After a billionaire friend complained to Trump about paying more for a weight-loss drug in the U.S. than in the UK, Trump issued an executive order claiming to lower prescription drug prices. But when you look closely, it’s more populist cosplay than meaningful reform.
Isn't Ozempic made in Denmark? Hint: stay away from Greenland..
More impressive is lower drug cost because people can’t afford them not because his rich buddy complained
You mean elon musk complained? He’s the fat friend trump was outing.
What about the old veteran who works at Walmart cleaning their bathrooms WITH an oxygen tank!!
MAGA just hopes that janitor dies faster and the 2 year old janitor that replaces them cleans up the body fast
Looks that way to me, too.
The UK also has national healthcare and drug prices are capped. But let’s not bother doing anything useful like that here!
A fat billionaire tells him drugs are expensive on Monday, and he has a miraculous solution on Tuesday. All intelligent people know that his grandiose promises are all theatrical bullshit that will amount to nothing. Careful analysis and planning are foreign to Don.
We know how this works www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0c6...
Trump's fat friend is imaginary... Fat Club.
And if you use Trump's own publicly stated standards, it's communist tyranny.
Love you George, but why does anyone write about Trump EO on Prescription drugs? If anyone actually believes he can sign a piece of paper and lower prescriptions costs, they are 4 years old or a moron.
He can write EO's all day long, they are not LAW, they are what he would like to happen. Only Congress can enact laws and then the president can sign those to start enforcing them. People think that because he signs an EO, it is the law of the land, it is NOT.
Funny on at least two levels. 1. Did the poor billionaire have tears in his eyes? 2. As if a billionaire gives a shit about drug prices. Oh, wait... 3. The completely believable idea that Trump hears the "poor me" cries from the rich...and feels the need to take action.🤪
I believe that story was made up by the Idiot in Chief. I believe he was talking about himself as the very good business man that was obese. Word on the street is that he was prescribed one of the weight loss injections along with a heavy regimen of statins to combat plaque and a high LDL.
He’s taking not one but 2 statins for his high LDL. Too bad those drugs work so well.
Yes, that’s why I referred to it as a regimen.
Exactly what I thought too! How funny that he always “has a friend” that he describes in so much detail (a typical liar move) but never names specifically. There IS NO friend! He made it up!
Yes and since he always speaks about himself in the 3rd person and how great he is, it’s a tell. Plus the unsophisticated way he talks calling the drug the fat shot. Since he apparently had the shot and lost 20 pounds it’s suspicious. Plus, I don’t believe he would’ve had such a conversation.🤦🏼♂️
Plus the neurotic statement fits him. I think he has inner shame that he had to get the treatment so he deals with it by shaming his imaginary friend.🤷🏼♂️
He is always projecting. Every accusation is a confession with him.
Of course, it is! That’s all he’s got.
Dumb trump blocked Bidens lowering drug prices and now he claim to lower drug prices, he wants to take the idea and credit. The brainless MAGAs will believe that lies for sure.
The billionaire “friend” is him!
Will people actually notice when drug prices don’t go down or will they be thanking him like they did for that wall he never built?
But of course it is. The man does nothing meaningful. Everything is a lie.
Donnie dump IS his own fat friend.
There is no way the president can just wave his hands and lower drug prices. Other countries pay less because they have a universal health care system that negotiates prices with the drug companies.
So, that's how it works. Wonder why no other president did that?
It's him... That billionaire friend is him, isn't it?
This order is a joke. It is completely beyond his authority and is unenforceable. Besides that it was never meant to actually do anything.
The devil has sold his soul to something even more sinister. The billionaires are in control here.
ATNA!
He can’t do shit with an “executive order”!!
All smoke and mirrors, that guy.
Is that the fat friend he was referring to? Pot. Kettle.
The 99% complain for decade, nothing. A billionaire complains and dude is all over it. So much for representing THE PEOPLE.
