2026.01.23
After people pointing out , no you can't actually discount anything more that 100%, Trump walked it back
"Under my most-favored nation policy for drug prices, the cost of prescription drugs is coming down by up to 90%, depending on the way you calculate. You could also say 5-, 6-, 7-, 800%. There are two ways of figuring that."
for better or worse that article tries to follow what he's probably thinking:
* He *knows* that price increases and decreases are opposites. Therefore, if a price jump from $10 to $100 is a 900% increase, then a price drop from $100 to $10 must be a 900% decrease. It's just logic.
* If you were selling him something and agreed to lower your price from $100 to $10, he would call it a 90% decrease, not a 900% decrease. If he were giving you the same discount (ha!), it would be a 900% decrease. The numbers he uses are whatever sound best to him at the time.
It's the same kind of depth of thought that makes him so follow shiny gold things...
I hate when my fellow Kirks turn out to be idiots
