Trump’s prescription drug math makes no sense. RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz have defended it anyway

President Donald Trump’s claims about prescription drug prices make no mathematical sense. But his team – including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week – keeps straining to defend them.

Since last year, Trump has asserted that he has cut or will cut prescription drug prices by numbers like “500%,” “600%,” “1,000%,” “1,400%” and “1,500%.” That is mathematically impossible, as CNN and others have repeatedly noted. A decline of 100% would mean drugs had become cost-free, so a decline of hundreds of percent or more would mean Americans would be getting paid substantial money to acquire their medications.