‘The Poor Guy’s Got a Problem’: Trump Appears to Hint at Musk’s Alleged Drug Use
President Donald Trump spoke with CNN’s Dana Bash on Friday and appeared to hint at Elon Musk’s drug use as the feud between the erstwhile allies continues to escalate.
“Well, he [Trump] said that he’s quote, well, here’s exactly what he said. Quote, ‘I’m not even thinking about Elon. He’s got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem.’ He said he won’t be speaking to him for a while, but he said he wishes Elon Musk well,” Bash told her colleague John Berman. “He was-, didn’t seem very exercised about it. And the interesting thing is, of course, the context of this is how many people who are in both men’s orbits are trying to broker a peace deal, so to speak, and trying to get them to talk because of the concern about the fallout in so many directions. I mean the blast radius from this fallout is really, really big, and very wide, but right now he said he’s not interested in that and he’s moving on.”
“He’s telling you, ‘I don’t want to talk to him right now,’ and then he also threw that elbow saying that, you know, ‘the poor guy’s got a problem.’ So, you know, if Elon Musk is waking up this morning, he might view that, I imagine, as a new insult,” observed Berman.
“He might. He also said, ‘I won’t be speaking to him for a while, I guess, but I wish him well.’ He wasn’t, he wasn’t exercised. He wasn’t-, he didn’t sound angry. He sounded, I can’t, I guess, more resigned to where their relationship is right now. But he obviously is very well aware of the impact that this is having,” replied Bash. “And that’s why I found it interesting that even though he seemed to try to put a stop to any speculation or, as you were saying, the entreaties from so many people for the two of them to make up, you’re still trying to kind of shape the narrative about what is coming out of the White House. It’s not an easy thing to do right now because literally the entire world is focused on this remarkable feud between the president of the United States and Elon Musk.”
The New York Times reported last week that on the campaign trail last year, “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.”
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