Elon Musk on Wednesday accused The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal of lying “through their teeth” with reports of drug use.

Musk posted a photo of drug test results from June 18 showing he tested negative for a slew of chemicals after the Times published a report headlined: “On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama.” The report stated that Musk turned to drugs during the 2024 campaign “well beyond occasional use.”

“The WSJ & New York Times fake ‘journalists’ lied through their teeth about me. Now let’s see their drug test results. They will fail,” Musk posted on X alongside a photo of his drug test results.

The drug test would have caught any drugs that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had taken recently, though it would not have necessarily caught drugs taken months ago.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Musk’s alleged drug use last year titled: “Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX.” The report said that Musk would consume drugs such as “LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms” on occasion and mostly at private parties where attendees must sign non-disclosure agreements to attend.

Musk spoke about drug use with his biographer, telling Walter Issacson “I really don’t like doing illegal drugs.” Musk has previously said he took prescribed amounts of ketamine – about once every two weeks – for depression, according to the Times report.

Musk has long been critical of legacy outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. At a press conference in the Oval Office last month, Musk tore into the Times for its reporting over the Russia collusion conspiracy that enveloped the 2016 Trump campaign and President Donald Trump’s first term.

“The New York Times, is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on the Russia-Gate? Is that the same organization?” Musk said when asked about a Times report. “I think it is. … That New York Times? Let’s move on.”

Vice President JD Vance trolled users of BlueSky on Wednesday, joining the social platform to take part in “common sense political discussion” of the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding state bans on gender mutilation surgeries.

Vance created an account on BlueSky, reputedly a platform for leftists and defectors of Elon Musk’s X, and posted a screenshot of a piece of Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence in United States v. Skrmetti shortly before the vice president was apparently suspended from the site. Vance’s account was then reactivated a short time later.

In the concurrence, Thomas raised objections to “deferring to the authority of the expert class.”

“First, so-called experts have no license to countermand the ‘wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices,’” Thomas wrote. “Second, contrary to the representations of the United States and the private plaintiffs, there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children.”

“Third, notwithstanding the alleged experts’ view that young children can provide informed consent to irreversible sex-transition treatments, whether such consent is possible is a question of medical ethics that States must decide for themselves,” he continued. “Fourth, there are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance.”

Vance posted the snippet with an encouraging, if cheeky, message inviting “discussion and analysis” of Thomas’ argument.

“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go to for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you,” Vance said before laying out “illuminating” points from Thomas’ concurrence.

“[Thomas] argues that many of our so-called ‘experts’ have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,” Vance said. “I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?”

Just set up my page on @bluesky, hope to see you guys there! pic.twitter.com/5cgjyMF8su

— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 18, 2025

Progressives on BlueSky pounced on Vance’s post. Gun control activist Fred Guttenberg called Vance an “anti-Democracy hack” and said of the vice president’s post that BlueSky “does not need to be infested with your deranged thoughts.”

Zach Kopplin, an activist and investigator with the Government Accountability Project, responded to Vance’s post: “Time to cyber bully JD Vance off this app.”

In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld a state ban on transgender drugs and surgeries in Tennessee. The court ruled that the ban does not violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

“In today’s historic Supreme Court win, the common sense of Tennessee voters prevailed over judicial activism,” said Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. “A bipartisan supermajority of Tennessee’s elected representatives carefully considered the evidence and voted to protect kids from irreversible decisions they cannot yet fully understand.”