Overview

• In a Fox News interview on Thursday, President Trump said U.S. drug costs would fall "by 1000 percent" within the next year to a year and a half.
• He offered a $10 pill example that rose to $20 "for them" and "for us," a description widely criticized as mathematically incoherent.
• The remarks fueled broad online mockery, with users calling the comments unintelligible and challenging what a "1000% reduction" could mean.
• The pledge follows July letters to 17 major drugmakers demanding U.S. prices match the lowest levels in other wealthy countries, with warnings of policy or trade measures, including tariffs.
• Health policy experts say the figures are impossible to translate into real pharmacy prices and note no systemwide price reductions have been documented.