President Donald Trump left viewers scratching their heads last week after making yet another sweeping promise that collapsed the moment he tried to explain it.

In a Fox News appearance, Trump’s grasp of basic economics and arithmetic was on display when he said, “We’re gonna be reducing drug costs over the next year, year and a half… by a 1,000%,” before attempting to explain with an example that only deepened the confusion.

“Because if you think of a $10 pill—it will be raised up from $10 to $20 because it’s the world versus us, the world is the bigger place.. so it will go from $10 to $20 … for them which is bearable. And it will go from $10 to $20 for us,” Trump said.

But for many online observers, the math wasn’t mathing and the translation was quite the opposite of what Trump inte

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