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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.

“I don’t mean 50%. I mean 14, 1,500%,” he added.

But as many on social media pointed out, that would mean all drugs are free and people actually get paid to receive them.

Moksha wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 07, 2025 12:28 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y50Lnx2dWm4

What Germans think about the US and their news has been non-stop.

The first Trump administration signed off on and released the Fourth US National Climate Assessment in 2018, although it attempted to bury the report’s news by releasing it on Black Friday. The current administration has deleted all previous reports from government websites, fired the scientists working on the next iteration of the report, and recently issued a separate report compiled by five researchers that questioned the severity of climate change.

Altering or revising previously published assessments would be a significant escalation in the administration’s attempts to wipe credible climate science off the record.

“That would be a very unusual approach, especially given the process that went into creating these,” said scientist Zeke Hausfather, the climate research lead at financial services company Stripe, who helped author the Fifth National Climate Assessment.

Wright played a large role in commissioning a new federal report that questioned the severity of climate change, authored by five researchers who are well-known climate contrarians. The report was issued last week, in conjunction with a proposed regulatory repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding,” a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety.

One of the key jobs of presidents is to face facts and make tough decisions based on them. But, since Donald Trump rejects any facts that run counter to the fake reality in which he lives, his decisions will invariably be tainted by madness.

While much of the attention following Donald Trump’s interview with CNBC on Tuesday focused on the insanely racist things he said about both Hispanic immigrants and African Americans, it is important to point out that it also showed that the president of the United States is nuts.

Granted, we have highlighted this before, but we believe it is a big deal and therefore worth mentioning all the time. In fact, since Trump says and does crazy things every single day, we are showing great restraint in only writing about his fraught mental state every couple of weeks or so.

But before we get to that, we don’t want to deprive you of the quote everybody is talking about… because Trump isn’t just insane, he is also a racist.

After a rambling and fact-challenged rant on immigration, in which the president falsely claimed that 11,888 murderers came into the country under his predecessor (we explained before how every part of this is wrong), the hosts of the show Squawk Box were hoping to get the president to say that his mass deportation program would treat vital workers, like those employed in the agricultural sector, differently.

Trump started off well enough by emphasizing that he wants to work with farmers and create a system in which undocumented migrants are sent to their home countries before returning to the US (if you watched the interview or read the transcript, then you’ll know he didn’t say this nearly as coherently, so we apologize for sanewashing his answer a bit).

Then things went off the rails.

“We can’t let our farmers not have anybody. You know, these are very these people, they’re you can’t replace them very easily,” Trump said of the mostly Hispanic immigrants toiling on the country’s farms to ensure that Americans have food on their tables. “You know, people that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They’re just not doing that work. And they’ve tried, we’ve tried. Everybody tried. They don’t do it.”

Obviously, “people that live in the inner city” is code for Black people. And Trump is right that it has been tried. That was called “slavery.”

However, what we really want to focus on is how detached from reality Trump is, and how bad that is for the country. On multiple occasions, he made up stuff and, when confronted with the truth, he shrugged it off and instead kept insisting that whatever lie he just told is right.

For example, Trump insisted that he enjoys the “best poll numbers I have ever had” and cited a figure of 71 percent. In reality, there isn’t a poll where he is within 20 points of that figure, and his polling average is at 43.8 percent right now.

When confronted with that information, the president said those were “fake polls.”

And that’s really the theme here. Anything he doesn’t like is “fake” or a “hoax.”

Speaking of elections, during the interview, he also tried to relitigate his 2020 loss to Biden and insisted that the people, who worked in his own Department of Justice, who found that his claims had no merit were wrong.

“Well, they were wrong, and [Trump’s attorney general] Bill Barr was wrong, and Bill Barr didn’t investigate, and he should have and why didn’t Bill Barr give the, why didn’t he give the Durham report?” the president rambled on. “Why didn’t he give that report, the stuff that’s in there, that’s all this stuff is coming out of it. Why didn’t he give it earlier? I mean, you know, why did it take so long to do it, and why didn’t he give it? Why didn’t they announce it earlier? Because it morphed, what happened is, it morphed into the Biden administration, and the Biden administration buried it so you know it’s too bad.”

The main takeaway from that word salad is that Trump thinks Barr should have released the Durham report, which was finished and published in 2023, ahead of the 2020 election.But Trump isn’t good with numbers, dates… or facts.

For example, the arithmetically challenged president has been saying that he wants to lower drug prices by more than 1,500 percent, which is a mathematical impossibility (unless he wants pharmacists to hand customers cash along with every drug they give away for free).

However, on Tuesday, Trump also said that he wants to slap tariffs of 250 percent on pharmaceuticals, which would obviously make them more expensive, not less.

And that brings us back to the premise of this piece. Trump is living in a fantasy world, and his inability to acknowledge reality is shaping US policy.

That’s a real problem, especially because it seems as though the president’s mental state is deteriorating rather rapidly.

Gunnar wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 08, 2025 2:53 am

Anyone who still thinks that Trump is sane, competent, truthful or good for this country just isn't paying attention to reality!

Some Schmo wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:55 am

Gunnar wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 08, 2025 2:53 am

Anyone who still thinks that Trump is sane, competent, truthful or good for this country just isn't paying attention to reality!

I love that his idiot base is suffering under Trump policy, whether they realize it or not. In some ways, it's even better they don't blame him. Stupidity deserves harsh consequences, and it doesn't damned matter if they know who's doing it to them, as long as they suffer like that lowlife dogs they are. If they don't blame him, it will last even longer, and good. A stupid dog is still loyal to their abusive master, even as he rubs their noses in they're[sic] own crap.

“F”, rightwing Americans are stupid. It's actually kind of funny if you can divorce yourself from the knock against humanity. American culture makes right wingers absolute morons, and they embrace it.

*shrug*

Gunnar wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 09, 2025 4:40 am

The problem is that they're not willing to admit that he is rubbing their noses in their own crap.