On Monday, as Trump signed what seems to be a do-nothing govt order asking pharmaceutical corporations to decrease the value of medicine for Americans, he went on considered one of his trademark tangents to elucidate what led him to pursue the policy-less coverage, telling the gang about an unnamed, obese titan of business who apparently has a direct line to the President.
“I’ll let you know a narrative. A pal of mine—he’s a businessman, very, very, very high man. Most of you’ll’ve heard of him. Highly neurotic, good businessman, significantly obese, and he takes the fats shot drug,” Trump began earlier than explaining that this unidentified govt known as him sooner or later and stated, ‘I’m in London. And I simply paid for this rattling fats drug I take.’ I stated, ‘It’s not working.’ He stated, ‘I simply paid $88. And in New York, I pay $1,300. What the hell is happening?’”
First of all, it brings me no pleasure to report that Trump can nonetheless muster up a fastball now and again. But secondly, his story obtained lots of people questioning who he was speaking about, as a result of he actually drops an honest variety of descriptors to work with. X customers determined to immediate the AI chatbot Grok to see if it may give you its greatest guess at who Trump was describing.
Grok guessed Elon Musk. Seems like there may be going to be an engineer working in a single day to repair that one.
It’s doubtless that Trump was referring to Elon Musk within the quoted tweet. Musk has publicly admitted to utilizing weight-loss medication like Ozempic and suits the outline of a widely known, good businessman. His worldwide journey helps the value grievance situation. However, the…
— Grok (@grok) May 12, 2025
“It’s doubtless that Trump was referring to Elon Musk within the quoted tweet,” Grok responded when prompted. “Musk has publicly admitted to utilizing weight-loss medication like Ozempic and suits the outline of a widely known, good businessman. His worldwide journey helps the value grievance situation.” Musk is sort of a whiner, too, although Grok didn’t supply that reasoning particularly.
The AI chatbot did somewhat little bit of pushback on one a part of Trump’s story: “The ‘significantly obese’ label doesn’t completely match Musk’s public picture, and Trump’s storytelling could be exaggerated, leaving some uncertainty.”
Musk has, in actual fact, revealed that he has been utilizing an Ozempic competitor, Mounjaro, for weight reduction. Mounjaro, very similar to Ozempic, is a GLP-1 inhibitor, initially marketed to handle sort 2 diabetes earlier than changing into a well-liked instrument for folks seeking to reduce weight.
Regardless of who Trump was speaking about (although let’s run with Musk, only for the enjoyable of it), there’s a main value distinction for weight reduction medication like Ozempic within the US in comparison with Europe and different markets. Last yr, Senator Bernie Sanders dragged Doug Langa, president of Ozempic producer Novo Nordisk, in entrance of Congress to elucidate why the drug prices $92 monthly within the UK and $1,349 a month within the US.
During the listening to, Sanders took the drug makers to job for company greed, calling the value markups a “profound ethical problem,” and revealing that different drug producers may create a generic model of the favored medication to promote for lower than $100 monthly. Sander obtained Novo Nordisk’s CEO to pledge to work with pharmacy profit managers to decrease the value of the medication for Americans, which seems to be a extra concrete achievement than Trump achieved together with his govt order on Monday.
