President Donald Trump admitted he “probably” should be on the “fat drug.”
Trump, 79, got quizzed about his use of GLP-1 drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic in a two-hour sitdown with The New York Times on Wednesday.
Asked whether he had ever used the popular drugs for diabetes and weight loss, Trump replied, “No, I have not. I probably should.”
Trump clocked in at a claimed 6’ 3” and 224 pounds in his last physical exam, according to his physician Sean Barbabella. This puts his body mass index in the overweight category, though Barbabella has consistently described the president as being in “excellent health.”
Trump’s official weight has fluctuated slightly over the years. He went from a claimed 239 pounds in 2018 to 243 pounds in 2019 and 244 pounds in 2020. His vital statistics have long been widely questioned.
The White House did not immediately respond to an inquiry about potential plans to put the president on weight-loss medication, which he has previously dubbed “fat drugs.”
Trump made the admission just days after he asked photographers to make him look “thin.”
Trump was delivering remarks at a GOP retreat at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday when he noticed Doug Mills, a photographer for the Times, in front of him. Mills bagged a Pulitzer Prize for images he took of Trump during the 2024 assassination attempt.
“Pulitzer Prize! Right there. Pulitzer Prize! He got one for the bullet,” Trump said, pointing at the photographer.
“These are the ones that take the pictures. Make me look thin for a change, Doug,” he quipped. “You’re making me look a little bit heavy. I’m not happy about it.”
Trump, who rose to fame as a New York socialite and TV personality, has always been conscious of his public image.
In October, he threw a fit on Truth Social after TIME magazine used an unflattering photo of him on the cover. The shot was taken from a low angle, highlighting the drooping skin on his neck and making his hair appear nearly invisible against the sky above him.
“The picture may be the Worst of All Time,” he said at the time. “They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”
A month later, Trump outed one of his top aides as a GLP-1 user.
At a press conference announcing an effort to slash the cost of the drugs, Trump asked officials surrounding the Resolute Desk whether any of them have taken the shots.
“You taking any of this stuff, Howard?” he asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who replied, “Not yet.”
“CMS administrator Mehmet Oz, he doesn’t take it,” Trump went on.
“Where’s Steve?” he added, referring to White House Communications Director Steven Cheung. “Head of public relations for the White House. He’s taking it.”
Trump hasn’t shown much interest in adopting a balanced diet and a regular exercise routine in his apparent quest to lose weight.
His diet is notoriously heavy with junk food. Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters once said he saw Trump eat McDonald’s fries, a Filet-O-Fish, a Quarter Pounder, and a Big Mac all in one sitting. The president also has a Diet Coke button on his desk that triggers a soda delivery when pressed.
When it comes to physical activity, playing golf appears to be as far as Trump will go.
“I just don’t like it. It’s boring,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal of his opinion of exercise. “To walk on a treadmill or run on a treadmill for hours and hours like some people do, that’s not for me.”
