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(299,543 posts)and smiled 😀
Dave Bowman
(7,564 posts)malaise
(299,543 posts)to prove otherwise - hehehe
HappyH
(285 posts)But the time required may be longer than we think. I have a disease that will eventually kill me, so a terminal disease, but Im still going on and hoping for 10 more good years before it gets me.
SergeStorms
(21,045 posts)We all take the ride to the same destination. Some debark sooner than others, but none of us get past the final terminal.
I'm sorry to hear your stop is sooner than others', but don't despair: we'll all meet at the same destination. ❤️
HappyH
(285 posts)And thank you for your kind words.
We all gotta go sometime. Im old now and at peace with my future demise. I dont despair, and dont fear what comes, lust hope it dont hurt too bad.
Pinback
(13,714 posts)Swede
(40,502 posts)Good one. A whopper a day keeps the Epstein files at bay.
lastlib
(28,821 posts)He tells dozens a day. (Nothing to do with burgers.....)
aeromanKC
(3,996 posts)These statements are making me thirsty!! 🍾
EdmondDantes_
(2,277 posts)But I don't believe they have to be.
It's unusual for a drug for a common condition like obesity to get an exception for a drug still in the trial phase. It was requested by a NIH doctor for a patient who was the same age as Trump and "with refractory obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, and pulmonary hypertension, which is high blood pressure in the lungs."
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/trump-may-be-mystery-patient-in-odd-case-of-79yo-getting-experimental-obesity-drug/
Disaffected
(6,699 posts)received the drug?
Kingofalldems
(40,412 posts)Disaffected
(6,699 posts)Or was it leaked?
Kingofalldems
(40,412 posts)Manatee
(60 posts)80
Torchlight
(7,230 posts)Kingofalldems
(40,412 posts)79 when first given drug. Just turned 80.
malaise
(299,543 posts)barbtries
(31,385 posts)and provided, he was 79.
Manatee
(60 posts)Retatrutide is a triple agonist weight-loss drug being developed for obesity and other weight-related conditions. It is a once-weekly injection designed to target three receptors involved in appetite and metabolism: GIP, GLP-1, and glucagon. Because it activates all three, Retatrutide is often referred to as a Triple G weight-loss medication or a triple hormone receptor agonist.
tinrobot
(12,122 posts)Color me disappointed.
doesn't seem like anything to get excited about.
Torchlight
(7,230 posts)Skittles
(173,600 posts)gross
senseandsensibility
(26,006 posts)Anyone have any idea what is behind this?
tinrobot
(12,122 posts)Buried in the paperwork was a single exception for one 79 year old man.
Not normally done. People think the exception was for the orange guy.
senseandsensibility
(26,006 posts)The weight loss drug? But doesn't he seem to be suggested it's something more serious?
Botany
(78,209 posts)Congestive Heart Failure & Frontotemperial Dementia do your work. How long has Trump been on this end of life Medicine?
calimary
(91,431 posts)Id guess it might be bad karma to wish for the death of someone. That thought (or warning?) has been stalking me for awhile. And from what I learned in Catholic school, its not nice OR anything to be proud of. So why does it try to engulf me every doggone day?
Botany
(78,209 posts)The man is responsible for millions of deaths worldwide, he works for Putin, raped and sex trafficked
children, screwed over thousands of people, an out and out racist, defaced the Nations Capitol City, cheated his ass off to "win his elections and he is a psychopath.
He went to military school to avoid going to a juvenile detention facility after he beat up a smaller student and tried to throw a teacher out a window but less than 20% of Americans know that.
3catwoman3
(30,155 posts)...to feel bad wishing his demise would be sooner rather than later.
Bumbles
(582 posts)You are being truly compassionate in wanting to end his misery. That it happens to end ours as well is only coincidental.
MadameButterfly
(4,283 posts)JD is dangerous and actually smart.
We'd just be switching Elon Musk for Peter Theil
I want to see Trump in an orange jump suit.
niyad
(135,288 posts)too lazy to actually . . .you know. . .work. The difference would be that the bright, shiny dustraction that is the orange creature would be gone. jd would not have that 9cult following.
I just want the orange screwworm to stop wasting our resources.
MadameButterfly
(4,283 posts)but actually believes in something and can appear coherent. Watch Jon Oliver's show on JD Vance. You'll be happy to have Trump bumbling around with reflection pools and sleeping at meetings.
Marie Marie
(11,637 posts)IT'S NOT WORKING. In all of his recent pictures, he looks heavier than ever.
buzzycrumbhunger
(2,385 posts)
and have garbage from McDonalds delivered to him a couple times a day. Surely, he couldnt pass it up. Yknow
just to hurry things up.
LetMyPeopleVote
(183,880 posts)An unnamed 79-year-old man was reportedly granted special access to the drug retatrutide through a compassionate use program.
White House denies Trump applied for âcompassionate useâ for weight loss drug.
— TheBlackPage (Woke, DEI forever against fascism) (@theblackpage.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T23:21:33.054Z
An unnamed 79-year-old man was reportedly granted special access to the drug retatrutide through a âcompassionate useâ program.
www.ms.now/news/white-h...
https://www.ms.now/news/white-house-trump-weight-loss-drug
The health and science news outlet Stat News reported that the Food and Drug Administration and drug manufacturer Eli Lilly allowed one person a 79-year-old man special access to the drug retatrutide through a compassionate use program, citing three sources familiar with the matter. Those sources, Stat News reported, requested anonymity due to fear of reprisals.
According to the FDA, compassionate use is a pathway for a patient with a serious or immediately life-threatening disease or condition to gain access to an investigational medical product (drug, biologic, or medical device) for treatment outside of clinical trials when no comparable or satisfactory alternative therapy options are available.....
But on Tuesday, hours after the Stat News report was published, White House spokesman Kush Desai said on X that the application was not for the President. He went on to publicly bash the reports author, Lizzy Lawrence, accusing her of being an unserious gossip columnist.
Lawrence responded on X that she had asked Desai, the FDA and HHS multiple times on Monday whether the application was for Trump. No one answered my question directly, she wrote. Desai called the report baseless speculation in a follow-up post.
The patient who received this drug "suffered from refractory obesity with obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension."
The patient also took tirzepatide, an FDA-approved obesity drug by Lilly, for one year, but experienced only moderate weight loss, Stat News reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
trump has not lost any significant weight over the last year and so that does NOT rule trump out. I have obstructive sleep apnea and have been using a CPAP for a very long time. I seriously doubt that trump is capable of using a CPAP machine correctly and consistently which could account for trump's strange hours and trump falling asleep in meetings.
Historic NY
(40,200 posts)MadameButterfly
(4,283 posts)and give up his entitlement to have whatever he wants whenever he wants.
LetMyPeopleVote
(183,880 posts)My youngest is on Zepbound at a low dosage and she has no appetite for a couple of days after her weekly shot.
If he is on one of these medications, trump may be eating out of habit and not because he is hungry. These meds can lessen the appetite but not overcome bad habits and behavior
sop
(19,841 posts)Now Trump will claim he was part of the research team, maybe even came up with the drug himself.
Figarosmom
(14,623 posts)It hostage for his SAVE AMERICA bs and because this bill actually helps people but hurts his buddies in real-estate.