Musk admits he takes a controversial weight-loss drug that RFK Jr. opposes

Billionaire businessman and senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, announced that he has reaped the benefits of a controversial class of weight-loss drugs, after his top Trump adviser, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said the new trendy drug class is bad for the health of Americans.

“Ozempic Santa” Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Christmas Day, alongside a picture of himself in front of a beautifully decorated Christmas tree dressed as Santa, but without his big belly. “Like the Cocaine Bear, but Santa Claus and Ozempic!”

In a follow-up post, Musk clarified that he’s taking the branded version called Mounjaro, but said the clunky name didn’t “have the same ring.”

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Musk has been tapped by Trump, along with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead the future. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with the goal of reducing wasteful government spending and bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Kennedy is Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, and if confirmed, Trump has given Kennedy permission to “get health care” as long as it doesn’t interfere with Trump’s domestic energy goals.

Musk’s social media post over the holidays turned heads, considering Kennedy has expressed opposition to semaglutide. Originally developed as a diabetes medication, semaglutide has become more widely used in recent years for its appetite-suppressing effects.

“There’s a big push to sell this to the American people,” Kennedy said of the semaglutide drug Ozempic when asked about his thoughts on the drug in October by Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld. “They make this drug in Denmark, and in Denmark they don’t recommend it for diabetes or obesity. They recommend changes in diet and behavior.”

“They plan to sell it to Americans because we’re so stupid and so addicted to drugs,” Kennedy added. He also concluded that the US could resolve the obesity crisis in America “overnight” if only they had access to and ate better quality food.

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Kennedy has run on a platform for “Make America Healthy Again,” but Ozempic, he says, will not help in those efforts. Musk, however, has said that “nothing would do more to improve public health” than making Ozempic more widely available.

During President Joe Biden’s final days in office, his administration proposed the expansion Medicare and Medicaid coverage for semaglutide to make them more widely available to those who want to reap the weight loss benefits of the drug.

In addition to Musk, Kennedy could also face Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who has also expressed his support for drugs like Ozempic.

“I think the amount of good these drugs do by helping people lose weight and improve their cardiovascular system, and could also have long-term benefits in many other areas where obesity causes inflammation, is massive,” he said. oz. last year in a video posted on his Instagram account.

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Kennedy, who could very well become Oz’s boss if both are approved by the Senate, appeared to tone down his criticism of the new weight-loss drug amid efforts to enlist the support of his nomination of members of Congress.

“The first line of response should be lifestyle. It should be eating well, making sure you’re not obese,” Kennedy said during a quick interview with CNBC at the New York Stock Exchange, before adding that anti-obesity drugs like Ozempic “have a place” in the American medical community.

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