Elon Musk admitted in a festive Christmas post that he is taking an Ozempic-like weight loss drug while wearing a Santa outfit next to the tree on Christmas Day.
Specifically, the billionaire Tesla CEO said he takes Mounjaro, a drug that typically treats type 2 diabetes by lowering a person’s blood sugar levels.
Musk posted a photo of himself in a Santa suit posing in front of a Christmas tree and wrote: “Ozempic Santa.”
In two subsequent replies to his post, he added: ‘Like Cocaine Bear, but Santa and Ozempic! Technically, Mounjaro, but it doesn’t have the same ring to it.’
The Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority approved Mounjaro under the brand name Zepbound in November 2023 to serve as a weight management medicine for people struggling with being overweight or obese.
Musk has already expressed his support for weight loss drugs in a December 11 post message on X: ‘Nothing would do more to improve the health, longevity and quality of life of Americans than making (GLP-1 drugs) super low cost to the public. Nothing else even comes close.”
Some of the most well-known GLP-1 drugs are Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound.
Musk’s views on the issue clash with those of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Elon Musk, dressed in a Santa Claus costume and standing in front of the Christmas tree, revealed on Wednesday that he was taking Mounjaro, a drug similar to Ozempic
Musk’s views don’t quite match those of Robert Kennedy Jr. RFK Jr. could soon lead the Department of Health and Human Services if the Senate confirms him
Shortly after his nomination in mid-November, RFK Jr. joins Greg Gutfeld’s late night show to criticize how an estimated 9 million prescriptions are written annually in the US for weight-loss drugs like Ozempic.
“We spend $1.6k a month on this drug. There is a bill currently before Congress that will make it available to anyone who is overweight… that alone will cost $3 trillion a year.
“If we spend about a fifth of that on giving good food, three meals a day, to every man, woman and child in our country, we could solve the obesity and diabetes epidemic overnight.”
RFK Jr. however, slightly changed his tone on Ozempic during an interview with CNBC at the New York Stock Exchange on December 12, the day Trump was invited to ring the opening bell.
RFK Jr.’s turnaround also came a day after Musk, who has become one of Trump’s closest allies and supporters, publicly voiced his support behind the drug.
‘The first response should be lifestyle. It has to be eating right, making sure you don’t become obese, and making sure those GLP medications have a place,” RFK Jr. said.
Trump himself has been the subject of the Ozempic rumors that have plagued almost all the rich and famous who have gotten slimmer in recent months.
In May, when Trump was the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Joy Behar of “The View” blurted out that he was on Ozempic after co-host Sunny Hostin said he looked “skinny” when she saw him in person.
Musk has become one of Trump’s closest allies, spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help the Republican president-elect win a second term
Musk has also become a near-constant presence in Trump’s daily activities, to the point that some Democrats have wondered who is really in charge
Hostin saw him outside his hush money trial in Manhattan and commented on both his skin color and his weight.
“It’s a burnt sienna. I had never seen it in real life and I didn’t know it was that orange. Ana (Navarro) jokes about how orange he is… it almost looks like a radioactive orange,” Hostin said of Trump.
Sunny continued, “It’s very shocking to see it in person, it really is, because he’s a tall person and now he’s a little bit skinnier too. I don’t know if he’s taking the picture or something…” before Joy interjected and claimed : “He’s on Ozempic, you know that!”
Trump recently blasted his Ozempic-supporting ally after both Democrats and social media users derisively called him “vice president” and suggested Musk was really in charge.
During a more than hour-long speech at conservative Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix on Sunday, Trump said that even if Musk wanted to become president, he couldn’t.
“No, he’s not going to be president, I can tell you that,” Trump told the crowd.
‘And I’m safe. Do you know why he can’t be? He was not born in this country,” he continued.
Musk, the richest man in the world, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping the Republican president-elect win a second term and has been a near-constant presence at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home ever since.