Trump Gives Out the Wrong URL for His Drug Website During Chaotic Press Conference

President Donald Trump held a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday to announce a deal with large drug companies to lower the price of some weight-loss drugs. But it was a chaotic event to say the least, with Trump giving out the wrong domain name for his new website, false claims from Trump officials, and even a pharmaceutical exec fainting.

Trump first announced that deals had been made to reduce the price of Eli Lilly’s Zepbound and Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. Trump claims the cost of Zepbound will drop from $1,080 to $346 and the cost of Wegovy will go from $1,300 to $250 a month, though it’s not yet clear whether that will be true for everyone.

The White House often misleads the public about the real impact of its efforts to reform healthcare costs. And Trump often makes splashy announcements that turn out to be wildly misleading after the public learns the full context.

“$1,300 to $250, did I do a good job? They don’t write about it,†Trump said, pointing at the reporters in the room, “you know, they like to not write these things.â€

“You think Biden could’ve done this? I don’t think so,†said Trump, desperate to claim credit for a win.

Trump said the drugs were “often called Ozempic,†though that’s not true. Ozempic is a GLP-1 drug, but Zepbound and Wegovy are different medications. Trump also said that new oral versions that don’t need to be injected will be coming soon.

“All of these drugs will be available directly to the consumer at TrumpRX.gov,†said Trump, initially giving out the correct name of the website. The president repeated a claim he has made in the past that an undefined “they†wanted to use his name for the website, but that it wasn’t his idea.

Trump then turned to Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, to ask about when TrumpRX.com would launch. The problem, of course, is that the website is actually hosted at TrumpRX.gov, not .com. The president said .com twice, leading some people to check that domain. The news outlet Mediaite even claimed that the TrumpRX website had crashed, though that’s not really true. The .gov domain is up, but the .com domain, which has no known affiliation with the government, is just a blank page.

The TrumpRX.gov website was first launched in early October, but didn’t provide any functionality, instead serving as a landing page with photos of Trump and an AI-generated family on a beach. But consumers can’t do anything on the site. Oz said Thursday that it will be launched with real utility (“giving prices†according to Oz) by the end of the year. But Oz didn’t correct the president, who had specifically asked him about the .com domain.

The rest of the press conference was yet another session for the president’s underlings to heap praise on Trump. Oz claimed that the administration expects Americans will lose “135 billion pounds†by the midterms, an absurd claim when you actually do the math. As data journalist Philip Bump pointed out on Bluesky, that’s about 400 pounds per person.

But the most bizarre incident from the press conference came at the end, when Novo Nordisk executive Gordon Findlay collapsed. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. darted out of the camera frame for some unknown reason, and several people scrambled to help the fallen man. And Trump just looked on with a pathetically angry face.

The White House aides started ordering the journalists out of the Oval Office as Trump just looked on at the man on the floor. Trump then turned his attention away from the man, standing in front of his desk, clearly annoyed.

The photos of the incident almost instantly became a meme on social media.

It’s unclear what happened to the executive, and there haven’t been any updates at the time of this writing.