Setting the tone within the first minute of the nearly two-hour talk, Elon called back to a tweet he posted last month following an apparent second assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. At the time, he posted: “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.”

Conservative media pundit Tucker Carlson hosted tech mogul Elon Musk for an interview on his online video show this week, a sit-down that began with the two laughing about Musk’s support for former President Trump and what he says was a “joke” he ...