ROBERTS: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you to take their product. So it raises the question — how much of last night's speech was hyperbole?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 18, 2025
LUTNICK: No. What he's saying is if a drug was… pic.twitter.com/VrVXKlwG7T
ROBERTS: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you to take their product. So it raises the question — how much of last night’s speech was hyperbole?
LUTNICK: No. What he’s saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring the drug down to $13, if you’re looking at it from $13, it’s down 7 times
ROBERTS: It’s not a 600% cut
LUTNICK: But it’s 700% higher price before. It’s down 700% now. So $13 would have to go up 700% to get back to the old one. So it all depends on when you look at it.
Maybe the average Fox viewers will see that and say, “sure, that makes sense.” Others just think “oh that’s just Trump he’s exaggerating for effect.” But the rest of the world is alarmed that Trump quite obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Today he had the Pharma executives at the White House to lick his boots.
And he announces his new healthcare plan:
I’m sure that’s going to work. If the king proclaims that they must lower their costs so they will lower their costs. He’s just that powerful.
I wonder how many people in this country now see this un-American, monarchical behavior as normal? I have to assume that to anyone under the age of 25 and many under 30, this is politics as usual. And after a decade of this lunacy, it is. A president demanding to be worshiped like a god by everyone in his presence, blathering incoherently and routinely treating his constituents like dirt is all they’ve ever known. The collective memory of how presidents are supposed to behave in office — have always behaved until 2016 — is fading fast. It leaves the door open for all kinds of transgressive behavior from leaders going forward.
You think he wouldn’t?
Happy Hollandaise…