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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social • 2 days ago

That is… not how anything works.

Reposted from Nahal Toosi

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grudgie.bsky.social•2 days ago

We really don’t talk enough about how stupid he is

jdobry5122.bsky.social•2 days ago

It seems almost impossible

misskayrenee.bsky.social•2 days ago

there’s been several articles over the years, but people only “read” tiktok now

nucable.bsky.social•1 day ago

OMG What??

pinkherring.bsky.social•2 days ago

No "thank you for your attention to this matter!"?

fungibev.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hahaha! That always cracks me up. He’s such an idiot.

wacamongus.bsky.social•2 days ago

When has this regime of clowns ever made anything work other than crime?

pjspassions.bsky.social•2 days ago

OMG!

naiaddesert33.bsky.social•2 days ago

Didn't believe Reagan's fairy tales 40-something years ago, & believe Dummkopf Donny's even less.

moniquemartin.bsky.social•2 days ago

But he said "whereby." That makes it all official 'n shi.

babsallday.bsky.social•2 days ago

one wonders why previous presidents didn't try This One Weird Trick

marketwolf.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump's approach to everything is to randomly try something that other people thought of a long time ago but rejected because it's a terrible idea.

pax-nw.bsky.social•2 days ago

Please, someone take this man's Sharpie away.

nbrockmann.bsky.social•2 days ago

Tell me more about these numbers that have never been thought of before 🧐

lioness-cal.bsky.social•2 days ago

Congress is failing

They should all be fired and not be paid if they’re not willing to actually do their job

elles-bells.bsky.social•1 day ago

A Most Favored Response

jasonlee.adichotomy.com•1 day ago

It is in Trumpainia. Rollback a Biden deal then rollback on your rollback and take credit for it. He has dementia and really thinks they rest of the world does too!

ruthz.bsky.social•2 days ago

The party of breaking things clearly has no interest in how anything works or how to make anything work.

adistantdream.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is there a reason we wouldn't expect this to happen if Trump were in fact somehow to end price discrimination with regards to pharmaceuticals?

galumbits.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because pharma has contracts with actual governments that set prices in other countries. They also have contracts with the hundreds of healthcare companies here in the US.

thisyank.bsky.social•2 days ago

I know this is never going to happen and wouldn't work anyway and yet- just like the movie tariffs - I am staring at the screen in the manner of a baffled Lab, trying to make it make some kind of sense.

spottedfawn.bsky.social•2 days ago

2 days after his inauguration he ended Biden's initiative to allow Medicaid/Medicare negotiate directly with drug companies. Be nice if the press which will give him the attention he wants for yet another meaningless EO would maybe mention that.

hekintx.bsky.social•2 days ago

he thinks EOs are laws because he is a dictator in his brain.

otbnmalta.bsky.social•2 days ago

davidsp72.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can’t wait for all of our esteemed media outlets pretend like this is a real thing.

3fecta.bsky.social•2 days ago

So big pharma is going to reduce their costs very soon and try to make it up by charging other countries more even though they have locked in contracts with their systems.

Yeah sure.

king-of-gelato.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you think that's something, wait until he unveils his new tax on all foreigners living abroad.

samonika.bsky.social•2 days ago

Communism

questauthority.bsky.social•2 days ago

What the shit?

eddytheaxe.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Numbers never even thought of before" he means cause he hasnt learned numbers yet.

politicsesq.bsky.social•2 days ago

My favorite part of this nonsense is his assertion that his executive order will cause pharma to magically raise their prices in other countries (which have price controls and contracts). None of this is real or sane. He’s bullshitting his cult.

atsnlg.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also, many of those countries and their citizens could not possibly afford those drugs at or near US prices.

decker2000.bsky.social•2 days ago

Absolutely. They all pay less for the same drugs we get screwed on.

bullit-n-i.bsky.social•2 days ago

BINGO!

A LIAR is going to LIE!

texasmassman.bsky.social•2 days ago

he's playing the normal game with the media. he makes some outrageous claim, MSM runs with it as fact, giving trump tons of positive free press coverage, they're not covering the fascism already happening, then in 2 weeks nothing happens he's already onto other MSM manipulation games.

pnw4me.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yup, free publicity

always4bangtan.bsky.social•1 day ago

And distraction.

gardener68.bsky.social•2 days ago

And they rejoice.

minervasowlbb5.bsky.social•2 days ago

Donald trump bringing a centrally planned economy yo the table is more communist than anything Kamala ever proposed.

upstander4good.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is psychotic behavior.

uckfayumptray.bsky.social•2 days ago

By royal decree?

themoxiemama.bsky.social•2 days ago

GOOD! Pharmaceuticals are disproportionately higher in the U.S. Let’s start with Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro, shall we?

