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highplainsdem

(63,104 posts)
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:32 PM Oct 2025

Trump: "You never had anybody in here that knew what the hell they were doing." He promises 500% drug price reductions.

And no one around him explains to the idiot that there's no such thing as a 500% reduction.

Trump: "You never had anybody here that knew what the hell they were doing. I'll be honest with you. It makes me angry ... we're gonna get drug reductions of 500%."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-10-09T16:20:51.574Z
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Trump: "You never had anybody in here that knew what the hell they were doing." He promises 500% drug price reductions. (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2025 OP
Great! So you get a huge refund at the drugstore whenever you fill a prescription! Ocelot II Oct 2025 #1
Does nobody in the administration know any arithmetic? MineralMan Oct 2025 #2
UPenn should revoke Trump's degree VMA131Marine Oct 2025 #8
500% refund. CVS receipts will be a mile long. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #6
LOL. tanyev Oct 2025 #10
Memember Maga math.. every digit gets two or three zeroes added. ananda Oct 2025 #3
500% Right.... Chasstev365 Oct 2025 #4
Yep. That's the problem. Even when he says delusional things that questions Baitball Blogger Oct 2025 #5
TrumpRx Diraven Oct 2025 #7
This is one pathetic human being. OLDMDDEM Oct 2025 #9
And he's been saying stuff like that for a couple of months. Has anybody told him? Jim__ Oct 2025 #11

ananda

(35,514 posts)
3. Memember Maga math.. every digit gets two or three zeroes added.
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:41 PM
Oct 2025

I wouldn't even count on a 5% reduction with Trump
and his idiocrats.

Baitball Blogger

(52,719 posts)
5. Yep. That's the problem. Even when he says delusional things that questions
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:50 PM
Oct 2025

his mental faculties, no one is there to correct him.

Diraven

(1,951 posts)
7. TrumpRx
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:55 PM
Oct 2025

This is the plan. He's going to put 100% tariffs on all drugs unless they are purchased through his dumb new website.

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