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Donald Trump’s math on cutting drug prices didn’t add up. Again.
The president this weekend repeated his worthwhile promise to get pharma companies to lower the cost of medications for Americans, who often have to pay much more for certain drugs than people abroad.
But the actual amount of the “tremendous drop” in cost that Trump boasted about had critics scratching their heads.
“You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%,” said Trump,
“I don’t mean 50%. I mean 14, 1,500%,” he added.
But as many on social media pointed out, that would mean all drugs are free and people actually get paid to receive them.
Also, drug prices haven’t actually reduced yet, despite Trump’s pressure on pharmaceutical companies. Trump appeared to acknowledge that when he later said, “We’ll be dropping drug prices by 1,200, 1,300 and even 1,400% and 500% but not just 50% or 25% which normally would be a lot because the rest of the world pays much less for the identical drug.”
Reality is “eroding before our eyes,” said one critic. Others agreed.
Tomorrow, it'll be eleventy thousand percent, and the media will report it without question, and we'll all shake our heads and move along, and it'll be just another day of reality eroding before our eyes. https://t.co/Hp9n0Yemqh
— Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@JenniferEValent) August 4, 2025100% would mean all drugs are free. So this is @realDonaldTrump seriously claiming that drug companies are now paying US 14 times the price of our medications just to take them. Dumbest man on the fucking planet. https://t.co/2Soqt5ysnd
— Andrew—#IAmTheResistance—Wortman (@AmoneyResists) August 4, 2025this was in the same discussion in which the president reiterated that he didn’t trust the math of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics on the economy: https://t.co/jfT16tOcTv
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) August 4, 2025There’s a real temptation here to make a joke, or to ask which drugs these are that pharma companies are now paying patients to take, because let’s all get in on it!
But honestly, all I can feel is sad that someone this stupid could be our president.
Again. https://t.co/IkMz8bcFlH
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This is how this works:
The prescription costs $100.
You go to the drug store to pick it up, and instead of paying the pharmacist, the pharmacist gives you the medicine AND $1,400!
Why didn’t any previous president think of this!? https://t.co/wA7oh5bw6y
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