ELON Musk took an extensive amount of drugs while helping Donald Trump be reelected as president, it has been claimed.

The Tesla boss reportedly used ketamine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms at an alarming rate during the campaign trail last year .

The 53-year-old tech mogul was even said to have taken ketamine so often that it left him with serious bladder problems, according to claims published in the New York Times .

Musk reportedly told his associates in spring last year - around the same time he first endorsed Trump for the presidency - that he was feeling the effects of the powerful substance.

Bladder problems are a known consequence of chronic abuse of ketamine, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) .

It remains unclear whether Musk was ever u

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