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“This is something that nobody else can do,” Trump said during a reception with members of Congress Tuesday night. “We’re gonna get the drug prices down. Not 30 or 40 percent, which would be great, not 50 or 60, no. We’re gonna get ’em down 1,000 percent, 600 percent, 500 percent, 1,500 percent.”
He bragged that he could use a “certain talent” to reach “numbers not even thought to be achievable.” If anything, the president’s certain talent is to offer hyperbole in place of actual policy.
Trump’s phony math didn’t stop there. “We will have reduced drug prices by 1,000 percent, by 1,100, 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 700, 600; not 30 or 40 or 50 percent but numbers the likes of which you’ve never even dreamed of before,” he added later.
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I'm no rocket scientist, but I'm pretty sure if you reduce the price of something more than 100%, they will be paying YOU to take their product.
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lulugmxmq62w
Quoted article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-flubs-basic-math-concept-130954460.html
Gorgoror
He doesn't know waht "percentage" means...
spittleteets
We're in the post-truth era. Facts and statistics have been irrelevant the moment he came down that elevator and spewed nonsense.
jumpbus360
So it's INCONCEIVABLE you might say.
Also, I now have a headache. Every time I hear him speak, it just hurts my head. Whether the subject matter, his voice or simply his incoherent rambling. We are all now dumber for having listened to him talk.
Sebastopol140
By one hundred bazillion percent.
tonehoundsmoser9
Sadly this mf would be a much better leader than youknowwho
Sebastopol140
8647%
thrashingcows
Calicoastin818
he’s breathtakingly stupid
SteveMND
Honestly, if he wasn't in the position of influence and power that he is, it'd be endlessly entertaining to just sit back and watch him go!
DrElihuWhipple
"If I just keep saying numbers, maybe they'll forget about the Epstein files..."
Hexrowe
He just keep saying random shit and none of it means anything.
madjo
Anything to distract from Epstein. here he's leaning into his image of being a bumbling fool.
Sebastopol140
Yeah but he's talking to imbeciles, not to us.
Ronelyn
Because there's never a consequence for him when he does. Why should he even waste effort on his lies if nobody's going to be mad at him?
Ionico
You heard it! We'll get paid 10,000 bucks to take 1000 dollar medicine from the pharmacy! Woooo! /S
thesameasyours
Reduce them by 69420%
DinosaursCameFromSpace
Elon, is that you?
PaperinoVB
Now go change your password.
whereismymind86
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJld2oyd2todzZjOGp2cDluaTA3dmtvYmFhbXc4ZDQ0Y2NrYTJxNXFhZSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/tnYri4n2Frnig/200w.mp4
GrumpyOldMan55
Epstein Epstein Epstein!!
isuckatprofiles
I mean, if trump could get the pharmacy to pay me for the drugs that I constantly fight my insurance for; then he's still a pedofile.
yourelivingalloverme
I sometimes suspect that when he’s spitting out stupid shit like this, it’s some sort of publicly televised code for a select few to decipher and act upon. Like possibly numbers to direct his billionaire friends to move money around in the markets. I don’t know. Why else would someone say such idiotic things?
whereismymind86
Nah, I think he’s just dumb as hell, being surrounded by yes men and sycophants for decades will do that
SteveMND
...because he's an idiot?
PaperinoVB
Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
yourelivingalloverme
It just seems especially strange to say such ridiculous numbers in such an odd sequence. It has to mean something else. Right? RIGHT? I can’t be the only one thinking this.
SteveMND
I know it's more comforting to think that one of the most powerful people on the planet ISN'T a toddler, and his imbecilic behavior is because he's orchestrating some convoluted scheme that maybe we then COULD perhaps get ahead of, but… no, he's just legitimately THAT stupid.
He's making examples up out of thin air to make him sound like he can do the impossible, but he doesn't understand math (and ESPECIALLY doesn't understand percentages), so he defaults to "larger numbers = better numbers."
spittleteets
Don't attribute malice that can be better explained by ignorance.
If, IF, *IF*...if it had some basis in reality the only possible scenario that makes sense is that he conflated percent reduction, with price (i.e.: Staffer tell him, "Biden reduced it 10 cents, we can reduce it $1.10, thats a 1000% decrease.).
SteveMND
Oh, that's definitely what he's doing; he's pulling random high numbers out of thin air to make him sound like only HE can do the impossible, but he's then using them all wrong because he doesn't understand even basic math.
spittleteets
Pretty much. Def saw a ppt or cheatsheet with graphs with blown up captions of percentages in bold red numbers.