It seems that one “brilliant businessman” felt President Donald Trump was pretty obtuse earlier this week.
On Monday, a press conference meant to talk about drug pricing took a weird turn when Trump unleashed an unhinged diatribe about an unnamed and “overweight” friend taking a weight-loss drug — or as Trump called it, “the fat shot.”
“A friend of mine who is a businessman. Very, very, very top guy. Most of you would’ve heard of him. Highly neurotic. Brilliant businessman. Seriously overweight. And he takes the fat, the fat shot drug,” Trump began.
“And he called me up, and he said, ‘Uh, president’ — he calls me president, he used to call me Donald, now he calls me president, so that’s nice respect,” Trump continued.
After getting lost in his own tangent for a bit, Trump went on to describe what his friend said on the call.
“‘I’m in London. And I just paid for this damn fat drug I take.’ I said, ‘It’s not working,’” Trump joked. “He said, ‘I just paid $88. And in New York, I pay $1,300. What the hell is going on?’”
Well, it seems that this unnamed friend wasn’t thrilled about the president airing this tidbit about his personal life publicly, or at least according to Trump.
On Tuesday, Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity aboard Air Force One that his unidentified friend called to confront him after the Monday press conference.
“I’m just glad I didn’t use his name,” Trump told Hannity.
“He’s actually a very rich guy, he’s a very successful guy. He’s very happy, he knows exactly who I was talking about. He called, he said, ‘That was interesting.’ He said he was very concerned that I might use his name.” The president added that the buddy “doesn’t have to worry.”
Although Trump didn’t use his pal’s name, the president sure gave the public a few hints. So much so that Seth Meyers couldn’t help poking fun at how unslick Trump was about describing his friend on his late show Monday.
“If your friend is so neurotic, as you say he is,” Meyers questioned about Trump. “He must be loving you slowly describing his identity to the national press.”