Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump’s ‘Viral’ Reaction to Pharma Exec Fainting at Presser: ‘Worth a Thousand Words’

David Gilmour Nov 7th, 2025, 9:22 am

host Stephen Colbert mused that “almost everybody” dashed to help a Big Pharma exec who fainted during a drug pricing reform presser at the Oval Office, seizing on a still photo of President Donald Trump’s reaction that he said was “worth a thousand words.”

During the Oval Office event Thursday, as the president announced agreements with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to lower the price of some GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, Novo Nordisk executive Gordon Findlay suddenly collapsed .

Colbert rolled the clip as he closed out his monologue to open Thursday night’s show.

“I’m sure that was scary. But thankfully, the room was full of exactly wh

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