Trump Caves to Big Math — Uses Numerically Possible Percentages in Local Interview
Economy And Jobs,Facts And Fact Checking
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After claiming the impossible dozens of times over the past few years, President Donald Trump used appropriate expressions of percentage price reductions in a local news interview.
Trump has spent years claiming he will or has cut the cost of prescription drugs by many hundreds of percent — as high as 1,500 percent. He continued to make the claims despite fact-check after fact-check pointing out that this is not how percentages work.
On Wednesday, Trump gave a speech in Ohio and a rally in Kentucky, with a local news interview in between. WKRC's Tyler Madden asked Trump to preview his message to the Kentucky crowd.
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