Time to Get Really Worried America: Donald Trump Will Be Reducing Cost of Medicines by 1000% in a year... by Doubling Their Prices

Time to get really worried America: Donald Trump will be reducing cost of medicines by 1000% in a year... by doubling their prices

A month ago, Donald Trump announced that his administration would cut drug prices by 1,500%. That’s mathematically impossible, since it would mean not only free drugs but that pharmaceutical companies would actually pay you. Of course, Trump has his own speech rhythms, so most experts assumed he was just being hyperbolic as usual — but he doubled down on the claim of a 1,000+% decrease in drug prices in the U.S. Trump has been pushing the pharma…

Trump Vows $10 Pills Will Cost $20 After a 1,000% Cut in Latest Mental Misfire

Donald Trump just broke math on live TV—promising a 1,000% price cut that turns $10 pills into $20, leaving even a Fox News host visibly baffled. In a recent appearance on The Story with Martha MacCallum, the 79-year-old president made a sweeping promise about drug prices that defied the laws of mathematics—and then immediately contradicted himself. “We’re gonna be reducing drug costs over the next year, year and a half… by a thousand percent,” …

'His brain is mush': Trump mercilessly mocked over 'unintelligible' rant about drug prices

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, President Donald Trump claimed that over the next year to a year and a half, drug costs in the U.S. will be reduced — “not 50 or 60 percent but by 1000 percent.”He elaborated using an example: a $10 pill could go to $20 under some “world” pricing, and then ...

'His brain is mush': Trump brutally mocked over 'unintelligible' rant about drug prices

In an interview with Fox News Thursday, President Donald Trump claimed that over the next year to a year and a half, drug costs in the U.S. will be reduced — “not 50 or 60 percent but by 1000 percent.” He elaborated using an example: a $10 pill could go to $20 under some “world” pricing, and then back to $20 for U.S. citizens — language that many found confusing and mathematically impossible to interpret literally."Because it's the world versus …

Grandpa Pudding Brains' impossible promise on drug prices and other flubs

Not only is Donald Trump unable to pronounce the names of countries, but he also struggles with basic math and mistakes the phrase "a big ocean" as some sort of defense against a country with a Navy, Air Force, and ICBMs. — Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains' impossible promise on drug prices and other flubs appeared first on Boing Boing.