Something unusual happened on The View on Thursday: the table of hosts found themselves in agreement with Elon Musk.
During a segment covering Musk and fellow MAGA ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s differing opinions on the weight loss drug Ozempic, the table found themselves jumping to Musk’s side on the issue.
Musk and Kennedy are both close allies of President-elect Donald Trump and have each been tapped to serve in some capacity in the incoming administration. Musk will be helping lead DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) and Kennedy has been tapped as the next Health and Human Services director.
In an X post on Wednesday, Musk signaled support for making drugs like Ozempic readily available to the American public. As some lawmakers have complained, that drug is sold at a far higher markup in the United States than other countries.
“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,” the X owner wrote. “Nothing else is even close.”
The most prominent GLP-1 drugs include Ozempic and Mounjaro.
Kennedy has been far more skeptical of the drugs, telling Fox News recently, “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.” Kennedy warned that Americans are “so addicted to drugs.”
Ozempic has also been used to curb addictions like alcoholism.
The hosts of The View are typically critical of Musk and anyone else orbiting Trump’s MAGA world, but they all found themselves aligned with Tesla owner against Kennedy. After the cost of the drug in other countries was pointed out, Whoopi Goldberg made a personal argument, showing off her own weight loss thanks to Mounjaro, which she began taking when she was nearly 300 pounds approximately two years ago.
“This isn’t just about food. This is sometimes people are born genetically larger,” she claimed.
Before showing off her weight loss, she laid into Kennedy for shaming people.
“You’re setting folks up for shame. That’s what you’re trying — maybe you don’t know you’re doing it. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt. I’m going to say you don’t know, you don’t realize what you do to people when you say stuff like that because it doesn’t work for everybody,” she said.
“The side effects are not horrible,” Joy Behar added before questioning why Musk or Kennedy’s opinion should be trusted on any medical issue. She added that perhaps some of these drugs could allow Kennedy’s admitted brain worm to “shrink.”
“Elon’s right on this,” Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out.
“Elon’s right on this!” Goldberg declared.
Watch above via ABC.
