Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and President-elect Donald Trump’s“first buddy,” revealed on Christmas night that he was using the medication Mounjaro for weight loss while dubbing himself “Ozempic Santa” in a holiday-themed social media post.
The revelation also comes just a couple of weeks after he clashed with Trump’s designated Health and Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the widespread use and long-term benefits of GLP-1 inhibitors in battling obesity.
Bobby Jr says that we need to ban junk food and sugar and people will eat healthy and they’ll be fine. Isn’t it pretty to think so? (Meanwhile, he’s been seen using Zyn nicotine pouches and if he isn’t using steroids he’s a freak of nature. )
Musk is an acknowledged user of many different drugs, some of which I’ll bet he was using during his Christmas tweet storm (and it wasn’t Ozempic.)
Earlier this month, a rift appeared to grow between Kennedy and Musk over the best way to make the American public healthier, considering that 40 percent of American adults are now considered obese.
During an appearance on Fox News’ Gutfeld! last month, Kennedy argued that making GLP-1 inhibitors available to all overweight Americans would cost taxpayers trillions of dollars, claiming it would be much cheaper just to provide healthier food to the public.
“If we spend about one-fifth of that giving good food, three meals a day, to every man, woman and child in our country, we could solve the obesity and diabetes epidemic overnight,” he said at the time. Of course, this also came as he was infamously forced to pose with Musk and Trump as they dug into a post-election McDonald’s feast on the president-elect’s private plane.
While Kennedy continued to insist that lifestyle change and greater access to organic foods were the keys to making America healthier, Musk contended this month that the expensive weight-loss drugs would make the biggest difference. “Nothing would do more to improve the health, lifespan and quality of life for Americans than making GLP inhibitors super low cost to the public,” Musk wrote on December 11. “Nothing else is even close.”
They’re both right. We should have healthy food available to everyone and the weight loss drugs should also be available at super low cost to the public.
Win-win, MAGA! Get behind that one and you really might have a legacy that isn’t a toxic wasteland.
