Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drew ridicule on social media Wednesday after defending what critics have previously mockingly dubbed the “MAGA math” of Donald Trump.
The president has repeatedly claimed in recent months that his administration has — or will — slash prescription drug prices by figures that are more than 100%, an assertion that’s mathematically impossible unless companies pay people to take their medications.
During a Senate hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) noted Trump’s claim that his TrumpRx website, which seeks to sell discounted prescription drugs directly to patients, has “cut prices by as much as 600%.”
Kennedy tried to explain Trump’s thinking:
“President Trump has a different way of calculating … there’s two ways of calculating percentage. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600% reduction.”
Warren didn’t have time to get into it with Kennedy.
But the explanation is incorrect, and critics were quick to point it out:
