Donald Trump announced at his rambling one-hour press conference for an executive order to ban flag burning on Monday that he will be reducing drug prices in the U.S. by 1500%. The price of something mathematically cannot be reduced more than 100%, since that would bring the cost to zero.

"We have something coming up, favored nations," Trump said, "where I am going to be reducing drug prices by fourteen, fifteen hundred percent. Where a pill that sells in Germany for ten dollars cost one hundred and fifty dollars here."

As if to assure us that he wasn't just misspeaking, Trump repeated the claim again, stating, "we’re going to be doing numbers on the cost of drugs in this country. I'm not talking about a twenty percent decrease, I'm talking about a one thousand percent decrease."

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