Lutnik Explains How Trump Cuts Drug Prices 600%

Friday, December 19, 2025

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has attempted to explain President Donald Trump's "mathematically impossible" claim that he is cutting drug prices by up to 600 percent ...

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 12:32 PM | 26 COMMENTS | permalink

FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times F: Not a 600% cut L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Dec 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM

Comments

Kudos! Professor Irwin Corey couldn't have said it better.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-19 06:14 AM

He said that the figures "depend on when you look at it."

If you look at it from inside the orange buffoons ass they go down 600%.

In reality the are up.

Demand to be shown which drugs went down 600%.

The maff ain't maffing.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-19 07:32 AM

Howie could've had a decent run as a three-card monte dealer.

"Heres a little game of hanky poo, two for me, one for you. Ten will get you twenty, twenty will get you forty, bet on red get paid on the head."

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-19 07:42 AM

...Are they this dumb?

#4 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-12-19 11:12 AM

Adding to the point, they definitely think we are.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-19 01:39 PM

It used to cost 600% more
Is not the same as
It now costs 600% less.

Is there any mention of which drugs this supposedly happened to?
Is it a thing Biden did?

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-19 01:42 PM

"It used to cost 600% more Is not the same as It now costs 600% less."

More frightening: His circle is either too dumb, or too afraid of Trump to correct him.

Neither options are good.

#7 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-19 01:45 PM

When you consider Howie Lutnik is what passes for a serious person in this administration, you realize just how ensh*ttified their entire operation has become.

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-19 01:51 PM

Trump is the WC Fields of presidents. His sycophants are dumber because of him.

#9 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-12-19 01:59 PM

So when are the checks to be distributed for the drug companies paying us to use their products?

#10 | Posted by BBQ at 2025-12-19 02:36 PM

Jesus wept.

#11 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-19 04:06 PM

The Trump regime got hold of Vernons calculator.

#12 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-12-19 04:40 PM

This is not the squirrel you're looking for.

#13 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-19 04:45 PM

At long last, Math Illiteracy has a representative in the White House!

That's some weapons grade DEI.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-19 05:15 PM

File this under stupid gaffes that no one really cares about but pretends like they do, just like all the gaffes that were made under W. Bush and Biden.

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-19 05:27 PM

It's not a gaffe, it's math illiteracy.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-19 05:29 PM

"Math illiteracy "

Most Americans don't care.

#17 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-19 05:46 PM

Billionaires are ------- imbeciles

#18 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-20 01:36 AM

#17

Says you Nazi bitch. Pretty sure you're just full of ----, like Pedo Donnie

#19 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-20 01:37 AM

#20 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-20 01:41 AM

Fine. Which drugs did he cut by 87%?

If he actually did that, then I will accept that he just misspoke.

But if he didn't do that either, it is just another sign of his dementia.

#21 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2025-12-20 08:18 AM

"But if he didn't do that either, it is just another sign of his dementia."

Are a doctor? It's funny how you guys who think you can diagnose Trump or Biden act like you are.

#22 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-20 11:31 AM

Are a doctor? It's funny how you guys who think you can diagnose Trump or Biden act like you are.

POSTED BY SENTINEL

It's ok to call Biden sleepy demented senile old man or whatever but don't you dare call our Dear Leader Trumpy old tired and stupid!

Even if he is.

Just salute smartly and admire how beautiful the Emperor's clothes are today!

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-20 11:40 AM

#22

It's funny how a drooling Nazi bitch like you thinks anyone cares what you say.

#24 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-20 11:56 AM

"Math illiteracy "
Most Americans don't care.

#17 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-19 05:46 PM | Reply | Flag:
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Billionaires are ------- imbeciles

We have always had "innumeracy." Say this three times in front of a mirror. There really are courses to help a jock graduate.

"Intro to...," "rocks for jocks," etc. Some, sadly, could be irredeemable. Fifty years ago, they got drafted to become a rifleman in Vietnam.

#25 | Posted by john47 at 2025-12-20 12:01 PM