Elon Musk defends himself against newspaper: “I don’t take drugs!”

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has rejected a report on alleged drug use during the 2024 election campaign. “To make it clear, I don’t take any drugs,” said Musk at the weekend in his online service X, although he “none” highlighted the word with capital letters. The large donor and later government representative of US President Donald Trump admitted again that he was prescribed and taken Ketamine a few years ago.

Musk now reacted in more detail to a report by the “New York Times”, which caused a stir in Washington from Friday. It was shortly before a joint appearance with Trump in the White House to say goodbye to Musk as a government representative for cuts in the state apparatus. The newspaper had reported that the Tesla and SpaceX boss took so much ketamine during the 2024 election campaign that it got bladder problems. Ketamine is a strong anesthetic that is also popular with drug users.

Musk now attacked the renowned newspaper again: “The ‘New York Times’ Has off his ass, “he wrote on Saturday on his online platform X. He had only briefly reacted to questions from journalists after his drug use.

“Is that the same publication that received the Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on Russiagate?” Asked Musk with a view to reports from the newspaper about a interference of Moscow in favor of Trump in the 2016 election campaign. “Next. Okay. Next question,” he said at the press conference.

The newspaper wrote about Musk’s drug use that concern had triggered. The entrepreneur is also said to have taken ecstasy and hallucinogenic mushrooms and were traveling with a pill box last year. According to the “New York Times”, it is unclear whether Musk also took drugs while doing his work as Trump’s government advisor.

Trump was also asked on Friday whether he was aware of Musk’s regular drug use. “I didn’t know that” – and he pushed: “I think Elon is a fantastic guy”.

Musk now commented on the words that he tried “prescription” ketamine a few years ago. This is nothing new, he had previously commented on X at X. To take his ketamine, he said: “It helps to get out of dark mental holes, but I haven’t taken it since then.”

At the White House on Friday there was also a large violet of Musk’s right eye. When asked what had happened to his eye, the 53-year-old said that his five-year-old son X gave him the blue eye. He had scored with him and said to him: “Well, go on my face. And he did it.”

Musk was responsible for bureaucracy downbuilding in the Trump government with its Department of State Efficiency (Doge). Due to the rigid cuts and ministries, Musk had attracted a lot of resentment. Musk complained that Doge had become a “Buhmann”.

In addition, he came under criticism because of extremely right -wing failures, among other things, at a appearance in January he showed a gesture that was interpreted as a Hitler salute and supported the AfD in the election campaign in Germany. The paragraph of Tesla cars broke massively, and Teslas were also set on fire in rows.

There were also difficulties in the online platform X and the rocket starts from SpaceX. After four months when Trump’s special consultant, Musk announced his exit from the government job last week. He wanted to devote himself to his companies again.

At the beginning of his work for Trump, Musk had given the goal of saving two trillion dollars (1.76 trillion euros), but he did not reach this by far: According to calculations by the magazine “The Atlantic”, a thousand of this sum was saved, although tens of thousands of people lost their jobs in the course of the radical cuts.

Trump thanked Musk for his “incredible service” and handed him a gilded key on Friday as a farewell gift. The entrepreneur, who is considered the richest person in the world, will continue to “go in and out” in the White House, “announced Trump. Musk, in turn, said he was happy to continue to be the “friend and consultant” of the president.