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Rep Ted Lieu on the new drug Trump is allegedly getting: (Original Post) Kingofalldems 5 hrs ago OP
I saw terminal illness malaise 4 hrs ago #1
And the whole world smiled with you. 😃 Dave Bowman 4 hrs ago #15
See how fast he showed up to lunch malaise 4 hrs ago #17
Yeah, a cautious smile here. HappyH 3 hrs ago #30
Life is a terminal disease. SergeStorms 2 hrs ago #35
Of course you are right HappyH 2 hrs ago #38
"Or is it TACO Wednesday?" Pinback 4 hrs ago #2
Whopper Wednesday was already taken (by Burger King) Swede 4 hrs ago #4
Ha! Pinback 4 hrs ago #16
Every day is Whopper Day with The Felon...... lastlib 3 hrs ago #19
You just don't go to the mic and say that without there being some there there. aeromanKC 4 hrs ago #3
Compassionate use exemptions are typically for serious or life threatening illnesses EdmondDantes_ 1 hr ago #42
How was it known in the first place that a VIP 79 yo Disaffected 4 hrs ago #5
Last night I saw what appeared to be an official form. Kingofalldems 4 hrs ago #9
OK but how did it become public? Disaffected 4 hrs ago #11
Leaked most likely. Kingofalldems 4 hrs ago #14
He's Manatee 4 hrs ago #6
79 when drug was reportedly administered Torchlight 4 hrs ago #7
Hmm. Interesting. Kingofalldems 4 hrs ago #12
Yes but the form was before the birthday n/t malaise 4 hrs ago #18
when it was prescribed barbtries 3 hrs ago #20
Retatrutide Manatee 4 hrs ago #8
A GLP-1 weight-loss drug is not exactly a "terminal illness" drug. tinrobot 3 hrs ago #22
Yeah Manatee 3 hrs ago #23
It shows Torchlight 3 hrs ago #31
can you even imagine his "ozempic face" Skittles 2 hrs ago #37
Seriously, Lieu is not one to just spitball senseandsensibility 4 hrs ago #10
There was a weird FDA exception for the drug tinrobot 3 hrs ago #26
Yeah I heard about that. senseandsensibility 3 hrs ago #32
Don't tease me! Botany 4 hrs ago #13
Or me!!! calimary 3 hrs ago #21
Because you are a thinking human being. Botany 3 hrs ago #24
Given that he has often called for the execution of people he doesn't like, I don't think we need... 3catwoman3 3 hrs ago #25
I don't think it would be bad Karma at all. Bumbles 3 hrs ago #27
I don't want him to die MadameButterfly 2 hrs ago #36
maybelline couchhumper and thiel are already running things. krasnov is far niyad 1 hr ago #41
JD supports the stuff Trump is doing MadameButterfly 21 min ago #43
All I can say is that IF Trump got this special weight loss medication... Marie Marie 3 hrs ago #28
What if we take up a collection buzzycrumbhunger 3 hrs ago #33
If trump is the patient, then also he has refractory obesity with obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension LetMyPeopleVote 3 hrs ago #29
Donesn't seems to slow down his feeding his face with crap. Historic NY 2 hrs ago #39
That would require discipline MadameButterfly 18 min ago #44
I am on Mounjaro and after my weekly shot, I have no or little appetite for a couple of days LetMyPeopleVote 14 min ago #45
Trump applied to be a test subject for a new weight loss drug? sop 3 hrs ago #34
He's not signing because he's holding Figarosmom 2 hrs ago #40

HappyH

(285 posts)
30. Yeah, a cautious smile here.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:54 PM
3 hrs ago

But the time required may be longer than we think. I have a disease that will eventually kill me, so a terminal disease, but I’m still going on and hoping for 10 more good years before it gets me.

