Elon Musk is the prototype of the entitled White American Anglo-Saxon Protestant:
- illegally enriching himself while cutting the livelihoods of average Americans;
- stealing the Social Security private confidential information of American citizens and exploiting them in his tech companies;
- financing the campaigns of the likes of Trump in exchange for future favors and deals;
- using the same drugs that are smuggled across the southern border while claiming to fight drug smuggling;
- cheats on his drug tests by getting advanced notice about when he'd be tested for them;
- embracing white supremacist ideology in sympathy with the white apartheid racists of South Africa of which he was a member;
- degrading and undermining the social security administration with the objective of ultimately eliminating it under the pretext that it is wasteful and fraudulent.
Trump Addresses Elon Musk's Alleged Drug Use After Bombshell New York Times Report
President Donald Trump appears indifferent to the alleged drug use of one of his top advisers.
The New York Times reported Friday that Elon Musk was regularly consuming ketamine, ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, Ambien, Adderall and other drugs while on the campaign trail with Trump. The newspaper said it based its report on private messages it obtained, along with interviews with “more than a dozen people” who know Musk.
It’s unclear whether his drug use changed once he took his place at the helm of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, an initiative that has fired thousands of federal staffers and gutted key agencies under the stated aim of curbing wasteful spending. He officially left his role with DOGE earlier this week.
Trump appeared not to care about this when asked Friday by a reporter if the reported drug use troubled him.
“I’m not troubled by anything with Elon,” he said at the Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. “I think he’s fantastic. Did a great job. And, you know, DOGE continues. And by the time he’s finished, we’ll have numbers that’ll knock your socks off.”
“He did a fantastic job,” the president added. “And he didn’t need it, he didn’t need to do it.”
Musk spent a fortune to help reelect Trump and was later made a “special government employee” to spearhead DOGE. The world’s richest man then gained access, potentially illegally, to highly sensitive government data and hired a group of unvetted 20-somethings for help.
The tech billionaire has called Social Security, one of the most enduring safety nets Americans have ever had, a “Ponzi scheme.” He also danced around onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February wielding a symbolic chainsaw to celebrate his work.
The Times reported that Musk’s drug consumption ramped up around the same time he started joining Trump on the campaign trail last year, and that he regularly traveled with a medication box that held some 20 various pills.
Rather than address the allegations on Friday, Musk attacked the Times’ credibility.
“Is The New York Times — is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on the Russiagate?” he asked. “Is that the same organization? I think it is.”
Musk has previously admitted to taking “a small amount” of ketamine every other week, and was famously shown smoking marijuana on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in 2018.
Musk said Friday that despite his DOGE tenure being over, he hopes to remain Trump’s “friend and an adviser.”
Further....
A New York Times exposé about Elon Musk's fear and loathing on the campaign trail found that the billionaire not only has been on boatloads of risky and illegal drugs during his turn into hard-right politics, but was also being tipped off about when he'd be tested for them.
As we've long known, SpaceX's federal contractor status requires that all its employees — including its mercurial CEO — pass drug tests. Given Musk's admitted penchant for mind-altering substances, and for ketamine in particular, his ability to pass those tests has long been a concern.
If the NYT's sources are to be believed, we may now know how the 53-year-old keeps passing: because he's been warned in advance when the "random" tests are going to occur, and been able to plan accordingly.
(Though those sources didn't get into it, anyone who's ever had to pass a drug test themselves knows that there are typicaly two options: drink so much water that you pee all the drugs out of your system, or get urine or hair from someone else and pass it off as your own.)
As those same sources allege, Musk's substance use increased significantly as he helped propel Donald Trump to the White House for a second time. He purportedly told people that his bladder had been affected by his frequent ketamine use, and had been taking ecstasy and psilocybin mushrooms too.
The multi-hyphenate businessman and politico also carried around a daily medication box with at least 20 pills in it — including ones with markings that resemble the ADHD drug Adderall, according to people who saw photos of it and regaled it back to the NYT. (He's also been linked to cocaine and a cornucopia of other substances.)
When it comes to stimulants like Adderall and anything else in Musk's daily pill box — which, despite how the article makes it sound, is not that abnormal a thing for a man in his 50s to be carrying around — there's a good chance that the billionaire has prescriptions that could excuse at least some abuse. He also has claimed that he was prescribed ketamine for depression, though to be fair, taking so much that it makes it hard to pee would suggest he's far surpassed his recommended dosage.
As Futurism has noted before, Musk's drugs of choice described here are not often screened for on standard drug panels. Though we don't know how in-depth federal drug tests are, standard tests primarily screen for cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines, opiates, and PCP, though some include ecstasy/MDMA as well. Testing for ketamine is, on the other hand, pretty rare.
If Musk is being tipped off about his drug tests — and is either flushing his system or taking a sober underling's urine or hair — none of that would matter. But given that the worst of his purported substance abuse revolves around ketamine, there's always a chance that he's in a recurring K-hole and getting off scot-free, unlike his employees, who are held to a much higher standard.
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