Billionaire entrepreneur and prime adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, touted that he has reaped the advantages of a controversial class of weight-loss medication, after fellow prime Trump adviser, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., mentioned the fashionable new class of medication is dangerous for Individuals’ well being.
“Ozempic Santa” Musk posted to X, previously Twitter, on Christmas Day, alongside a picture of himself in entrance of a well-decorated Christmas tree dressed as Santa Claus — however with out his signature massive stomach. “Like Cocaine Bear, but Santa and Ozempic!”
In a follow-up submit, Musk clarified that he’s taking the brand-name model known as Mounjaro, however mentioned the clunky identify did not “have the same ring to it.”
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Musk has been tapped by Trump — together with former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — to move the soon-to-be Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) geared toward reducing down on wasteful authorities spending and crimson tape. In the meantime, Kennedy is Trump’s choose to guide the Division of Well being and Human Companies and, if confirmed, Trump has given Kennedy permission to “go wild on health” so long as he does not intrude with Trump’s home power targets.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks with Donald Trump throughout a marketing campaign occasion on the Butler Farm Present, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Submit by way of Getty Photos)
Musk’s social media submit over the vacations turned heads, contemplating Kennedy has expressed opposition to semaglutide. Initially developed as a diabetes medicine, semaglutide has been used extra extensively lately for its appetite-suppressing results.
“There’s a huge push to sell this to the American people,” Kennedy mentioned of the semaglutide medicine Ozempic when requested about his ideas on the medicine in October by Fox Information’ Greg Gutfeld. “They make this drug in Denmark, and in Denmark they do not recommend it for diabetes, or for obesity. They recommend dietary and behavioral changes.”
“They’re counting on selling it to Americans because we are so stupid and so addicted to drugs,” Kennedy added. He additionally concluded that the U.S. might clear up the weight problems disaster in America “overnight” if they simply had entry to, and ate, higher high quality meals.
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Kennedy has run on a platform to “Make America Healthy Again,” however Ozempic, he says, is not going to assist in these efforts. Musk, nonetheless, has mentioned that “nothing would do more to improve public health” than making Ozempic extra extensively accessible.
Throughout President Joe Biden’s ultimate days in workplace, his administration proposed increasing Medicare and Medicaid protection for semaglutides to make them extra extensively accessible for individuals who need to reap the weight-losing advantages of the drug.
President-elect Trump shared a McDonald’s meal with Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., Home Speaker Mike Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Donald Trump Jr./X)
Moreover Musk, Kennedy might additionally doubtlessly conflict with Trump’s choose to guide the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who has additionally expressed assist for medication like Ozempic.
“I think the amount of good done by these medications by helping people lose weight and improve their cardiovascular system — and it might have long-term benefits in a lot of other areas as well, where obesity causes inflammation — is massive,” Oz mentioned final 12 months in a video posted to his Instagram account.
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Kennedy, who very nicely might grow to be Oz’s boss if they’re each accepted by the Senate, appeared to cut back his criticism of the brand new weight-loss drug amid his efforts to court docket assist for his nomination from members of Congress.
Former Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offers remarks on the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Lodge on Aug. 23, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, forward of his resolution to drop out of the 2024 presidential race and throw his assist behind Trump. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Photos)
“The first line of response should be lifestyle. It should be eating well, making sure that you don’t get obese,” Kennedy mentioned throughout a fast interview with CNBC on the ground of the New York Inventory Trade, earlier than including that anti-obesity medication like Ozempic “have a place” within the American medical group.
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Representatives for Musk, Kennedy and the Trump transition crew didn’t present a remark to Fox Information Digital for this story.
