Trump Touts Reductions in Drug Prices, Blames Democrats for ACA Premium Increases

Fox News Anchor Corners Trump Goon Over President’s ‘Impossible’ Math

Not even Fox News was buying the Trump administration’s nonsense claim that the president has lowered some prescription drug prices by as much as “600 percent.” Fox anchor John Roberts on Thursday confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about that assertion, which was one of several off-the-mark boasts by the president in his primetime address the night before. Roberts, 69, noted that what Trump said was “mathematically impossible.” “If you…

Watch Trump's dumbest adviser fail at basic math

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick served a heaping bowl of rationalization during an appearance on Fox News while attempting to explain President Donald Trump’s ongoing insistence that he single-...

Lutnick grilled by Fox over Trump’s ‘mathematically impossible’ drug cuts claim

Trump claimed he has negotiated with drug companies to cut prices by ‘as much as 400, 500 and even 600 percent’

'How stupid he sounds': Trump official mocked after Fox host confronts him on 'hyperbole'

Even Fox News is skeptical of claims coming from President Donald Trump's administration, according to one recent exchange on the conservative network.During a Thursday interview with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Fox host John Roberts pointed out that Trump's claim during his Wednesday night address that he had lowered prescription drug prices by up to 600 percent was "mathematically impossible.""If you cut something by 100 percent, the co…

'Mathematically impossible': Fox News host busts Trump's lie about 600% cut to drug costs

Fox News host John Roberts told White House aide Howard Lutnick that President Donald Trump's claim of cutting drug prices by 600% was "mathematically impossible.""I'm going to ask you about the reality versus the perception," Roberts said the day after Trump's speech to the nation. "Because some of...

Trump Touts Reductions in Drug Prices, Blames Democrats for ACA Premium Increases

(MedPage Today) -- In one of the shortest speeches of his presidency so far, President Trump on Wednesday evening suggested that he had helped to decrease drug prices by more than 100%, a mathematically impossible feat. "I'm doing what no politician...