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Trump’s fat Friend…. Is him! Donald is the one taking the weight loss Drugs 😂🤣😂😉
His EO must have worked the way Big Pharma wanted: a prescription that I was getting for years for $.89, cost me $7.63 yesterday. (Same insurance) Nice job traitor!
And his Most favored nation pricing was blocked in National Destruction Attempt 1. But the courts don't matter, so it will totally work this time and that's a Worst Party guarantee
Its what Biden did that he canceled and now did so he can take credit for it
This is a lie. Trump doesn’t have any friends.
Why does a billionaire give a shit?
Hollow to the core -- just like 'rump himself.
The same people in his 'party' that are allergic to even the words 'universal health care' will never stomach this because they think it's socialism & socialism is only good if you are feeding the rich.
Biden already did it! But of course, Donnie Two-Dolls reversed it as soon as he could back in January.
He says he'll lower the price of a lot of things, but they go up instead, and as for us in the UK, well, we negotiate prices for medications, because there's more than just the US who makes what we need...
As long as something serves him personally, he’s in. If it helps everyone else in America or anywhere else, he doesn’t care at all. Most corrupt incompetent grifter ever.
Who hates America.
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Everything is a populist cosplay with them
What Trump are you the fat friend ?
We still have the original problem if the only fix applied is presidential intervention. What, you cannot rip off one set of victims, but ripping off others is still okay??
It's not the Prez, any Prez can tell Big Pharma how to conduct their business. The sentiment if this EO is fine, but yes, it's just cosplay.
surprise!
Was it Steven Cheung?
You just know there’s no friend. It’s just him and his fat shot. You don’t imagine he suddenly got will power, do you?
There is no billionaire friend. Total bullshit.
Isn't everything that the Felon does just showboating? If he manages to get one of his Eos out, chances are it will end up in court anyway. He's a waste of skin.
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I hope you are having a great day, George, and we appreciate you. Lee
He is complaining You know the old adage “Asking for a friend”
I was really hoping he was doing something decent.
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He has no plan. As always, he's just blowing hot air.
He fat shamed his friend.
It's ALL cosplay
Apart from the sheer lunacy of a tale of this sort from a President, the claimed cost of weight loss injections in the UK bears no relationship with reality.
www.packagingdigest.com/pharmaceutic...
He won't. He'll lower prices for his rich buddies and family members while prices remain high for everyone else.
Of course it is. He’s a liar.
Why did democrat Ro Khanna then try to codify that EO? Y'all are ridiculously lost in TDS, it's sad
What the hell is TDS?
Trump is taking credit for what Biden did. Trump canceled bidens so Trump could stamp his name on it.
Shocking.
It's all a game or reality show to him.
Has any President signed more "executive orders" than Trump? It seems that this is his ONLY method of governing!
He can’t force drug companies to change their prices by executive order. It’s just theatre.
Ironically he did it at the behest of someone who COULD afford the higher price. Too bad he couldn't concern himself with people splitting their prescriptions in half because they can't afford it when he reversed Biden's policy to investigate cost savings on inauguration day.
Almost all of his EOs are nonsense - but the rubes like the sparkle...
So essentially he feasting on the attention but delivering NOTHING. That describes Trump precisely!
I mean... I'll take it, if it gets the other side of the aisle to step up and work on legislation they've largely criticized from Dems in the past. I'm sure Bernie and Liz Warren have a few ideas they'd be willing to propose.
he knows damn well his lower-drug prices plan will not survive, it didn't survive when he presented it during his first term either. This is a nothing burger to pretend he sympathizes with consumers who buy meds.
Populist cosplay? Well paint me orange and colour me shocked
“Words, words, words.”
He asks the wealthy and demands from everyone else.
His solution is NOT to bring prices down, but to FORCE other intelligent countries to CHARGE MORE!
with all due respect, NOTHING this asshat does even approximates "meaningful reform" and it is ALL 100% (not "more") populist cosplay
When you look even closer, it's bullshit.