Donald Trump Says He’s Never Taken GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs, but ‘I Probably Should’

President Donald Trump said he may need to lose weight, making the remark during a recent interview with several New York Times journalists.

Speaking from the Oval Office in a wide-ranging conversation, Trump, 79, discussed his health roughly a week after drawing attention with comments to The Wall Street Journal about taking a large daily dose of aspirin.

In the interview published Wednesday, Jan. 7, Trump said he has never used GLP-1 weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy or Zepbound, but added, “I probably should.”

The Trump administration announced a deal in November 2025 aimed at lowering the cost of GLP-1 drugs. Trump said he has not taken the medications, but at a White House event about the agreement, he publicly named members of his administration who he said do.

Trump also emphasized that he has taken frequent medical evaluations, telling the Times, “I’ve gone out of my way to take physical exams more than anybody,” and adding that he believes presidents should be healthy physically and “good cognitively.”

A formal summary of Trump’s physical exam from April 2025 indicated he had lost 20 pounds since his first term. His weight was listed as 224 pounds last spring, down from 244 pounds in 2020.

At 6-foot-3, Trump falls into the overweight category on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s BMI calculator.

Despite that, Trump has a history of criticizing others’ appearances. He has been accused of telling a Miss Universe contestant to “Suck your gut in,” and of calling another contestant “Miss Piggy.” In 2019, he also mocked the weight of a Navy veteran at a rally in New Hampshire, telling him to “Go home, start exercising,” after mistakenly assuming the man was a protester.

Trump has also said he is not fond of exercise beyond golf. He told WSJ earlier this month, “I just don’t like it. It’s boring. To walk on a treadmill or run on a treadmill for hours and hours like some people do, that’s not for me.”

The Times has previously reported that Trump doesn’t believe in exercise and has suggested he views energy as a limited reserve that can be depleted by vigorous activity “like a battery.”

He is also known to favor fast food, including McDonald’s. In an October 2025 podcast interview, Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters said Trump once ate a meal of french fries, a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, a Big Mac, and a Filet-O-Fish while traveling to a campaign event, according to WSJ.

Trump has acknowledged for years that he would like to drop weight. In a 2016 interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz, when he was reportedly 236 pounds, he said, “I think I could lose a little weight.”

“I’ve always been a little bit this way,” Trump added at the time. “I think that if I had one thing, I’d like to lose weight. It’s tough because of the way I live. But the one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15 to 20 pounds. It would be good.”

During that same interview, Trump also suggested that his on-stage hand gestures during campaign events were a “form of exercise,” saying that campaigning “in its own way” can be healthy, and noting that venues can feel “very hot like saunas.”