"Shoulder bump like a rugby player." Elon Musk fights US Treasury Secretary

American billionaire Elon Musk and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent fought in the White House. The details of the incident, which took place in April, were reported by The Washington Post.

It is noted that relations between the businessman and the administration of US President Donald Trump began to heat up in April. After a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the White House, Musk and Bessent disagreed over the appointment of one of the officials. They began exchanging insults as they left the Oval Office.

"Musk then slammed his shoulder into Bessent's chest, 'like a rugby player,' and Bessent slammed him back. Several people intervened to break up the melee. Musk was then pushed out of the president's residence," Trump's longtime political adviser Stephen Bannon told the publication.

Trump reacts to fight between his subordinates

Trump commented on the clash between the billionaire and the Secretary of the Treasury. He called the incident "over the top." At the same time, the publication noted, the president was depressed due to the deteriorating relationship with Musk, but asked his subordinates, including Vice President J.D. Vance , to avoid radical statements about the entrepreneur.

It later became known that the White House had begun to demand that senior officials who sympathized with Trump and Musk choose one of them. “White House staff have already begun calling and sending messages to some senior Trump and Musk associates, demanding that they choose a side in this melodrama, adding that it will likely be the easiest choice of their lives,” the report said. Such messages are being sent to major Republican donors and conservative figures. A source in the US presidential administration emphasized that they are now “taking away Elon’s friends.”

White House Suspects Musk Has Drug Addiction

In late May, The New York Times reported that Musk had become addicted to drugs during the Trump campaign. “Musk’s drug use went far beyond casual use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily pill case containing about 20 pills of the stimulant drug,” the article said.

However, Musk denied this information and accused the newspaper of lying. "I don't take drugs!" Musk said. The billionaire noted that he tried ketamine on a medical prescription several years ago, but has not taken it since.

After Musk went on to directly attack Trump and even called for his impeachment, the president lost his temper and described the businessman as a "big drug addict." However, The Washington Post clarifies that suspicions of Musk's drug addiction were initially one of the factors in the discord between them.