He had made the same false claim 12 days earlier at a reception for Republican members of Congress: "We're going to get the drug prices down — not 30 or 40%, which would be great, not 50 or 60. No, we're going to get them down 1000%, 600%, 500%, 1500%." The declaration, of course, is absurd on its face. A product becomes free if the sale price is lowered by 100%. To reduce the cost of a prescription drug beyond that implies that the customer would actually receive a rebate to take the medication off the pharmacy's hands. Trump's "1500%" claim would mean that a patient would receive a prescription that normally costs $100 for nothing, along with $1,400 in cash. Do you think President Trump understands how business and the economy actually work?