Elon Musk has revealed his new, slimmer ‘Ozempic Santa’ figure – and it appears to clash with the stance that President-elect Donald Trump’s health secretary has on weight loss drugs.
Wearing a Santa Claus outfit, Musk looked visibly thinner especially around the waistline in a photo he shared on his platform X (formerly Twitter) on Christmas Day.
Musk, who will co-lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, captioned the post ‘Ozempic Santa’.
He clarified he is actually taking a similar drug called Mounjaro, which involves a non-insulin injection once a week and following diet and exercise guidelines to improve blood sugar for individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
‘Mounjaro seems to have fewer side effects and be more effective,’ Musk said of the drug compared to Ozempic, which he admitted to also trying.
Whether it be Ozempic or Mounjaro, using weight loss drugs runs counter to the views of Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
In his Make America Healthy Again campaign, Kennedy pushed better diet and life choices instead of relying on drugs.
‘If we just gave good food, three meals a day, to every man, woman and child in our country, we could solve the obesity and diabetes epidemic overnight,’ said Kennedy on Fox News prior to the November election.
And on December 12 after Trump won the election, Kennedy said: ‘The first line of response should be lifestyle. It should be eating well, making sure that you don’t get obese, and that those GLP (glucagon-like peptide) drugs have a place.’
Musk the day before had vouched for GLP drugs for weight loss.
‘Nothing would do more to improve the health, lifespan and quality of life for Americans than making GLP inhibitors super low cost to the public. Nothing else is even close,’ he wrote on X.
It isn’t the first time that Musk and Kennedy have seemed at odds on health matters.
In a viral photo posted on X by Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr, the pair, Musk, Kennedy and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson posed for a photo aboard the president-elect’s private plane while poised to eat food from McDonald’s.
‘Make America Healthy Again starts TOMORROW,’ Trump Jr captioned it.
Trump and Trump Jr flashed wide smiles while Johnson and Musk grinned. But social media users swooped in on Kennedy, who appeared to look uncomfortable while holding a burger or sandwich in his hands.
‘Bobby is trying to be a good sport, but really crying inside,’ one X user remarked.
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