President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
President Donald Trump uses a lot of inaccurate numbers. Sometimes, like on Thursday, he uses a bunch of them in rapid succession.
At a White House event at which he announced sharply reduced prices for some common fertility drugs through a new direct-to-consumer platform, Trump:
Again falsely claimed he is cutting prescription drug prices by a mathematically impossible 200% to 800%
Again falsely claimed he has secured “over $17 trillion” in investment in the US this year, nearly double the White House’s exaggerated “$8.8 trillion” figure
Again falsely claimed he has ended “eight” wars; this figure counts two disputes that weren’t actually wars and one war th