It’s Not The Innumeracy

Well, he certainly does HIS own math. https://t.co/aT4Icys4Yn

— Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@JenniferEValent) December 22, 2025

It’s that he believes it. He believes drug prices are coming down, because he made “deals.” The same “deals” he made with countries and corporations for the factories nobody’s building and the jobs that will never arrive.

Trump: "We're bringing down drug prices at a level that has never been thought of -- think of it, by 1,000% ... 1,400% in some cases" pic.twitter.com/zKesB5Sj6M

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 22, 2025

The innumeracy is a smokescreen. The truth is: he’s a demented idiot living in a self-generated fantasy bubble.

Trump: "With respect to the insurance companies, I want to meet. There's essentially 14 of them, 10 big. I want to meet with them and say, 'I want you to cut your rates. Way down. Way way down.' And maybe, if they do that, we'll be able to not cut them out. We'll be able to… pic.twitter.com/V3TMUFr2EM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 22, 2025

Trump: "With respect to the insurance companies, I want to meet. There's essentially 14 of them, 10 big. I want to meet with them and say, 'I want you to cut your rates. Way down. Way way down.' And maybe, if they do that, we'll be able to not cut them out. We'll be able to continue to deal with them."

Except for Medicare Advantage, I don’t know of any way in which the federal government “deals” with health insurance companies. What leverage does he imagine he has over companies that lobby Congress for what they want (and get it)?

That’s the problem; that he’s that ignorant, and that delusional.