Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, tried to explain and defend Trump’s wonky numbers, but spectacularly failed in a complete math meltdown.

In an interview with NBC “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on Wednesday, Oz tried to cover for his boss in Trump’s latest boasts about “slashing drug prices” by astronomical percentages, claims that have fluctuated between 1,200 and 1,500 percent, depending on the day and the audience.

“The president has talked about lowering drug prices, pharmaceutical prices, and he’s repeatedly claimed that he could cut those prices by more than 100%,” Welker said, before playing a series of clips of Trump bragging about reducing drug prices “by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500 percent.”

But Dr.

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