Karoline Leavitt was mocked on Monday for what critics online have previously dubbed “MAGA Math.”
The White House press secretary fully embraced her boss’ habit of mathematically impossible bragging when she repeated President Donald Trump’s claim that his administration was forcing pharma companies to reduce drug prices by more than 100%.
Leavitt didn’t go quite as high as Trump’s past boasts of slashing prices by “1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%.”
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But she did insist they were going to be lowered by “200, 300, 100%.”
Once again, people reached for their calculators in a bid to make some kind of sense of what’s fast becoming a routine MAGA claim:
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