Do you understand that you can't reduce the price of something more than 100%?

[goaded]

"We've cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500%..." Donald J Trump. 3 Aug 2025

"In fourth and fifth grade, students will begin to learn about percentages themselves, first in relation to the fractions they’ve been learning up until this point..."

https://www.gigacalculator.com/articles/what-percentage-problems-to-know-at-each-grade-level/

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, given "The third-pound burger became widely known in the 1980s following a marketing campaign by A&W Restaurants in the United States. The campaign, ["Third is the Word,"] which sought to compete with McDonald's Quarter Pounder, was unsuccessful because consumers misunderstood fractions, making it a case study in consumer behavior and marketing communication."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-Pound_Burger

Yes, I do, a reduction in price of over 100% would mean the producer pays people to take the product

No, I don't, bigger numbers are always better

Please show me 100% of the results.

[Apostate_______]

Well he said he loves the poorly educated, just like himself, just like his followers. I mean they still think exporters are the ones paying tariffs. . ." We're bringing money in!". Nope, other fucking countries aren't paying extra for the privilege of selling to the United States. Who would fucking do that? No, your importers are paying extra to import what they buy from other countries, and they pass on that cost on down the line until it reaches the consumer. And Trump is pocketing the dough.

[Texaskid1]

Amazing , right?

This is why 4 out of every 3 Americans don't understand fractions.

[goaded]

Within a margin of error.

[ohsheeT]

He must have more toes a fingers then everyone else.

It's just goes to show you why he lost all his money more than once. And the reason why he had to hire his father right hand man back twice. To help him get his money back

Because he sure couldn't do it on his own
Thank God for George and Mr Trump's kids because his kids were able to learn from George.

[RandomGirl42]

Is this, like, a math question? Or maybe a trick question? Do I give it a 110% effort to answer? And what percentage of people even know how percentages even work? Is there any end to percentages or do they just go on endlessly across the universe? This is all so confusing. No, I don't understand at all.

[goaded]

It is tricky. Especially as you can increase prices thousands of percent, but not decrease them by the same amounts.

[888theGreat]

Yes you could , 100% off and money back, but I understand what you are saying. Trump said he reduced medicine by 1000% , yet it was $1300 to $250 which is really 80% . This why most people think he has Dementia or had strokes.

[OneViewpoint]

I think tRump has a bad case of stupid. I think he has been suffering from stupid since the day he was born.

[OneViewpoint]

It is so easy to lie to stupid ignorant people. It's why Republicans love the MAGA filth.

[goaded]

@OneViewpoint He's not smart enough to suffer from his stupidity. That requires self-awareness.

[Abbycado]

Yep, it isn’t hard for someone with 500% of a brain to figure out lmao XD

[goaded]

Fortunately, I have 10,000% of a brain!

[Abbycado]

Lmao XD

[CaptainObivous]

Technically you can, example, I have a car for sale that has to be gone soon as possible so I put it up for sale but no one buys it, so I pay a junk yard to take it, did I not just lower the price by 100%? That said, it's unlikely reducing the price more then 100% applies in this situation.

[Nikki1989]

Trump can't speak a coherent sentence, let alone understand basic math.

[OneViewpoint]

This is not true. An airline paid $6,000 me to fly coast to in first class. They have lowered my $1,000 coach fare 700%.

BMW paid me $500,000 to buy a car that was sticker priced at $75,000. That's a 767% discount.

[goaded]

Aw, damnit, I was wrong all along!

[AviatorTom]

That's not really true. Several years ago, banks in Europe dropped its loan rates below zero percent during some bad economic times. A bank was actually paying people to take out a loan, rather than the usual other way around.

[goaded]

Can you do it with physical products like, say, drugs?

Besides, "Negative interest rates occur when **central banks** charge commercial banks for holding excess cash reserves.

This means that instead of earning interest on their deposits, commercial banks are actually paying to keep their excess funds with the central bank. This unconventional monetary policy tool is used by central banks to stimulate economic growth and inflation in times of low interest rates and sluggish economies." www.economicstutorsonline.com/monetary-policy-case-studies-negative-interest-rates-in-europe
Interesting, though.

[katiesmuff]

If only they would bring that plan back again!

[jJanSmit]

That's not true. There's never been a negative rate on loans. That would actually be nice, but unthinkable. There was however a negative rate on savings. In stead of receiving money from the bank on savings, the bank asked money for it.

[MrChinaski]

Wholesale electricity prices are often enough negative in the middle of sunny days here. Lots of roof-top solar and coal-fired plants are expensive to ramp down.

So, yes, you can reduce prices by more than 100%.

