"Well, the biggest thing is medicines. I mean, I brought it down. We have now, we went from the highest price in the entire world, we paid more than any other country, and now we're gonna pay the lowest price in the entire world. And that's never happened. We have medicine reduced by 70, 80, 90% percent."
"We have pills that would sell for $10 in London, selling for $135 in New York. I mean the whole thing was crazy. And we fixed the system, and we got it done. And people said it wasn't able to get it done in the past. I don't even think they tried. But we got done and we did a job like nobody else could have done."
President Trump has historically made false claims about prescription drug price reductions, citing impossible percentages as high as 1,500%. In a recent local news interview in Kentucky, Trump shifted to claiming 70-90% reductions, finally using percentages that do not exceed 100%. However, his claims remain problematic. He asserted that U.S. drug prices are now the lowest in the world, a claim contradicted by evidence showing pharmaceutical companies continue raising prices on hundreds of medications. While other administrations have made efforts to lower prescription drug costs, Trump's characterization of his administration's achievements as unprecedented and superior to past efforts lacks substantiation.
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