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Donald Trump promised drug costs would drop 1,000 percentthen claimed a $10 pill would become $20in a head-spinning arithmetic car crash.
In a Fox News hit that left viewers baffled, Trump said, Were gonna be reducing drug costs over the next year, year and a half
by a thousand percent, before adding, itll 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 $90meaning drugmakers would pay patients to take pillswhile 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, didnt 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!

Aristus
(70,910 posts)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)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)Poor Donnie has lifelong mental illness coupled with dementia.
We are just at the beginning of suffering through this Hell.
I hope whatever hes destined to die from, takes him soon.
tanyev
(47,821 posts)Any proof he ever spoke more realistically about percentages?
niyad
(127,375 posts)Captain Zero
(8,443 posts)His dick
And Stormy Daniels.

Norbert
(7,374 posts)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)To nick a quote, Donald Trump is a stupid person's image of what a smart person is like.