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Elizabeth Warren's Hilarious Response To Taxing Billionaires Is Going Viral
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Buzz Feed
11 minutes ago
- Buzz Feed
Trump's Drug Price Claims Spark Disbelief Online
Donald Trump's math on cutting drug prices didn't add up. Again. The president this weekend repeated his promise to get pharma companies to lower the cost of medications for Americans, who often have to pay much more for certain drugs than people abroad. But the actual amount of the 'tremendous drop' in cost that Trump boasted about had critics scratching their heads. 'You know, we've cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%,' Trump said. CNN 'I don't mean 50%. I mean 14, 1,500%,' he added. CNN But as many on social media pointed out, that would mean all drugs are free and people actually get paid to receive them. Trump: You know, we've cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1,500%. I don't mean 50%. I mean 1400, 1,500% — Acyn (@Acyn) August 4, 2025 @Acyn / CNN / Via Also, drug prices haven't actually come down, despite Trump's pressure on pharmaceutical companies. Trump appeared to acknowledge that when he later said, 'We'll be dropping drug prices ... by 1,200, 1,300 and even 1,400% and 500% but not just 50% or 25%, which normally would be a lot because the rest of the world pays much less for the identical drug.' CNN Reality is 'eroding before our eyes,' said one critic. Others agreed. Tomorrow, it'll be eleventy thousand percent, and the media will report it without question, and we'll all shake our heads and move along, and it'll be just another day of reality eroding before our eyes. — Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@JenniferEValent) August 4, 2025 @JenniferEValent / CNN / Via Time and again, he's shown himself to be utterly innumerate. — George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway3d) August 4, 2025 @gtconway3d / CNN / Via Same guy currently claiming he fired the job numbers expert over bad statistics. — J.J. Abbott (@jjabbott) August 4, 2025 @jjabbott / CNN / Via It's great that we have a numerically illiterate person unilaterally in charge of our tariff policy. — Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) August 4, 2025 @greggnunziata / CNN / Via Wharton (undergrad) called, and they would like their degree back. — Sedge Dienst🇺🇦 (@SedgeDienst) August 4, 2025 @SedgeDienst / CNN / Via 100% would mean all drugs are free. So this is @realDonaldTrump seriously claiming that drug companies are now paying US 14 times the price of our medications just to take them. Dumbest man on the fucking planet. — Andrew—#IAmTheResistance—Wortman (@AmoneyResists) August 4, 2025 @AmoneyResists / CNN / Via I think he MAY have failed first year stats. — Peter Baugh (@PWBaugh) August 4, 2025 @PWBaugh. CNN / Via Is it too much to ask for a president who knows how numbers work. — Michael Freeman (@michaelpfreeman) August 4, 2025 @michaelpfreeman / Via this was in the same discussion in which the president reiterated that he didn't trust the math of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics on the economy: — Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) August 4, 2025 @IsaacDovere / Via There's a real temptation here to make a joke, or to ask which drugs these are that pharma companies are now paying patients to take, because let's all get in on it! But honestly, all I can feel is sad that someone this stupid could be our president. Again. — Dr. Michelle Au (@AuforGA) August 4, 2025 @AuforGA / Via He lies as he breathes. — Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 4, 2025 @WajahatAli / Via
The Hill
11 minutes ago
- The Hill
Watch live: Trump signs executive order on Olympics 2028 task force
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday afternoon to establish a task force ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games. The games will be held in Los Angeles, the first Olympics to be hosted in the U.S. since the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Trump earlier this year signed another order to bar transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports, fulfilling one of his campaign promises. Those individuals will also face exclusion from the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. 'The President considers it a great honor to oversee this global sporting spectacle in his second term,' White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. 'Sports is one of President Trump's greatest passions, and his athletic expertise, combined with his unmatched hospitality experience will make these Olympic events the most exciting and memorable in history.' The event is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. EDT. Watch the live video above.
