{"id":146150,"date":"2025-05-31T06:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T06:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146150\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T06:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T06:50:12","slug":"elon-musk-reveals-where-his-black-eye-came-from-france-has-nothing-to-do-with-it-firstpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146150\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk reveals where his black eye came from & France has nothing to do with it \u2013 Firstpost"},"content":{"rendered":"

While addressing his farewell press conference with US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk turned up with a black eye, sparking speculations about how it happenedread more<\/p>\n

While standing next to US President
\nDonald Trump<\/a>
\nat the Oval Office to address his farewell press conference, Tesla CEO
\nElon Musk<\/a>
\nturned up with a black eye. Musk\u2019s face sparked speculation immediately given how a report suggested that he was under the influence during his time as adviser to US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

When asked about his black eye,\u00a0 Musk attempted to brush away the matter, insisting that France has nothing to do with it, referencing French First Lady Bridget Macron\u2019s smack to President
\nEmmanuel Macron<\/a>
\nin Vietnam. He eventually revealed that he got the black eye while he was \u201chorsing around\u2019 with his 5-year-old son.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI said go ahead and punch me in the face and he did,\u201d Musk said. \u201cX could do it&mldr;,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI didn\u2019t notice it, actually,\u201d the president quipped. Before Musk spoke about his black eye, social media was rife with users questioning what may have happened to him. \u201cDoes anyone know why Elon has a black eye,\u201d one person said. \u201cWhy is Elon Musk\u2019s right eye, black and blue??????\u201d another asked.<\/p>\n

Musk consumed drugs while advising Trump: Report<\/p>\n

Interstingly, Musk\u2019s farewell press conference came the same day it was reported that the billionaire was
\nusing drugs<\/a>
\n\u201cintensely and regularly,\u201d including \u201cchronically\u201d using the powerful anaesthetic ketamine, during his time as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n

According to the report by The New York Times, the SpaceX CEO was allegedly using psychedelic mushrooms and Adderall, which he kept in a daily medication box. A source close to the billionaire told the American news outlet that Musk kept a daily medication box that held about 20 pills.<\/p>\n

During the presser, Musk attempted to dodge questions on the damming report. Instead, he slammed the NYT for all sorts of reasons. Earlier this week, Musk revealed that he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d in Trump\u2019s \u201c
\nbig beautiful bill<\/a>
\n,\u201d and argued that it \u201cundermines the work\u201d of DOGE. But at the Friday press conference, the matter was not discussed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll remember you as we announce billions of dollars of extra waste, fraud and abuse,\u201d Trump said. \u201cDOGE has installed geniuses with an engineering mindset and unbelievably talented people on computers,\u201d he continued. \u201cI actually asked Elon one time, \u2018What\u2019s their primary thing?\u2019 And they have a lot of primary things all having to do with being smart,” he added. Meanwhile, Musk insisted that he believes DOGE \u201cwill continue to be doing an incredible job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While addressing his farewell press conference with US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk turned up with a black…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[62875,62878,62876,32,41953,295,2000,299,62877,36,29421,62879,62881,62873,28102,62874,1166,1018,62880],"class_list":{"0":"post-146150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-black-eye","9":"tag-bruise","10":"tag-cost-cutting","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-drug-use","13":"tag-elon-musk","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-federal-agencies","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-ketamine","19":"tag-macron-incident","20":"tag-media-attention","21":"tag-musk-black-eye","22":"tag-oval-office","23":"tag-psychedelic-mushrooms","24":"tag-trump-administration","25":"tag-white-house","26":"tag-x-ae-a-xii"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114601120492790081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}