Trump Goes On Bizarre Rant About Ozempic When Bret Baier Presses Him On Prices For Consumers

President Donald Trump went on a bizarre rant about Ozempic when Fox News anchor Bret Baier pressed him about the potential effects of his policies on consumer prices.

Trump was in no mood to talk about prices during his pre-Super Bowl LIX interview with Baier, additional footage of which aired on Monday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report.

In one relatively tough exchange, Baier cornered by asking if he’d like to increase defense spending, then ticking through the expensive wish list of Trump priorities.

When Trump responded that tariffs would pay for everything, Baier said “And you’re not worried that any of that’s going to go back to the consumer.”

He responded with a rant about weight-poss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro that was riddled with inaccuracies, had nothing to do with tariffs (both drugs are produced in the United States), and included floating the adoption of the Bernie Sanders drug reimportation plan — which would then subject the drugs to whatever tariffs Trump ended up imposing:

BRET BAIER: I mean, the tough part is, is that if you don’t want to cut entitlements and you do want to add to defense spending, and you want to eliminate taxes on tips, and you want to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent. That’s a lot of money.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, But we’re going to take in tremendous amounts of money on tariffs. We’re going to have tariffs. We’re going to take in tremendous amounts of money. And you think some fair make up, some did not do. Well. DOGE is going to make up a lot, but that’s unrelated to tariffs.

It’s not fair that other countries have really taken advantage of us. And it’s our leaders’ fault. But I’m a different leader. It’s not fair that other countries have taken advantage of us for so many years. And now all of a sudden, we’re not allowed to have tariffs, but they’ve had tariffs for years.

You know, they’ve done this to us for years and we haven’t. And I think reciprocal tariffs I’ll be talking about it I think probably on Monday or Tuesday I have a whole big thing.

We have a very sophisticated plan. I want to have tariffs separately from that on steel, on autos on semiconductors and, and chips and probably pharmaceuticals.

BRET BAIER: And you’re not worried that any of that’s going to go back to the consumer.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It might, but it’s ultimately going to be much less expensive.

I’ll give you an example.

The so-called fat drug or fat, shot or whatever it’s called Ozempic or Mounjaro in London.

You get it for $88. In New York you get it for $1,200. You can’t even buy it. It’s very unfair. The identical package made in the same factory, shipped to different places, but made literally in the same factory in London.

It’s $88, and in New York it’s $1,200. And you can’t get it.

And the reason is because everything’s added on to the United States, because the United States has been too nice. You know, I had, I had transparency done and Biden canceled that transparency would have solved that problem.

But I’m going to solve it one way or the other, including, you know, they have a certain thing like rent control in New York, and I don’t like that. But at some point, nobody’s going to.

It’s not fair that other countries, you go to Canada all of the drugs are much less expensive. I suggested that some of the governors should go buy their drugs in Canada and send them back to here. It’s very simple. So I think we’re going to do some amazing things.

Watch above via Fox News Channel’s Special Report.