"This Is Legit One Of The Funniest Clips Of All Time": People Can't Believe How Trump Does Math

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Let's speech "MAGA math."

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In lawsuit you didn't know, Trump has been bragging astir lowering medicine cause prices by mathematically intolerable margins for a portion now.

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Remember this one? "Because I person invoked FAVORED NATIONS STATUS FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DRUG PRICES ARE FALLING AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, 500%, 600%, 700%, and more."

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There’s conscionable 1 occupation here: It's mathematically intolerable to person "savings" of 500% oregon more. The pharmaceutical companies would virtually beryllium paying you if that were the case.

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So RFK Jr. was questioned astatine a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, and we yet got immoderate penetration into however Trump’s mathematics works… oregon shall I accidental doesn't work.

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Here's what helium said astir those calculations:

"President Trump has a antithetic mode of calculating percentages. If you person a $600 cause and you trim it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

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"President Trump has a antithetic mode of calculating, there’s 2 ways of calculating percentages. If you person a $600 cause and you trim it to $10, that’s a 600% reduction."

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For those who don't know, that is NOT however percentages work. Reducing a terms from $600 to $10 is really a 98.33% decrease. To get a 600% reduction, the pharmacy would person to springiness you the cause for escaped and past manus you $3,000 successful cash.

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The antheral is reinventing math???

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Anyway, the net has a batch to accidental astir this one, mostly things similar THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS.

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Let's instrumentality a look astatine 15 standouts:

15. "MAGA mathematics doesn’t adhd up. What an idiot!"

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14. "I'm going to archer my accountant that I person a antithetic mode of calculating my taxes."

 "I'm going to archer  my accountant that I person  a antithetic  mode   of calculating my taxes."

13. "From alternate facts to alternate math."

A tweet mocks a politician's mathematics  mistake  astir  percent  reduction, highlighting it arsenic  an illustration  of spreading misinformation

12. "Fact check: determination are not 2 ways to cipher percent change."

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11. "'A antithetic mode of calculating percentages' Also known arsenic …. wrong."

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10. "They’re virtually reinventing mathematics for him. Unprecedented levels of emperor successful nary clothes."

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9. "Some nonrecreational advice: ne'er instrumentality a occupation wherever you’re required to accidental 'my brag has a antithetic mode of calculating percentages.'"

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8. "oh chill we’re astatine the 'sometimes 2 + 2 is 4, sometimes it’s 5' portion lol."

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7.

 Donald Trump tweets "OPEN THE SCHOOLS!!!" Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses cause   terms  simplification  successful  a hearing

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6. "There is nary mode to enactment for Trump and not person to humiliate yourself."

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5. "So… Trump mathematics is conscionable making numbers up. Got it."

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4. "This is similar saying shoplifting is simply a antithetic mode of buying clothes."

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3. "Something tells maine this mathematics lone gets utilized erstwhile it produces the desired result."

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2. "The worm evidently ate the astir important parts."

Senator speechmaking  papers; a tweet jokes astir  Trump's percent  calculation mistake   regarding medicine   outgo  reduction

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1. "Did I miss the exec bid that changed the basal rules of math?"

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