"What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring the drug down to $13 right? If you're looking at it from $13 it's down seven times Lutnick attempted to explain in a rambling response.It's 700 percent higher [than] before, it's down 700 percent now, right? So $13 would have to go up 700 percent to get back to the old one, Lutnick continued. So it all depends on when you look at it. You could say it's down 87 percent or you could say it would have to go up 700 percent to be the same one. So it just depends on what you look at it, he repeated."
"But basically what he's saying, and we all know what he's saying, is we are hammering the price of drugs down. Here with a rebuttal is veteran Broadway accountant Leo Bloom: Max, you can only sell 100 percent of anything. Jesus, these people. My friend Angela V. Shelton of the Detroit Sheltons said it best Friday morning: If they named Planet Earth after him, he'd whine about the moon. Oh, just shoot me now."
Howard Lutnick offered a confused explanation of percentage change, claiming a drug reduced from $100 to $13 was “down seven times” and “down 700 percent,” then saying it depends on the baseline. Commentators and satirists mocked the math and compared the rhetoric to Trump-branded ventures. A commentator quipped that you can only sell 100 percent of anything and ridiculed persistent complaints. CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss announced primetime town halls and debates under the banner Things That Matter, with participants including JD Vance, Wes Moore, and Sam Altman and topics like God, feminism, and the American Dream.
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