Trump Is Bragging That He Planted the Elon Musk Drug Abuse Story in the New York Times:

Описание: Donald Trump is getting personal in his war on Elon Musk, according to author Michael Wolff.

The president has been beefing about his former pal on phone calls with associates, claiming that he tipped off The New York Times about the billionaire’s alleged drug use, Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast on Wednesday.

The Times reported in May that the 53-year-old was using ketamine, as well as Adderall, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, during Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign—which he spent hundreds of millions to support. Musk denies that he was taking drugs.

I was tracking some Trump phone calls on Monday night. And it’s sort of worth explaining here that over a long period of time, I’ve gotten to know and cultivated a lot of people who Trump regularly speaks to,” Wolff told host Joanna Coles.

Trump speaks to them, and then they speak to other people,” he said, adding, “whoever he calls, he says the same thing to everybody. So you know exactly what is on his mind.”

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Trump Is Bragging That He Planted the Elon Musk Drug Abuse Story in the New York Times: Author
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Josephine Harvey
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Updated Jul. 3 2025 4:24AM EDT
Published Jul. 3 2025 1:03AM EDT
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Donald Trump is getting personal in his war on Elon Musk, according to author Michael Wolff.

The president has been beefing about his former pal on phone calls with associates, claiming that he tipped off The New York Times about the billionaire’s alleged drug use, Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast on Wednesday.

The Times reported in May that the 53-year-old was using ketamine, as well as Adderall, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, during Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign—which he spent hundreds of millions to support. Musk denies that he was taking drugs.

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“I was tracking some Trump phone calls on Monday night. And it’s sort of worth explaining here that over a long period of time, I’ve gotten to know and cultivated a lot of people who Trump regularly speaks to,” Wolff told host Joanna Coles.


“Trump speaks to them, and then they speak to other people,” he said, adding, “whoever he calls, he says the same thing to everybody. So you know exactly what is on his mind.”

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Apparently, Musk was on his mind on Monday.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has reignited his feud with Trump this week, rage-posting against the behemoth spending bill that Trump is trying to push through Congress. By Tuesday, it had irked Trump enough to provoke a public threat, in which the president suggested Musk’s government subsidies could dry up and send him packing “back home to South Africa.”