Trump Promises to Cut Prescription Drugs Cost by 1,500%

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Steve Benen: On prescription drug costs, Trump flunks arithmetic in embarrassing fashion

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Trump claims he is going to reduce drug prices by 1,000 percent

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Jul 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM

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The rhetoric was certainly embarrassing, but there's also a larger significance to this. For one thing, Trump appears to be so confident in his mathematical expertise that he's come up with international trade tariff rates based on formulas that only exist in his head. That's obviously unwise, but it appears worse in light of how unfamiliar he seems to be with how numbers work.

No need to ask how this mook went bankrupt big belly-up three times attempting to run a gambling den.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-24 05:15 AM | Reply

The very stable jenius has no idea how math works.

The math ain't mathing.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-07-24 08:00 AM | Reply

BTW if Taco is promising to cut prescription drug prices by 1500% that most certainly means he is not going to cut prescription drug prices at all.

One of his very first EO's was to a kill Biden initiative to lower prescription drug prices.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-07-24 08:03 AM | Reply

Is he senile or just really stupid? I can't believe his staff lets him out in public.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-24 08:54 AM | Reply

Trump Promises to Cut Prescription Drugs Cost by 1,500%

Americans being paid to use drugs? Intriguing!

Will this be like The Matrix where they dope us up to harvest our electricity?

I'm not saying no. I just want to hear the details.

#5 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-24 08:55 AM | Reply

He's a ------- demented lying pedo.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-24 10:52 AM | Reply

Wouldn't 100 percent be enough?

#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-07-24 02:48 PM | Reply

Didn't Trump float a 1500% tariff on prescription drugs the other day?

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-24 03:24 PM | Reply

Welcome to the Mad Hatter's tea party.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-24 03:32 PM | Reply

I mean, all he has to do is repeal all the increases the Republican led Congress has passed.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-24 03:35 PM | Reply

He probably thinks "percent" means fraction, like 60% is 1/60, and so on. Or at least he's pandering to people who think like that, while trying to troll his opponents into attacking people who aren't good at math. But they'd never fall for that, right?

#11 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-07-24 05:14 PM | Reply

America is so screwed. We elected this lying idiot. I mean: some of us elected this lying idiot.

#12 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-07-24 10:05 PM | Reply

The people who elected Trump are the ones who are screwed the most.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-24 10:06 PM | Reply

Well, if I were China, I would be preparing for war with Taiwan, while at the same time crossing Trump's palm with a lot of grift...there will probably never be a time when America is so undefended. Our Constitution mandates civilian control of our military, and that is quite reasonable, but in this time of Trump,
Hope I am wrong but the world hasn't been totally at war in a long time, and testosterone and all...with a clearly incompetent leader Trump and his acolyte Hegseth in charge of the defense department.

#14 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-07-25 07:59 AM | Reply

Yeahhhh.... put a bizznessman in charge of the country so they can run it like a bizznesssssss.

#15 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-07-25 08:20 AM | Reply

"Yeahhhh.... put a failed bizznessman in charge of the country so they can run it like a failing bizznesssssss."

FTFY!

#16 | Posted by danni at 2025-07-25 08:33 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm with CENSORED on this... I do like the idea of them paying me to use drugs... all sorts of possibilities contained therein...

if I get to choose the drugs...

#17 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-07-25 09:48 AM | Reply

He probably thinks ...

Maybe. But I have not seen any evidence of this yet.

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-25 09:57 AM | Reply

Trump Promises to Cut Prescription Drugs Cost by 1,500%
Americans being paid to use drugs? Intriguing!
Will this be like The Matrix where they dope us up to harvest our electricity?
I'm not saying no. I just want to hear the details.
#5 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-24 08:55 AM

Yeah, you're a real world Neo, piercing that veil. /s

A side note - you can only harvest from the living. Ask an Israeli.

#19 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-07-25 01:10 PM | Reply

Yeah, you're a real world Neo, piercing that veil. /s

End of the day, we're all worm food. Might as well enjoy what comes first.

A side note - you can only harvest from the living. Ask [the Jews]
#19 | Posted by redlightrobot

Drink!

#20 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-25 06:34 PM | Reply

... Trump flunks arithmetic in embarrassing fashion ...

Embarrassing?

It was not just embarrassing for Pres Trump.

It was an epic failure at basic grade school arithmetic on his part.

#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-25 06:41 PM | Reply