Monday, December 22, 2025

It’s Not The Innumeracy

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.
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 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.
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3 comments:

  1. The Thought Criminal4:49 AM

    One of the interesting but lesser lessons of the Trump II disaster is how many of those who go to the Ivys are as ignorant as so many of them turn out to be. No one who got anything like a decent score on the math SAT could possibly be this stupid in regard to the kind of math they started teaching us in about fifth grade in my little rural grammar school. And Trump got an Ivy degree in economics. You'd think that they'd have at least taught them how to count money with some degree of coherent accuracy. But, clearly not.

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  2. jim, some guy in iowa5:19 AM

    I am convinced every academic promotion Trump ever received came about because a) the teachers wanted rid of him b) his father bought off the school or c) both.

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  3. Rmj4:43 PM

    I met some remarkably dim people in graduate school in Austin, and among the professors at UT. Which is "yes" to both comments.

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