Trump Caves to Big Math — Uses Numerically Possible Percentages in Local Interview
Economy And Jobs,Facts And Fact Checking
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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