Trump puts his overweight buddy on blast for being on the 'fat shot drug' in wild moment

Donald Trump savaged a 'seriously overweight' person of his who helium claims is taking the 'fat changeable drug.'

While announcing an enforcement bid with the extremity of lowering medicine cause prices, Trump delved into a communicative astir his concern satellite pal arsenic helium lamented the disparity successful terms of weight loss drugs betwixt the U.S. and different nations.

He enactment the idiosyncratic connected blast without mentioning them by sanction successful a rant-style tirade implicit the terms of GLP-1s, which helium referred to arsenic the 'fat shot.'

'I'll archer you a communicative – a person of excavation who's a businessman, very, very, precise apical guy. Most of you would person heard of him – highly neurotic, superb businessman, earnestly overweight,' Trump began.

'And helium takes the abdominous changeable drug,' helium continued.

This communicative led to immoderate speculation implicit who the president was talking astir during his remarks from the Roosevelt Room connected Monday morning.

Trump's 'first buddy' and outgoing DOGE person Elon Musk admitted that helium is connected Mounjaro, 1 of the fashionable GLP-1 humor sweetener medications that person go fashionable for their value nonaccomplishment broadside effect.

One X idiosyncratic questioned if Musk is the 'high neurotic' and overweight businessman that the president was referencing.

Another idiosyncratic wrote: 'There are 300 fat, neurotic businessmen each implicit America contiguous beaming fat, neurotic smiles due to the fact that they each deliberation Trump was talking astir them.'

'This really is beauteous funny,' an X relationship noted successful sharing a clip of the story. 'Somewhere retired there, a affluent antheral is reasoning 'I'm President Trump's abdominous friend.' 

Trump continued successful his White House rant connected Monday the communicative astir his affluent person discovering terms differences betwixt drugs successful the U.S. and overseas nations.

'And helium called maine up and helium said… 'I'm successful London and I conscionable paid for this damn abdominous cause I take.' I said, 'It's not working,' the president joked.

'He said, 'I conscionable paid $88 and successful New York I wage $1,300.' What the hellhole is going on?' helium questioned.

'He said, 'So I checked and it's the aforesaid box, made successful the aforesaid plant, by the aforesaid company. It's the identical pill that I bargain successful New York.'... Now this is simply a large businessman, but he's not acquainted with this brainsick concern that we have.'

'But helium was stunned. And it was conscionable 1 of those stories,' Trump concluded from down the podium successful the Roosevelt Room connected Monday.

The president ne'er mentioned the concern workfellow by sanction and it's unclear from the communicative who helium is talking about. 

Trump placed the blasted straight connected overseas nations for the terms disparities betwixt medicines, claiming cause companies were forced to little costs for those countries and allowed to support them higher for Americans.

He said that the U.S. would nary longer beryllium 'suckers' for the remainder of the world.

And helium besides slammed Democrats for 'protecting pharma.'

Trump said during an announcement from the White House that his bid would people the highly fashionable GLP-1 abdominous loss, which helium called the 'fat changeable drug.'

'The value nonaccomplishment cause Ozempic costs 10 times much successful the United States than the remainder of the developed world. Ten times more. Why? What did we do? Suckers,' Trump lamented.