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Jilly_in_VA

(13,072 posts)
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:33 AM Friday

Trump, 79, Gets Math Wildly Wrong in Another Senior Moment

Donald Trump promised drug costs would drop “1,000 percent”—then claimed a $10 pill would become $20—in a head-spinning arithmetic car crash.

In a Fox News hit that left viewers baffled, Trump said, “We’re gonna be reducing drug costs over the next year, year and a half… by a thousand percent,” before adding, “it’ll go from $10 to $20 for us.”

The two ideas cannot both be true. A 1,000 percent “reduction” from $10 would take the price to negative $90—meaning drugmakers would pay patients to take pills—while doubling $10 to $20 is, well, a 100 percent increase.

Trump was skewered on X for his mad math. One person derided him as a “moron,” while another described him as “Donny Dementia.”

Yet, incredibly, The Story host Martha MacCallum, despite looking a little confused, didn’t push back on his bizarre claims.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-gets-drugs-math-wildly-wrong-in-yet-another-senior-moment/

I'm 82, math was my worst subject, but even I could do better!

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Aristus

(70,910 posts)
1. It wasn't a senior moment; it was a Trump moment.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:39 AM
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Don't blame his colossal idiocy on getting old. There are centenarians out there who are still as sharp as a tack.

Submariner

(13,131 posts)
2. He's been frying his brain cells snorting Adderall dust
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:45 AM
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for decades. Using Cankles math is how he ended up in multiple bankruptcies, which appears to be a warmup to bankrupt the nation.

Omnipresent

(7,213 posts)
3. Your not the product of growing up under Fred Trump.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:48 AM
Friday

Poor Donnie has lifelong mental illness coupled with dementia.
We are just at the beginning of suffering through this Hell.

I hope whatever he’s destined to die from, takes him soon.

tanyev

(47,821 posts)
4. Sounds like a small child's concept of large numbers where bigger is always better.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:57 AM
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Any proof he ever spoke more realistically about percentages?

Captain Zero

(8,443 posts)
8. The only things going down for Trump are
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:32 AM
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His golf scores (because he cheats)
His dick
And Stormy Daniels.



Norbert

(7,374 posts)
9. More of a, he doesn't know how percentages work.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:36 AM
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He has had problems with this before. For a guy who probably thinks he is a smarter mathematician than Archimedes, he is a real dumb shit.

Midnight Writer

(24,733 posts)
10. "Left viewers baffled"? Not on FOXNews. FOX viewers think this is genius.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 12:33 PM
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To nick a quote, Donald Trump is a stupid person's image of what a smart person is like.

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