Cash Price (USD)/Month:
U.S.: $1,000–$1,200
UK: $165–$210
India: $200
Australia: $185–$480

*Eli Lilly sued to have compounding pharmacies STOP compounding the active ingredient in U.S.

blueintheheartland.bsky.social•2 days ago

Biden had done actual work that took years to negotiate down prices and the idiot nullified that. This statement is just total word salad that means absolutely nothing!! He’s trying to rattle something shiny so people won’t talk about the $400 million dollar plane & not following the constitution.

themoxiemama.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/11/qatar-calls-jet-gift-trump-inaccurate-00341084

blueintheheartland.bsky.social•2 days ago

Even his grift is full of lies!! Omg. He’s just UGH!!

themoxiemama.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s all stages to create outrage on the left. It distracts from the real issues.

themoxiemama.bsky.social•2 days ago

Qatar said there is NO plane. He made it up just like he’s making this up. But I call his bluff because he should start with the astronomically high costs of pharmaceuticals here. How can the prices be cheaper in other countries for the same product? Corporate greed is the problem!

blueintheheartland.bsky.social•2 days ago

I am not saying prices aren’t too high. I am saying this “EO” is 200% worthless. It’s means less than nothing and is just his way of distracting. And I can’t find one single news source independent or msm that says the plane is a lie, do you have a link to that?

themoxiemama.bsky.social•2 days ago

I know that but that’s why it needs to be called out. He can say all that he wants but it’s not going to help anything here if he can’t fix the prices AT HOME. And he can’t because it’s not the cost of the raw product, it’s the greed of CEOs that are keeping the costs high.

amzongrl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Good? That he is going to sign a piece of paper that has no ability to do anything he is declaring it will do?

Seems suboptimal.

choozen79.bsky.social•1 day ago

Boy, the cult is pretty stupid if they believe this bullshit!

toddadam.bsky.social•2 days ago

rsphillips.bsky.social•2 days ago

These words in this order sense make none

rudell.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is he trying to nationalize Big Pharma? Dictate their domestic and overseas pricing? And he thinks it’ll work because he can cut the CEOs in on some TrumpCoin and cut their taxes?

tmoney2007.bsky.social•2 days ago

Get all the big law firms under heel and then there's no one for the big corporations to hire when he issues unconstitutional EOs...

It won't work but I'm happy to watch it play out.

extremelybitter.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sometimes I see shit like this and wonder what his answer would be to asking why he didn't do this in his first admin. Like, I know the answer is people told him no, but if he believes the President has a magical fix-drug-prices button... why is he only pushing it now?

keithbro.bsky.social•1 day ago

Translation: Premiums are going up.

Obvious.

schroedinger.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is he also going to order them, bigly, to not pass on his incoming pharmaceuticals tariffs?

rds773.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Lower your prices or I will increase tariffs on your products!”

rissejam.bsky.social•2 days ago

For anyone going on about how "stupid" he is, he knows exactly what he's doing. It's a sad version of virtue signaling. His base will eat it up. And when they're med prices don't change, it will obviously be someone else's fault [gov't conspiracy, Joe Biden, or the dems].

sweaters40.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don’t think anyone has to hold their breath!

kalenaaleka.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's creating a problem only to solve it and claim victory-- to use as a win in midterm campaigning for his candidates. I mean if we have midterms.

Same as now saying to tax the super-rich. He's trying to take away some of our ammunition.

It also reinforces the "everything is normal" claim.

catherinezoltan.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/catherinezoltan.bsky.social/post/3loyytxx4622c

bigtentsocialist.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wish this were true, but an EO is an instruction to executive branch employees. They can’t change market prices, and there are actual laws that dictate what the government pays for drugs. If his EO has any effect at all he will be immediately sued.

muffy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sweet, I will be sure to tell them this when I need to refill my migraine medications that go on prior authorization every 3 months. $5 now!

dreamchaser4ever.bsky.social•2 days ago

photodave219.fightins.online•2 days ago

So he’s just taking credit for something Biden did last year? OKAY THEN….

dangandblast.bsky.social•2 days ago

Something Biden did that Trump actively overturned, at that! https://www.ajmc.com/view/trump-reverses-some-biden-drug-pricing-initiatives-potentially-impacting-medicare-costs

majormilo.bsky.social•2 days ago

The only question that rattles around in Trump's head is: who can I blame? He will now spend the next 4 years blaming high drug prices on foreigners. The tariffs malarkey is just another grievance engine. That's all there is!

teethofwisdom.bsky.social•2 days ago

This man is essentially enacting the phlogiston theory of economics.

oopsallmuffintop.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ah yes, the longtime pillar of conservatism- the command economy

libbyspencer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Our so-called president is entirely delusional. Obviously riding on the high of being promised that fancy gold plated jet from Qatar.

anna0612.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wow , I truly pity those who believe this guy's rhetorical bullshit day after day.
He just cut millions and millions from Medicaid/Medicare which means no health insurance for millions and millions of people which means no matter the price it won't be something a large percentage of people

anna0612.bsky.social•1 day ago

Will be able to afford it !
Hey hey boo-boo smarter than the average 🐻!
Maga peeps are too smart for my ignorance level...geez 💯🇺🇸✌️🗽🫶💯🇺🇸✌️🗽🫶

eyeofthetiger24.bsky.social•2 days ago

Getting in front of fact we are about to go without our medication

backbay.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well hold on

If it does work great

But if it doesn't?

I mean Paw Paw can gaslight himself about many things but he knows what his prescriptions cost