The President of the United States on Saturday wrote on social media: “Because I have invoked FAVORED NATIONS STATUS FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DRUG PRICES ARE FALLING AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, 500%, 600%, 700%, and more.”
Trump also claimed that the purported drop in drug prices is “also the answer to much less expensive, and far better, HEALTHCARE!” and “a revolution in medicine, the biggest and most important ever, EVER.”
Many on X noted that Trump’s math “doesn’t add up” include StockTwits, “the world’s largest social media platform for traders and investors,” which replied to POTUS: “Math is hard $DJT.”
Math is hard $DJT pic.twitter.com/43uobfs232
— Stocktwits (@Stocktwits) November 29, 2025
[Note: $DJT is the stock symbol for Trump Media & Technology Group which operates the president’s Truth Social platform. The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that “Stocks and cryptocurrencies tied to the president and his family have tumbled amid a broader rout of riskier assets,” and shares of DJT have tumbled since Trump’s inauguration.]
When asked if the math in Trump’s Saturday post is correct, Elon Musk’s AI assistant, Grok replied: “You’re right, the math doesn’t add up. A price can’t decrease by more than 100% without going negative, which is impossible. Trump likely means prices are dropping to fractions of original costs (e.g., to 1/6th = 83% drop) via matching international rates. Actual reductions under the policy are estimated at 30-80% for some drugs, per sources like PBS and health experts.”
Grok added: “These figures likely exaggerate prior US-over-foreign price gaps,” and sourced the White House and CMS data.
X user @ThinkAppraiser who identifies as a real estate appraiser replied with sarcasm, “I liked this post 1200%.” And CPA Pete Bronson replied, “I don’t know what you’re talking about, I just went to buy a bottle of Tylenol and they paid me $70 to take it.”
Note: StockTwits co-founder and CEO Howard Lindzon was promoting the company’s new product CryptoTwits in May when he told Forbes, “I do not endorse crypto…But I believe that these products are coming whether we like them or not. So we better learn how to trade them.”
Lindzon added: “Everybody’s gone for the fast buck. Everybody can now be Goldman Sachs. And that’s not going to end. Nancy Pelosi is trading stocks (she has consistently denied this). Trump’s got a Trump coin. The nihilism, or the degeneracy, is coming straight from the White House. Platforms like us, and hopefully X, and Telegram, and other companies that we’ve inspired will put up more guard rails because the government’s not going to help us.”
Note: As seen below, Lindzon last week also commented on Trump’s reported frontrunner to become the next Fed Chair, White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett. Lindzon wrote: “I picked a bad year not to be a grifter …. Plunge ‘boot licking’ protection team secured.”
I picked a bad year not to be a grifter ….
Plunge ‘boot licking’ protection team secured https://t.co/hOZusInGoj
— Howard Lindzon (@howardlindzon) November 26, 2025