The billionaire is also alleged to have used ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms — and sources suggest it could have affected his work at DOGE

The world’s richest man, who put about $288 million towards Trump’s re-election campaign last year and has been a key member of his inner circle since, also carried around packaging labelled as Adderall pills, a stimulant used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other conditions, according to photographs seen by the publication.

Musk stepped down from his role in government this week as his contracted time as a special government employee came to an end, and has lamented the criticism aimed at the cost-cutting agency and the reputational damage his companies took.

Musk was asked about the New York Times article in an appearance at the White House alongside Trump on Friday. “Is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on the Russiagate?” he replied, referring to claims that Trump had been compromised by Russia during his 2016 presidential election victory. “Is it the same organisation? Let’s move on.”

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    this is being leaked to press because the people in the white house who had to deal with Elon HATE him and NEVER want him back, and desperately want him to be the fall guy for all the terrible things Trump’s admin did and is doing. part of me wishes he was kicked out, but another part enjoys the suffering he causes for the terrible people orbiting the white house

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    sources suggest it could have affected his work at DOGE

    What? He aced his work at DOGE.

    He stripmined all the data and halted the regulatory investigations into his companies.

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    I don’t think there’s an amount of ketamine that would have me doing this, though, even by accident…

    elon hitler salute gif

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      Idk. I told the doctors and nurses to tell all the girls I had big crushes on (individually, by name) that I loved them even though I was dying and I would protect them like an angel.

      I wasn’t actually dying, I was having a minor procedure and a hypersensitive reaction to the drug.

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    I honestly hope he isn’t gone so he continues to do an insane amount of drugs and fucking cooks his peanut of a brain so much he either dies or goes into a coma.

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    Based on what I know Ketamine does to a person’s behaviors, taking enough to enjoy it yet not enough to see mouse people leads me to believe he’s actually much worse of a person behind closed doors and sober.

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      Agreed, this is ultimately fantastic news, if true. Fuck that guy and I hope his various organs just give up one by one. Or all at once. He’s a wildly destructive loser of a man.

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    I don’t like this theory, cause it implies that everything he has done is because of the drugs, and not because he’s a megalomaniac narcissistic greedy moron.

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        But people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (and related Cluster B disorders) have been known to come out of the psychedelic experience with an even bigger egomaniacal God complex than they had going into the experience, counterintuitively.

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          Yeah, that makes sense now that I think about it. I used to think it would make them more sympathetic and empathetic towards people other than their selves, but that’s clearly not the case for everyone.

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      My theory is that his PR people are “leaking” these stories that he can rebuild his image as a recovering addict. This will let them craft a sympathetic story and they will hope that we’ll forget that he’s a racist asshole.

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      Exactly, it lowers inhibitions, it doesn’t carve a completely different asshole.

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      He’s a drug addict, it’s not a theory he’s on hella drugs, he IS on hella drugs

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    Well, I guess there goes the old theory of giving people in control psychedelics and MDMA and having it turn them around and become more empathetic.

    Also, I’ve heard the bladder issues excessive ketamine causes is incredibly painful and I would normally have some sympathy for someone with the condition, but I really find it lacking when it’s concerning someone who has caused so much chaos and harm.

    Edit: spelling