On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities.

Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

It is unclear whether Mr. Musk, 53, was taking drugs when he became a fixture at the White House this year and was handed the power to slash the federal bureaucracy. But he has exhibited erratic behavior, insulting cabinet members, gesturing like a Nazi and garbling his answers in a staged interview.

At the same time, Mr. Musk’s family life has grown increasingly tumultuous as he has negotiated overlapping romantic relationships and private legal battles involving his growing brood of children, according to documents and interviews.

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— April Glick Pulito (@aprilglick.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T10:57:55.028Z

A junkie unmoored from reality destroyed our govt:
"The drug has psychedelic properties and can cause dissociation from reality. Chronic use can lead to addiction and problems with bladder pain...Mr. Musk told people that his ketamine use was causing bladder issues"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T11:12:18.720Z

[Irish_Dem]

1. So both Trump and Musk wear diapers due to their serious drug addictions.

Trump is said to have worn diapers for years due to his serious cocaine use in the 80's and his adderall use.

[LiberalArkie]

18. GOP family values.

[Irish_Dem]

2. We have never seen Musk sober and clean.

He is always cranked up on something.

[John1956PA]

3. Musk in Butler, Pennsylvania, October 5, 2024:

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes high as a kite.

[demmiblue]

7. Indeed.

"Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

[groundloop]

25. Why do Tesla and SpaceX retain a drug addict as their CEO?

More specifically a drug addict who doesn't even show up to his job.

[Irish_Dem]

27. Because he is the richest man in the world and does what he damn well pleases at all times.

No one will touch him.

Money talks.

[Linda ladeewolf]

30. If he was poor with the same drug habits

He’d be living in a cardboard box.

[Irish_Dem]

31. And he would be broke paying child support for his many many illegitimate children.

[Blues Heron]

5. Lock him up! Drug use is no excuse for his malfeasance

[k_buddy762]

6. The lunatics are running the asylum

[demmiblue]

9. And they have all our data.

[k_buddy762]

12. Correct

but they've had it for 15-20 years at this point.

The problem is that now the AI has it.

[tanyev]

8. I had to pass a drug test when I applied for a job shelving books at a public library!

I guess gleefully chainsawing your way through federal agencies that Americans depend on has nowhere near the dangerous ramifications as intermixing books whose author’s names start with Mc or Mac.

[Irish_Dem]

21. If you put one book out of order, the planet would be destroyed.

[Blues Heron]

10. who okayed this story? Is the end nigh?

[Irish_Dem]

11. The man with control of the federal govt is psychotic and a drug addict.

[travelingthrulife]

19. And none of our illustrious media said anything until months of damage done.

Nothing said until he quit.

[Irish_Dem]

20. Nothing was said until all the damage is done and cannot be stopped.

[mopinko]

13. we DO NOT talk enough about hard drugs in high places.

i rly dont care what ppl do in their free time. but i suspect some historian, eons hence, will look at everything from the rampant coke use of the 80’s to this shit right here, and wonder who the fuck was in charge.
the war on drugs was only ever about controlling ppl in low places.

i’ve told this story here b4, but about 15 yrs ago, i went back to school. i got a certificate of design from continuing studies at the art institute. the teachers all had day jobs, and extensive work experience. 1 of the graphic design teachers had worked at disney, in the pr dept.
she swore that when they sent out the movies pre-release, to critics, they filled the drive holes in the vhs tapes w coke. AT DISNEY.

[moniss]

14. In lots of areas of the country

back during the big cocaine years if you went a level or two up from the guy pushing drugs on the street you would find big shot lawyers, judges, businessmen etc. as the "supplier" to the levels down below.

[LiberalArkie]

22. I have never seen anyone who "only did recreational drugs in the privacy of their home" not be affected with it

while not at home or at work. Not me nor anyone.

[generalbetrayus]

15. I've maintained for decades that the Disney folk were using drugs going all the way back

to the 40s. I saw Dumbo's hallucination following his accidental ingestion of alcohol as a psychedelic drug-induced flight of fantasy. Alice in Wonderland, Fantasia, even Winnie the Pooh, too.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Creative types are more prone to drug use to help their creativity? Or so they think it will.

[thought crime]

26. And/Or less inhibited, more curious?

[Irish_Dem]

28. Yes creative types have a different brain wiring.

They see the world in a different way, think outside the box.
And not as constrained by what others see as normal.

[travelingthrulife]

16. So NYT has been ordered to go after Musk?

Didn't everyone know he was whacked on drugs? Crack investigative team there.

[Irish_Dem]

24. Probably to provide cover from their lord and master Trump.

Blame everything on Musk.

[generalbetrayus]

35. Crack investigative team there?

I thought they discovered his use of ketamine, not crack cocaine.

[mwmisses4289]

17. Gee, birdcage paper, you guys are just getting onto this story?

Many of us with a working brain suspected/knew this months ago.

The so called reporters at this rag appear to be effing clueless!

[Vinca]

29. Meanwhile, back in Congress, they're planning to launch an investigation into some cocaine found

in the White House years and years ago. Wonder if Musk was visiting anyone during that time.

[ToxMarz]

32. It is unclear whether Mr. Musk, 53, was taking drugs when he became a fixture at the White House this year

Unclear to whom?

Only those who refused to acknowlege it. It was a well known 'secret'.

[IronLionZion]

33. Republican war on drugs and family values

is more like Republicans value drugs and wage a war on families.

Why was he exempt from drug testing?

[Timeflyer]

34. Nazis love drugs--Pervitin (basically meth) was handed out to Hitler's troops.

[IbogaProject]

36. Is this still news if it is reported so blatantly late?

I really loathe our billionaire media stewards, they have sold us down the river for decades now. But at least back awhile ago they actually dug up and covered stuff, now they are just filling time and column space between ads.

[Nasruddin]

37. Let's consult an expert on this subject

Funny coincidence - all this info comes out in the Paper of Record a few days after the big breakup.

[Paladin]

38. Legitimate use of ketamine: It's a fucking HORSE ANESTHETIC. (nt)