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President Donald Trump announced massive discounts to popular weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound — which are also available for Diabetes treatment under the brand names Ozempic and Mounjaro, respectively — on Thursday. During a press conference in the Oval Office and surrounded by many of his most senior aides, including HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump revealed that two of the world’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, Eli Lilly and Novartis, will offer weight loss drugs at drastic discounts. “So far, never heard anything bad about them, only good about them,” Trump ad libbed from his prepared remarks before asking his Kennedy, “Is there anything bad about them, Bobby? Someday, maybe it will come out, and we’ll notify you immediately. So far, I have not heard that, including Zepbound and Wegovy, often called Ozempic.” These weight loss drugs have proven to be remarkably effective, though also… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

Fox News’ John Roberts was left speechless after hearing Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) call President Donald Trump the “worst thing” on Earth in one of her final interviews before announcing her retirement from Congress. Roberts covered Pelosi’s “brutal” comments about Trump on America Reports while covering her Thursday announcement that she will not seek reelection after decades in office. Speaking with CNN over the weekend, Pelosi called Trump a “vile creature” and “the worst thing on the face of the Earth.” “He’s just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the Earth,” said Pelosi while speaking with CNN over the weekend even doubling down when asked if she really believes the president is the “worst thing” on the planet. Roberts found himself struggling to find words as he tried to make sense of Pelosi’s assessment in a world that includes terrorists and even the recent assassination… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) jibed that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) “likes to get the big interviews” as he was pressed by host Stephen A. Smith on the lawmaker’s public attacks on him, insisting that despite her criticism, “99.5%” of House Republicans back him. Throughout the ongoing government shutdown, Greene has been outspoken in her criticism of Johnson and the wider Republican leadership’s strategy for negotiating a way out of it. In multiple interviews, the MAGA lawmaker ripped Johnson as having “no plan” and, on Tuesday, raised audience applause during an appearance on ABC’s The View for saying she “yelled” at him. During his interview with Smith for SiriusXM political show, Straight Shooter with Stephen A., Johnson was pressed on how he felt about her comments. STEPHEN A. SMITH: Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on ABC’s The View on Tuesday. She says she blamed you, sir, for… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

YouTube Screenshot Katie Couric admitted during an interview with NBC News’ Jonathan Karl that she’s no longer trying to be “impartial” when she talks about President Donald Trump. The two journalists discussed Karl’s new book on Trump titled Retribution during a new episode of her podcast, Next Question With Katie Couric. “You say that he wants to be liked, he wants to be loved, he wants to be admired, but, good lord. I mean, have you ever seen someone going about wanting to be liked by behaving the way he does? By insulting people, by diminishing people, by behaving the way he does? It’s just, the pathology is so bizarro to me,” Couric said. “It’s really something,” Karl agreed. “I think part of the attacks is that it will please other people. It’s a crowd pleaser when he cuts down a reporter, or when he goes out and says the… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

(John Barrett/AP photo) Sean “Diddy” Combs is reportedly boasting to his fellow inmates that a presidential pardon is on the way, TMZ reported on Thursday. Combs, currently housed at FCI Fort Dix, has been telling fellow convicts that he’ll be out of prison early next year and will “take care of them” once he’s out, the outlet reported. When asked about a possible pardon for Combs at the White House back in May, President Donald Trump told Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy that he would “consider” a pardon for the “Finna Get Loose” rapper. “He used to really like me a lot, but I think when I ran for politics, he sort of — that relationship busted up, from what I read — I don’t know, he didn’t tell me that — but I’d read some, little bit nasty statements in the paper all of a sudden,” Trump… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.