SergeStorms

(21,045 posts)
35. Life is a terminal disease.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 04:19 PM
2 hrs ago

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)
38. Of course you are right
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 04:39 PM
2 hrs ago

And thank you for your kind words.
We all gotta go sometime. I’m old now and at peace with my future demise. I don’t despair, and don’t fear what comes, lust hope it don’t hurt too bad.

lastlib

(28,821 posts)
19. Every day is Whopper Day with The Felon......
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:17 PM
3 hrs ago

He tells dozens a day. (Nothing to do with burgers.....)

aeromanKC

(3,996 posts)
3. You just don't go to the mic and say that without there being some there there.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 02:21 PM
4 hrs ago

These statements are making me thirsty!! 🍾

EdmondDantes_

(2,277 posts)
42. Compassionate use exemptions are typically for serious or life threatening illnesses
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 05:34 PM
1 hr ago

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/

Manatee

(60 posts)
8. Retatrutide
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 02:50 PM
4 hrs ago

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)
22. A GLP-1 weight-loss drug is not exactly a "terminal illness" drug.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:33 PM
3 hrs ago

Color me disappointed.

tinrobot

(12,122 posts)
26. There was a weird FDA exception for the drug
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:47 PM
3 hrs ago

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)
32. Yeah I heard about that.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:56 PM
3 hrs ago

The weight loss drug? But doesn't he seem to be suggested it's something more serious?

Botany

(78,209 posts)
13. Don't tease me!
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 02:59 PM
4 hrs ago

Congestive Heart Failure & Frontotemperial Dementia do your work. How long has Trump been on this end of life Medicine?

calimary

(91,431 posts)
21. Or me!!!
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:28 PM
3 hrs ago

I’d 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, it’s not nice OR anything to be proud of. So why does it try to engulf me every doggone day?

Botany

(78,209 posts)
24. Because you are a thinking human being.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:38 PM
3 hrs ago

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 Nation’s 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)
25. Given that he has often called for the execution of people he doesn't like, I don't think we need...
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:40 PM
3 hrs ago

...to feel bad wishing his demise would be sooner rather than later.

Bumbles

(582 posts)
27. I don't think it would be bad Karma at all.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:48 PM
3 hrs ago

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)
36. I don't want him to die
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 04:19 PM
2 hrs ago

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)
41. maybelline couchhumper and thiel are already running things. krasnov is far
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 05:27 PM
1 hr ago

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)
43. JD supports the stuff Trump is doing
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 06:53 PM
21 min ago

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)
28. All I can say is that IF Trump got this special weight loss medication...
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:51 PM
3 hrs ago

IT'S NOT WORKING. In all of his recent pictures, he looks heavier than ever.

buzzycrumbhunger

(2,385 posts)
33. What if we take up a collection
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 04:06 PM
3 hrs ago

… and have garbage from McDonald’s delivered to him a couple times a day. Surely, he couldn’t pass it up. Y’know… just to hurry things up.

LetMyPeopleVote

(183,880 posts)
29. If trump is the patient, then also he has refractory obesity with obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:51 PM
3 hrs ago

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 ‘compassionate use’ for weight loss drug.

An unnamed 79-year-old man was reportedly granted special access to the drug retatrutide through a “compassionate use” program.

www.ms.now/news/white-h...

TheBlackPage (Woke, DEI forever against fascism) (@theblackpage.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T23:21:33.054Z

https://www.ms.now/news/white-house-trump-weight-loss-drug

The White House on Tuesday denied that President Donald Trump applied for access to an experimental obesity drug not yet on the market after Stat News reported that a 79-year-old man was approved to take it.

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 report’s 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."
National Institutes of Health Senior Clinician Ranganath Muniyappa requested the drug to treat the patient, who suffered from refractory obesity with obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension, Stat News reported. Muniyappa, who did not respond to the outlet’s request for comment, reportedly recommended against bariatric surgery because of the patient’s age and medical conditions.

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.

MadameButterfly

(4,283 posts)
44. That would require discipline
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 06:55 PM
18 min ago

and give up his entitlement to have whatever he wants whenever he wants.

LetMyPeopleVote

(183,880 posts)
45. I am on Mounjaro and after my weekly shot, I have no or little appetite for a couple of days
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 06:59 PM
14 min ago

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)
34. Trump applied to be a test subject for a new weight loss drug?
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 04:11 PM
3 hrs ago

Now Trump will claim he was part of the research team, maybe even came up with the drug himself.

Figarosmom

(14,623 posts)
40. He's not signing because he's holding
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 05:13 PM
2 hrs ago

It hostage for his SAVE AMERICA bs and because this bill actually helps people but hurts his buddies in real-estate.

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