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A man collapsed behind President Donald Trump during an Oval Office press conference on Thursday with drugmakers to expand coverage and reduce prices for popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy.

Officials rushed to help him after his collapse, and the press was quickly removed. As he collapsed, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz supported his head as he was lowered to the floor.

It was unclear what caused the collapse. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later told reporters that the man was a guest of one of the health care companies in attendance, Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk.

Any guess regarding what those giant gold discs are? Meme coins? Coasters from Studio 54?

Also too, amateur diagnoses of the patient’s presentation are more than welcome.

Bonus content: RFK flees scene:

. . . and Sandwich Man beats the wrap. What a hero:

 Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department’s case against “sandwich guy,” the D.C. resident who chucked a Subway sandwich at the chest of a federal officer, finding him not guilty Thursday after several hours of deliberations.

The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches — deliberated the charges for several hours Wednesday and Thursday before delivering the verdict.

The resident, Sean Dunn, a former Justice Department paralegal, faced a single misdemeanor count after a federal grand jury rejected more serious charges over the encounter, which took place in the nightlife area of U Street in August.

Border Patrol Officer Greg Lairmore received two “gag gifts” related to the incident — a plush sandwich and a patch featuring a cartoon of Dunn throwing the sandwich with the words “Felony Footlong” — which the defense team argued showed this was not a serious event in his life.

Lairmore had testified that the sandwich “exploded all over” his chest and claimed he could smell mustard and onions. But a photo showed that the sandwich was still in its wrapper on the ground after it hit Lairmore in his bulletproof vest.

Images of Dunn became a symbol of resistance to the Trump administration in Washington, with murals popping up on walls depicting a man throwing a sandwich, and with people placing sandwiches in the hands of giant skeletons for Halloween.

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