In an extremely odd case, a single 79-year-old patient was granted early access to Eli Lilly’s powerful, still-experimental obesity drug retatrutide through the Food and Drug Administration’s “compassionate use” program—raising immediate questions if that sole patient is President Donald Trump, according to a report by Stat News.
Lilly’s retatrutide is a highly anticipated next-generation obesity drug that targets GIP and glucagon hormones in addition to GLP-1. It is currently in late-stage trials to treat obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea, and other conditions. Data from a Phase 3 trial that Lilly released in May indicates that patients with obesity (but without diabetes) who took the drug for 80 weeks lost 28 percent of their weight, an amount comparable to bariatric surgery.
Millions of Americans with obesity are eager to get the drug, with options being limited so far to enrolling in a clinical trial or trying to obtain it by dodgy methods.
But according to a barebones public notice and Stat’s sources, a single person has been granted early access through the expanded access, aka “compassionate use” pathway, which is typically used to grant access to patients with a “serious or immediately life-threatening disease or condition” and who are not able to enroll in a clinical trial, often because they are too ill.
The access request was first made in April, when the person was 79 years old (Trump turned 80 on June 14). It was made by a senior clinician at the National Institutes of Health named Ranganath Muniyappa, who requested it on behalf of a patient with refractory obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, and pulmonary hypertension, which is high blood pressure in the lungs. Sources told Stat this patient had spent a year on tirzepatide, a drug that targets the GLP-1 and GIP hormones. But the patient had achieved only moderate weight loss on the drug.
He needs dementia drugs more.
Just imagine how much more disgusting he would look if he lost 50-100 pounds and he was a shambling pile of loose skin.
Turns out the wicked witch of the west was orange; not green…
I’d prefer Raiders of the Lost Ark to The Wizard of Oz in this specific case.
It’s got literal Nazis so that tracks.
like one of those zombies that had all the fat and flesh rot out, but their skin… sun tanned and dried, hangs on, like some kind of moribund hipster fashionista bag.
It would be extremely funny if he cheated his way to early entry, and then it turns out it isn’t safe for old fucks. Like maybe that hasn’t been tested since it’s still early enough in trials.
Until we find out that one of the side effects is violent psychotic dementia
one of the side effects is violent psychotic dementia
It’s not a side effect if the patient already suffers from it…
retatrutide
I had to do a double take to make sure it was retardicide… That surely would have gotten rid of the fucker
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retardutide?
The patient’s name? John Baron
I’ve got three family members taking this drug and have both lost a ton of weight. All of them have lost sunstantial amounts of weight. My brother is down 70 pounds.
Ain’t no way Trump is taking it. He’s still fat as shit.
He’s lost 70 lbs in morals and human decency.
The drug works by killing your appetite. Trump’s a long-time abuser of amphetamines, which do the same thing. His current obesity means a reduction in appetite did nothing for him, which is probably why the previous anti-obesity drugs also failed.
He can’t resist Whoppers.
As far as we know all he eats is McDonald’s so is anyone surprised?
trump is immune to constipation due to the drug abuse.
seems like overeats/addicted, GLP-1 likely would work on that.
Do any of your family members eat McDonald’s 3 times a day and only sleep 4 hours a night?
remember also large diet sodas too.
They used to.
Has he tried copious amounts of injected bleach? Everybody says it works wonders.
Eeplacing mayo on burgers with Ivermectin should also help.
There’s a new medical procedure that needs to be done only once. Kinetic injection of lead to the brain. So simple it can be self administered, or with the help of a friend in line of sight.
As a bit of a thought experiment, would it be possible to make a web app the allows users to calculate trajectory based on live weather data and other data points to give people an easy way to fire into the sky and have the lead land accurately near fascists
Might be a fun project.
With a few tweaks Gorillas.bat could accomplish this. I’d do it, but my QBasic coding chops are a little stale.
There is no brain there, only poop mush … You need something stronger.
Better to nuke that fat away.
In fact, it will prevent you from ever gaining weight again! Miracle!
the side effect is autism
This is like a yo momma joke. Yr prez is so fat they had to invent a new type of triple-ozempic
When the president sits around the house he sits around the house, with a tween.
Let’s pray for non trivial side effects. And I’m not even religious
If it is, pulmonary hypertension will kill him regardless.
🤞
Not only that, there’s a chance we’ll get to see it. A sudden physical collapse after which he never leaves the hospital is not unlikely.
Buy extra fireworks this year and hold onto them, is all I’m saying.
Please let go of them once you light them up
Good idea. Kind of excited to be the house in my rural somewhat conservative area shooting off fireworks that night lol.
Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?
Stat reporter Lizzy Lawrence replied, saying, “I asked you, the FDA, and HHS multiple times yesterday whether this application was for the President. No one answered my question directly.” Desai then seemed to confirm that no one had answered the question, calling it an “idiotic question.”
I’m gonna have to agree with Desai here. It’s a stupid fucking question. As much as I hate the guy, the only link is a 79 year old. This is national enquirer level of reporting.
No, the only links are “79 years old,” “name not given,” and “literally the only person in the country who was approved for this”
That doesn’t strike you as “Hmm, maybe we should see if the fat-assed President is once again abusing his office for personal gain?”
“Name not given” applies to every person alive, and “only one person” also applies to everyone alive. Therefore the only link to Trump is “79-year old”, and I suppose “obese”, but the nature of the treatment and approval says to me that it rules him out instead of includes him.
As far as investigating abusing his office for personal gain, this is like saying Dahmer is murderer because he stepped on a bug. Maybe investigate the bodies instead.
The thing is, getting this kind of exception doesn’t happen even when 5 million people sign a petition. The government is ruthless. Usually.
Yet here we are, a 79-year old got it. Usually you need the situation on national news before the relevant authorities would even begin to consider granting such an exemption. So the users of the program are never anonymous. They need to be exposed to the media in order to get it.
Yet here we are, a “random” 79 year old got it, and that’s all we know about them. So thinking the “random” person coincidentally the same age as Trump isn’t most likely to in fact be Trump is definitely not a stretch.
Surely a random 79 year-old from from North Korea is equally as likely to be the recipient of this as arguably the most powerful man alive, and unarguably in the country where it’s happening.
Why do you think it rules him out? IMO the rushed approval and special treatment says to me that it is him.
There’s no smoking gun proving it of course but it fits his MO.
Congrats; you aren’t curious enough to solve a fucking Scooby Doo mystery.
Why on earth you would (a) continue telling people that and then (b) insist that it makes you look like anything other than a pedantic dumbfuck is beyond explanation.
I would point out that it wasn’t just the age. It that, but also things like very few people on the planet knew this drug was being researched at Eli Lily. When you look at the pool of people that could have had access to that knowledge, fit the age, weight, and description of other symptoms, it becomes a little easier to guess.
The very few people on the planet who have access to their annual statement?
This isn’t skunk works.
“Only people in the know would be able to find this [notice], using the drug name,” Richard Klein, who helped launch the FDA’s expanded access program in the 1980s, told Stat. “There is something very wrong with the way this is listed because no one would know what it is from the listing, or what it’s for.”
Also it’s basic patient privacy. The journalist asking the question surely knows that.
And the drug name itself seems like a parody almost as if it’s really saying retard-itude.
I had to re-read it 3 times to not read retard-itude. That may not have been the best naming choice ever.
