Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Post on Truth Social That Elon Musk Is Always High On Ketamine And Should Go Back To Africa

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  • by: Alan Duke
Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Post on Truth Social That Elon Musk Is Always High On Ketamine And Should Go Back To Africa Not A Truth

Did President Trump post on his Truth Social account on June 5, 2025, that Elon Musk should "go back to Africa"? No, that's not true: The @realDonaldTrump timeline was closely watched at the time in anticipation of Trump's responses to Musk during their high-profile tit for tat dispute. There is no evidence the post ever appeared on Trump's Truth Social account. Fake posts attributed to Trump and Musk spread across social platforms as their feud boiled over on Thursday, June 5, 2025.

The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X by the @lisa_liberal account on June 5, 2025, under the title "Y'all be quiet. My show is on." The text of the fake Truth Social post read:

Elon Musk or 'Mediocre Musk' is constantly high on ketamine. Always making promises he can't keep. NOT TO BE TRUSTED! He wants to go to Mars, how about you go back to Africa.

This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:

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(Source: screenshot of X.com by Lead Stories)

Here are Lead Stories fact checks of some of the fake social media posts that appeared in the middle of the Trump-Musk breakup:

Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Post On His Truth Social Account "That totally was a Nazi salute that Elon did" -- Fake Image

Fact Check: Post Attributed To Trump About 'Implication' Said To Have Been Mentioned By Musk During Meeting About Mars Is NOT Authentic

Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Post 'Pigfoot' Message On X -- Fake Screenshot

Fact Check: Trump's Account On X Was NOT Suspended, As Of June 5, 2025

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  Alan Duke

Editor-in-Chief Alan Duke co-founded Lead Stories after ending a 26-year career with CNN, where he mainly covered entertainment, current affairs and politics. Duke closely covered domestic terrorism cases for CNN, including the Oklahoma City federal building bombing, the UNABOMBER and search for Southeast bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. CNN moved Duke to Los Angeles in 2009 to cover the entertainment beat. Duke also co-hosted a daily podcast with former HLN host Nancy Grace, "Crime Stories with Nancy Grace" and hosted the podcast series "Stan Lee's World: His Real Life Battle with Heroes & Villains." You'll also see Duke in many news documentaries, including on the Reelz channel, CNN and HLN.

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