[goaded]

Seriously, they pay you to use electricity? Wow.

[goaded]

It's still a bit different from physical products.

[OddBeMe]

I haven't got my check yet for my prescriptions.

[goaded]

Wouldn't that be nice!

[OddBeMe]

Thats what 1500% off would be. 1400% paying me for having my cvs scripts. Trumpcare, here we come!

[DryGermanGuy]

I bet that’s how he bankrupted his casino, by using advanced trumpemathics. 🤦‍♂️

[andreasderjuengere]

Mathematically it works - if you take these drugs before you begin calculation.

[exitseven]

I know, I pointed this out to President Trump and he was happy I corrected him

[goaded]

He then went on to make the same fifth grade maths mistakes. Seriously, he campaigned on bringing down prices, and he was obviously lying.

[kavakava]

Can you please tell Obama that there's not 57 states? And while you're at it, can you tell Joe Biden that billions of people didn't die from covid?

[exitseven]

@kavakava Yes and it is Corpsman and not Corpseman.

[kavakava]

True

[goaded]

@kavakava Anyone can misspeak once, it takes a certain kind of person to repeat nonsense claims over and over. Trump claims Republicans have reduced the price of drugs more than 100%. You can watch him in the video doing it dozens of times.

Do you understand that you can't reduce the price of something more than 100%?

[kavakava]

Trump got percentages wrong and Biden let terrorists into the country.
This is why your party is falling apart. Three or four left-wing loans are running the entire show. 🤣
Policy is gone and Chuck will be right behind her. And illegals will be given the right to vote in Federal elections.

[goaded]

@kavakava Trump didn't get "percentages wrong", he's lying. He knows his base either don't understand basic maths, or don't care as long as they think they're hurting groups of people they hate.

Biden did not let terrorists into the country, nobody is even talking about giving non-citizens the right to vote in federal elections, and Republicans won't even accept continuing the current popular ACA subsidies (75% of voters want them continued) for just one year, which is all they need to do to re-open the government. (It would cost less than half of the aid Trump has given to the Argentinian regime, by the way.)

[kavakava]

Joe Biden told us for 3 years that the border was completely secure. So don't tell me you care about presidents who lie.
You people with Trump derangement syndrome wouldn't look so bad if you could make sense out of things. If you hate presidents that lie you should hate all presidents that live, but you don't.

[goaded]

@kavakava No, he didn't. You're making that up, just like the rest.

[kavakava]

Bullshit! You guys must not get American television over there. By Nelson said he was a long haul trucker and an Air Force pilot.

[kavakava]

He also said...

[exitseven]

@kavakava his uncle was eaten by cannibals.

[goaded]

"there is no record of Biden claiming to be a pilot" news.meaww.com/trump-says-biden-used-to-claim-he-was-a-pilot-and-a-truck-driver-during-speech-to-troops-in-japan He NEVER said "the border was completely secure".

Trump regularly claims to have reduced the price of drugs hundreds of percent, and that's one of the least of his lies.

[exitseven]

Evreryone knows that Joe Biden went to the moon, He was sitting right next to John Glenn and Martin Luther King in the Enterprise.

[kavakava]

And he finished top of his law class.

[exitseven]

@kavakava He finished one up from the bottom of his class in Syracuse University Law.

[kavakava]

Oh. It sounded a lot different when Biden said it.

[Alex-Snow]

The ass in the White House can even do simple math. Kind of scary!

[AngryCarl2]

If Trump understood arithmetic he may have had fewer bankruptcies.

[noohair]

Five years ago gold was under $2000 per ounce. Today it is almost $4000 per ounce. The value of out money is cut in half. That is why no one can reduce prices.

[goaded]

Can you reduce prices 1500%?

[noohair]

That is a stupid question.

[goaded]

Nevertheless, it's the claim Trump is making. He claims Republicans have reduced the price of drugs 1500%.

[Gospeedracer]

Isn't It kind of like trying to sell a pile of dog shit for $20 then reducing the price by 200% would mean you are willing to pay someone $20 to get rid of it?

[captain_voidwalker]

And people wonder why we want to defend the department of education. All those billions and this is the result they produce, yep I want a refund.

[goaded]

Funny how they can pay ICE agents a fortune, but not teachers, isn't it?

[captain_voidwalker]

Nothing wrong with that ice is law enforcement and unlike teachers are getting results

[Sal_Monella]

Democrats should not pay attention in economics or civics classes. They were busy texting.

[goaded]

What?

[Spencer10]

I agree with this 300%!

[katiesmuff]

Enjoyed this read!

[goaded]

Thank you!

[douride2]

So they must be paying you big time then.