Trump, 79, Gets Math Wildly Wrong in Another Senior Moment [View all]
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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