Trump Earns Comically Brutal Community Note Over Price Claim

President Donald Trump earned a comically brutal “Community Note” on X/Twitter with a price claim that defied not just truth, but the realm of possibility as well.

Trump held two marathon press sessions on Monday — one for the signing of an executive order criminalizing flag-burning and another for a photo op with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.

The president took questions during both events, including from a reporter who asked about “priorities” for a potential second reconciliation bill. Trump’s response included, apparently, making drug companies pay people to take their products:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I will tell you that we are going to be doing numbers on the cost of drugs in this country, that it’s — I’m not talking about a 20 percent decrease, which would be good. I’m talking about 1,000 percent decrease. We’re talking about where a product would sell for $80 in Germany, and $1,300 here, and we’re not going to do that. We were subsidizing the entire world, and we’re not doing it anymore.

I informed the drug companies. I informed the world. And if the world wants to — if countries in the world don’t want to go along, then I’m going to put tariffs on those countries and I’ll make — we’ll make more money, but they have to go along with it.

So, this is moving along rapidly. Dr. Oz is in charge Bobby’s group, and they’re doing very well, and we’re getting great cooperation from the drug because the drug companies know it’s unfair. You know, for years that say, well, we had to do research, and we had to. I said, I don’t care. You had to do research for these other countries also. They are ready to go and I’m ready to go. And you know, if I pull that off, there’s no way a Republican will lose an election.

The moment went viral, and was quickly appended with a “Community Note” that ostentatiously made its point with a word problem:

Readers added context to this video
Misleading news If you reduce price by 100% price becomes zero
cuemath.com/commercial-mat…
Item: A book

Original Price: $10

Price Reduction: 100%

Calculation: $10 – (100% of $10) = $10 – $10 = $0.

Result: The price becomes $0 It cannot go lower than zero to represent a “more than 100%” reduction.

That note was upvoted and remained live for hours before it was modified to a simpler and less comical version, which now reads “It is mathematically impossible to reduce prices by more than 100%.”

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