President Donald Trump froze in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon as a man collapsed while standing just behind him.
A group of pharmaceutical executives and Trump officials were gathered for the president’s announcement that he had reached a deal with major drug companies to slash weight loss drug prices when the chaos unfolded.
The man was looking on as Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks was speaking before he stumbled and collapsed.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who had just spoken, jumped to attention and quickly rushed over to help as those standing around him grabbed the man before he hit the ground.
Trump slowly got up from where he was seated at his desk and looked on as others laid the man out on the ground. He continued to stand nearby watching quietly.
While others rushed to assist, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. could also be seen quietly stepping away. His office claimed it was to get help.
The press including reporters and photographers were quickly hustled from the room.
The White House has released a statement saying the man was OK and being treated, but it did not identify him.
Trump had just been touting the agreement that would cut prices for so-called GLP-1 drugs for Medicare and Medicaid recipients starting next year. It would also offer treatment directly to consumers on the discount website TrumpRx.gov.
There are several reports that the person was a patient who uses a GLP-1 drug. [Ed.: they won't be using him in an endorsement.] ... (our emphasis)
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The website TrumpRx.com is currently unavailable, just minutes after President Donald Trump announced it as a portal for newly discounted weight loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound, which are also sold under the diabetes treatment brands Ozempic and Mounjaro, respectively.
There is a layer of irony revealed by the fact that it went down after Trump made clear to his staff assembled in the Oval Office to make sure it doesn’t fail in the way that the enrollment process for ACA (also known as ObamaCare) also crashed in its earliest days due to popularity combined with poor planning — a fact that anyone watching Trump’s Oval Office statement was reminded of by Trump himself.
“To sell these drugs to all consumers at deeply discounted prices via TrumpRx.com,” the president read from a prepared statement before asking aloud, “When is TrumpRX.com opening?”
Someone off camera replied, “The site is open, and it will launch in terms of giving people prices before the end of the year.”
“Okay, got to make sure it’s successful, it’s got my name on it,” Trump replied. “I don’t want to be like the train they’re building in California, which has about 15,000 percent cost overrun. Or the Obama, the beautiful Obama building that he’s building in Chicago for the museum, which has now shuttered up and dead. They got it up, and they couldn’t finish. It’s about, would you say, five years behind schedule? And about 2000% over budget, then he tells us how to run Medicaid.” (our emphasis)
It seems almost unnecessary to point out that Everything Trump Touches Dies (well, not literally; the man who collapsed is, fortunately, ok, and the web site may go back up, but you get the idea).
It also seems almost unnecessary to point out that Commander Cankles could be a candidate for those obesity drugs himself, but we'll point it out anyway.
BONUS:
“I really don’t care. Do u?”
— Tim O’Brien (@timobrien.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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His expression is worse than the proverbial deer-in-the-headlights. The deer knows it's in deep kim-chee but doesn't know how to get out but the First Felon looks like a zombie though one that searches for offal rather than brains.
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