The SpaceX and Tesla CEO is “deeply unwell” due to mental issues, drug use and stress, Seth Abramson has said
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who emerged as a strong ally of Donald Trump during last year’s presidential campaign, could be “going mad,” a self-described biographer of the tech billionaire has suggested.
Seth Abramson, a self-styled Musk biographer who has written books on Trump and backed the now-debunked conspiracy theory that the Republican firebrand colluded with Russia to get elected, insisted in a post on X on Monday that there are grounds to “legitimately believe [that] Elon Musk may be going mad.” The author claims to have monitored the South African tech billionaire closely in recent years, and insists both Musk and Trump are “extremely dangerous men.”
“I am a Musk biographer who has been tracking his online behavior for the last two years — and given that he has admitted to all of mental illness, heavy drug use, and crippling stress, it is now reasonable to fear he is deeply unwell,” Abramson wrote.
”No objective observer who has been reading Elon’s tweets; his replies; the misleading screenshots he amplifies; the anonymous trolls and white supremacists he amplifies and advocates for; the fake data and reports he amplifies, has any doubt that he is unwell. It is publicly evident,” he claimed in another post.
Abramson, however, failed to provide any specific examples of Musk’s activity on social media that would signal that the billionaire has mental issues.
He called the SpaceX and Tesla CEO “America's incoming co-POTUS.” Trump has tapped Musk to head DOGE, a special advisory body tasked with identifying US government inefficiency.
Musk “intends to have much more power in the Trump administration than Trump,” the journalist claimed.
He urged the US government to act swiftly against the tech billionaire in order to reduce his influence because “his madness and increasing incitement of violence endanger us all.”
Musk has become more and more active on his X platform in recent weeks, offering harsh criticism of first the outgoing German chancellor and then the British government. According to the website X tracker, the entrepreneur has authored more than 60 posts per day over the past week, with the record being on Monday, when he posted 135 times.
On Wednesday, Musk called outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “girl” over his rejection of a merger between the US and Canada, which is being promoted by Trump.