Song of the Day 5/7: “Weird Al” Yankovic, “Fat”

You can tell Donnie Two Scoops is on Ozempic (or Wegovy, they’re the same thing, just different doses) because he’s taken to mocking people for being fat. At a fundraiser in Texas for Rep. Ronny Jackson, the erstwhile White House doctor who lied about Trump’s weight, Trump said Tester “looks pregnant to me. … He doesn’t look like a fat guy, except that his stomach is out.”

Tester is 6 feet tall and officially about 300 pounds, so pretty much the same as Trump before the drug regimen began, except that Tester carries his weight out front, while Trump has a fat ass that he’s probably never noticed. Tester, who owns an 1,800-acre farm he worked himself before his election to the Senate, is probably in much better shape; reporters tend to describe him as “burly.”

Fat-shaming is out of fashion these days anyway, and I think Weird Al doesn’t get enough credit as a body-positivity pioneer. In the late ’80s, when Michael Jackson was posing as a tough guy in his videos, Yankovic parodied “Beat It” with “Eat It.” When Jackson doubled down with “Bad,” Yankovic responded by donning a fat suit and proclaiming, “Don’t call me pudgy, portly or stout.”

Yankovic said the concept for the video, which won an MTV award in 1988, came to him when he imagined himself in a fat suit getting stuck in a subway turnstile. Jackson wasn’t merely OK with the spoof – he let Yankovic film the video on the “Bad” set.