Rep Ted Lieu on the new drug Trump is allegedly getting:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[malaise]

1. I saw terminal illness

and smiled 😀

[Dave Bowman]

15. And the whole world smiled with you. 😃

[malaise]

17. See how fast he showed up to lunch

to prove otherwise - hehehe

[HappyH]

30. Yeah, a cautious smile here.

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]

35. Life is a terminal disease.

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]

38. Of course you are right

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.

[SergeStorms]

47. I'm 77 myself.

I'm not at the end of the trail yet, but I can see it from here. 😉

I don't take life very seriously. I think that hastens one's demise, but I know as much about it as the next person. In my opinion it's the journey that matters, not the destination. ✌️

[Pinback]

2. "Or is it TACO Wednesday?"

[Swede]

4. Whopper Wednesday was already taken (by Burger King)

[Pinback]

16. Ha!

Good one. A whopper a day keeps the Epstein files at bay.

[lastlib]

19. Every day is Whopper Day with The Felon......

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

[Blue Owl]

48. I'd take Thrombosis Thursday

Or Funeral Friday….

[aeromanKC]

3. You just don't go to the mic and say that without there being some there there.

These statements are making me thirsty!! 🍾

[EdmondDantes_]

42. Compassionate use exemptions are typically for serious or life threatening illnesses

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]

5. How was it known in the first place that a VIP 79 yo

received the drug?

[Kingofalldems]

9. Last night I saw what appeared to be an official form.

[Disaffected]

11. OK but how did it become public?

Or was it leaked?

[Kingofalldems]

14. Leaked most likely.

[Manatee]

6. He's

80

[Torchlight]

7. 79 when drug was reportedly administered

[Kingofalldems]

12. Hmm. Interesting.

79 when first given drug. Just turned 80.

[malaise]

18. Yes but the form was before the birthday n/t

[barbtries]

20. when it was prescribed

and provided, he was 79.

[Manatee]

8. Retatrutide

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]

22. A GLP-1 weight-loss drug is not exactly a "terminal illness" drug.

Color me disappointed.

[Manatee]

23. Yeah

doesn't seem like anything to get excited about.

[Torchlight]

31. It shows

[Skittles]

37. can you even imagine his "ozempic face"

gross

[PuraVidaDreamin]

49. LoL

Ew gross

[Ruby the Liberal]

50. Is that confirmed? (Edit - yes)

I wouldn't think this could be considered something that would trigger compassionate use. Unless he got it in his head and demanded it.


On edit - someone posted a writeup below. reads to me like the urgent need was the fact that the current ones didn't offset the midnight McDonalds binges. I'm going with just another ego injury temper tandrum.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221327272#post29

[senseandsensibility]

10. Seriously, Lieu is not one to just spitball

Anyone have any idea what is behind this?

[tinrobot]

26. There was a weird FDA exception for the drug

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]

32. Yeah I heard about that.

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

[Botany]

13. Don't tease me!

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

[calimary]

21. Or me!!!

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]

24. Because you are a thinking human being.

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]

25. Given that he has often called for the execution of people he doesn't like, I don't think we need...

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

[Bumbles]

27. I don't think it would be bad Karma at all.

You are being truly compassionate in wanting to end his misery. That it happens to end ours as well is only coincidental.

[MadameButterfly]

36. I don't want him to die

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]

41. maybelline couchhumper and thiel are already running things. krasnov is far

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]

43. JD supports the stuff Trump is doing

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]

28. All I can say is that IF Trump got this special weight loss medication...

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

[buzzycrumbhunger]

33. What if we take up a collection

… 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]

29. If trump is the patient, then also he has refractory obesity with obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension

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.

[Historic NY]

39. Donesn't seems to slow down his feeding his face with crap.

[MadameButterfly]

44. That would require discipline

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

[LetMyPeopleVote]

45. I am on Mounjaro and after my weekly shot, I have no or little appetite for a couple of days

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

[chowmama]

46. Appetite is different than eating as a substitute for other needs

Nobody eats like Trump does because he's physically hungry. He's trying to fill a void that's literally bottomless. Drugs be damned, he'll never stop until he's unconscious for so long every day that he doesn't have time to get all the food in.

I once knew somebody that actually had the surgery to make it impossible to ingest that much. Afterwards, she both substituted high calorie liquids and ate beyond her new comfort level until everything stretched to accommodate her previous habits.

She'd been supposed to attend therapy to address her issues. Instead, she beat the surgery. She's dead now.

[sop]

34. Trump applied to be a test subject for a new weight loss drug?

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

[Figarosmom]

40. He's not signing because he's holding

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

[LetMyPeopleVote]

51. MS NOW-Sen. Maggie Hassan questions Trump administration over mystery weight loss drug patient

“This decision to bend the rules comes as millions of Americans are clamoring for access to these kinds of life-changing drugs,” Hassan wrote in a letter shared exclusively with MS NOW.

Sen. Maggie Hassan questions Trump administration over mystery weight loss drug patient - MS NOW apple.news/ANIqbYizyQ9u...

— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2026-06-25T04:39:20.154Z

https://www.ms.now/news/maggie-hassan-retatrutide-patient-white-house

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., on Wednesday questioned the Trump administration over the mystery individual who got exclusive access to a new weight loss drug that is not available to the general public.

Hassan penned a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressing concern over reports that a “well-connected individual,” whom she suggested is President Donald Trump, received special, free access to the experimental weight loss drug retatrutide.

The New Hampshire Democrat shared the letter with MS NOW in an exclusive interview with “The Weeknight.”

“We’ve got somebody highly connected in this administration who’s making special deals for one person and it just speaks to the whole way this administration operates,” Hassan told MS NOW. “They’re thinking about the highly connected, the wealthy.”

In her letter to Kennedy, the congresswoman said she was concerned that the administration was “bending the rules” by giving an individual special access to the drug through the Food and Drug Administration.

“I am deeply concerned by new reporting that suggests you may be bending the rules of a federal program, and exerting improper political pressure, in order to provide a well-connected individual with free access to an exclusive prescription drug,” the senator wrote to Kennedy.