Dr. Mehmet Oz jumped in to defend President Donald Trump’s wild claim about slashing drug prices by more than a thousand percent — and instantly regretted it.

Pressed for a real explanation, he stumbled into a maze of bad math and stranger logic that even left the host shocked.

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 re

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