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‘Adult toddler’ Elon Musk axed Don Lemon’s show after ‘questions about ketamine use’

Elon Musk allegedly cried foul over questions about his reported drug use.
The billionaire, 52, cancelled his partnership with Don Lemon after sitting down with the former CNN host on Friday.
Musk was set to be the first guest on Lemon’s new show on X, the disgraced cable news host’s first major outing after he was fired following accusations of sexism last year.
Tech journalist Kara Swisher, 61, says she warned Lemon, 58, that this would happen.
Writing on X, she said: “The owner of this platform Elon Musk sent a terse text to [Lemon’s] reps: ‘Contract terminated’ after an interview Lemon did with Musk last Friday that was not to the adult toddler’s liking, including questions about his ketamine use.”
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Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that several executives and board members at Musk’s various companies are worried about his recreational drug use.
Musk has publicly smoked marijuana on Joe Rogan’s podcast. It has also been reported that he’s microdosing ketamine, a dissociative commonly used as a horse tranquilizer and a club drug, as a treatment for depression.
Lemon says he’s still publishing the interview on X and YouTube.
In a statement announcing the end of the deal, which would have seen X share revenue with Lemon, he wrote: “We had a good conversation. Clearly he felt differently. His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me.”
Musk appears to be hitting out at Lemon through back channels.
Citing anonymous sources, the New York Post reports that Lemon was “underwhelming, unprepared and dull” during the Friday sit-down.
“He was unpolished. He didn’t have producers in his ear. [Former CNN President] Jeff Zucker used to be in his ear and he would repeat back everything he was told,” the source added.
Swisher, who hosts a podcast for Vox, argues that efforts to pull X out of the muck — as advertisers flee and its valuation drops — don’t stand a chance against Musk’s ego.
“The much touted multi-million-dollar deal was a pricey effort to attract high profile media creators to X. Not so much when perpetually aggrieved billionaires in desperate need for constant affirmation run the place,” she said.
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