Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Donald and the "fat shots": taking a shot?



DIRECT QUOTE from Donald Trump on health care and prescription drugs:

"I'll tell you a story, a friend of mine who's a business man, very very very tough guy, most of you would have heard of him, highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat, the fat shot, and he called me up and he said, uhhhhhh, President, he calls me President, he used to call me Donald, so that's nice respect, but he's a rough guy, smart guy, very successful, very rich, I wouldn't even know how we would know this, could I ask you a question? I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take, I said it's not working. He said (long pause) I just paid $88, in New York I paid $1300, what the hell is going on? He said I checked and it's the same box, made in the same plant, by the same company, the identical pill (sic), a businessman, but he's not familiar with this crazy situation that we have, but (long pause) but he was stunned, but it was just one of those stories, I brought it up with the drug companies, represented by somebody who's very very smart, good person too, and we argued about it for about half hour, and finally he just said, because they can't justify it. He just said look (long pause, then in husky voice), look, you got me. You got me. I can no longer justify, they've been justifying this crap. Years, they said oh, it's research and development" (he rambled on incoherently for another five minutes, but you get the idea. Whoever his "friend" is, does he really want to be identified with "fat shots"?)

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