A biographer who covers Donald Trump’s erratic robber baron sidekick Elon Musk has said something pretty alarming about his mental health. And he did it right on Musk’s own social media platform, X.

Seth Abramson, who you might be familiar with for any number of reasons, is something of a rennaissance man: A Harvard-educated lawyer and professor of law, biographer, writer, political columnist and poet. But if you’ve been following him for about the last decade, you’re likely most familiar with his social media feed on X, which was still called Twitter when he joined in 2015.

In fact, if you’re like any of his other roughly 850,000 followers on the platform, you were with him throughout the first Trump presidency for his keen and accurate takes on Russian interference, scandals, and Trump’s eventual multiple impeachments.

You already know this is a smart man with a lot of common sense. So his thread from Monday on Elon Musk is both revelatory and alarming.

It stands to reason, as a guy who covered Trump so thoroughly, that Abramson would focus on Musk next. After all, many have already observed the seemingly limitless influence that Musk has over Trump, even getting Donald to side with him over his own MAGA followers on the topic of immigration and giving American jobs to low-paid highly-skilled workers.

But Musk has been going crazy with that power. It seems now that he believes he has an influence over global politics as well. He’s been tweeting nonstop about British politics lately, averaging 62 posts a day, according to a tracking website.

Here’s Abramson’s take, one tweet at a time:

I legitimately believe Elon Musk may be going mad. I’m a Musk biographer who has been tracking his online behavior for the last two years—and given that he’s admitted to all of mental illness, heavy drug use, and crippling stress, it is now reasonable to fear he is deeply unwell.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 6, 2025

This much has been documented. Elon has been frank about his mental state, and has even acknowledged that he may be somewhere on the Autism Spectrum. But when a condition like that is coupled with the copious amounts of drugs that Musk has admitted to taking, it can lead to unpredictable results.

His private struggles would not be of general concern except they have dramatic public consequences.

His holdings across many civilization-essential industries and the fact that he’s the incoming POTUS mean that his madness and increasing incitement of violence endanger us all.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 6, 2025

Here, Abramson employs the same rhetoric as many critics of Trump and Musk, inferring that the SpaceX founder and owner of X and Tesla is the “actual” president that Americans are going to get on January 20th.

For 14 days more the administration is in a position to take urgent action to protect America from Elon Musk. That could include ending all U.S. contracts with him, filing lawsuits to block his unconstitutional DOGE initiative, and launching new federal and natsec investigations.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 6, 2025

That is, of course, 14 days from when this post was made. The time is now shorter, but the idea no less urgent. The Biden administration is quite literally awash in reasons to be further investigating Musk from a national security standpoint, as Abramson points out. And the whole “DOGE” thing — Trump’s attempt at creating something he has no authority to create out of thin air — has already been proven to be a menace to essential government programs and initiatives.

If no action is taken—and I suspect no action will be taken—what this man in his burgeoning madness does to America as POTUS in the coming years will be on the heads of not just him and those who support or enable him but those who ignored urgent, informed warnings like this one.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 6, 2025

This is where I completely agree with Abramson. I too believe that no action will be taken. If this administration planned to do something to ameliorate the effects of the most recent election, they could easily have asked Congress to invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which would have prevented Trump from ever taking office.

In fact, at numerous points there have been opportunities to stop the horrorshow that’s coming, including insisting that the Justice Department finish its job of prosecuting Donald Trump for his myriad crimes — all of which are, as Jack Smith demonstrated, not included in his immunity claims, since they were committed in the interest of Trump, the candidate for president, not Trump, the sitting President.

Will people heed the warning about Elon Musk? Even Trump is starting to tire of Musk’s constant presence and input, which was to be expected. Trump doesn’t like to share the spotlight for long.