.”
Musk didn’t miss the irony. “By implying that I might be murdered by the radical left, Cuomo is exactly proving my point!” he wrote.
Cuomo later insisted he never blamed the radical left for anything, and he groused on air after Musk told him off in a private message and blocked him.
Here’s the kicker. Cuomo later appeared on The Charlie Kirk Show and said the thing that scared him most about the reaction to Kirk’s murder was the “yeah, but” crowd, the people who condemned the killing and then justified it in the next breath. Go back and read his riff about Musk. No, but. Same shape, a day after the blood dried.
The Arsonists Didn’t Wait for a Prediction
Anyone tempted to call Bet-David paranoid should rewind to March 2025.
Vandals and arsonists hit Tesla dealerships, charging stations, and lots in a wave that stretched from coast to coast. Somebody torched Cybertrucks on a Tesla lot in Seattle. Vandals damaged two more at a dealership in Kansas City.
In Las Vegas, an attacker hurled Molotov cocktails into five Teslas at a collision center, fired rifle rounds into them, and spray-painted “Resist” across the glass doors, according to police. Officers later arrested a 36-year-old Nevada man and charged him with 15 felony counts. He remains innocent unless a court finds otherwise.
Attorney General Pam Bondi didn’t mince words. “The swarm of violent attacks on Tesla property is nothing short of domestic terrorism,” she said. Federal prosecutors charged three other people over Molotov attacks on Tesla property in Colorado, Oregon, and South Carolina.
Musk summed up the absurdity in a single post. “Tesla just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks,” he wrote.
Torching a car isn’t the same as aiming a rifle at a man, and nobody should pretend otherwise. Bet-David can’t see the future either. But the people throwing firebombs at those lots weren’t mad at a sedan. They were mad at the guy whose name sits on the company letterhead.
Musk Already Lives Like a Marked Man
Musk doesn’t need a podcaster to tell him the danger is real. He has said so himself, repeatedly.
During the 2024 campaign, Musk said two different people had tried to kill him in a span of eight months. He has also complained to Joe Rogan that the corporate media’s portrayal of him could stir up violence.
After Kirk’s murder, the man who lands rockets on drone ships in the middle of the ocean admitted he can barely go to the store. “It’s not that I don’t want to. I simply can’t,” Musk told The Katie Miller Podcast in December 2025. He said the Kirk assassination reinforced that “life is on hardcore mode.”
Then he added the line that should stick with anybody who mocks Bet-David. “You make one mistake, and you’re dead,” Musk said.
Musk showed up at Kirk’s memorial in Arizona anyway. He hugged Erika Kirk in front of the cameras, which is more courage than most of his critics have ever shown for anybody.
Same Script, Bigger Stakes
Step back and the pattern gets hard to ignore. A gunman put a bullet through Donald Trump’s ear in Butler in July 2024 and killed volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore. Two months later, the Secret Service spotted a rifle poking out of the shrubs at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach. Back in June 2022, police arrested an armed would-be assassin outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in Maryland.
Then Charlie Kirk, shot dead in broad daylight while talking to college students.
Every one of those targets spent years hearing that he was a menace to democracy, a fascist in waiting, a threat that somebody needed to stop. The labels never come with an instruction manual. They don’t have to.
Musk now sits right where Bet-David put him. He bankrolls the Republican ground game, owns a slice of the network that spent a decade bashing Trump voters, and refuses to apologize for any of it. The final weeks before the midterms will only turn up the temperature.
Nobody on the Left has explained yet why that same warning sounds like paranoia coming from a MAGA podcaster and like plain realism coming from a NewsNation host.
Sources: Mediaite; PBD Podcast; The Chris Cuomo Project via BizPac Review and The Western Journal; The Daily Caller; The Daily Beast; Fox News; The Katie Miller Podcast via Fox News and The Post Millennial; Fortune; Reuters; ABC News; The Hill; Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department; US Department of Justice