Some more ‘nuggets of wisdom’, from the brain of our fearless leader….
To push his false claim that climate change is a “Chinese hoax,” Trump says that even if it were true, what would be the harm, as it would create more valuable land. “You’ll have more oceanfront property,” he said several times during his 2024 campaign.
His belief defies common sense. While rising sea levels may temporarily create more shoreline in localized areas with inland valleys, the total amount of oceanfront land decreases as water height increases.
In the first months upon retaking office, for instance, Trump repeatedly told audiences that the war in Ukraine was especially deadly because of the lack of hills.
“You know, the bullet ― very flat land, as I said, and the bullet goes, there’s no, there’s no hiding, and a bullet, the only thing going to stop the bullet is a human body,” he told the World Economic Forum on Jan. 23 via a video feed. Duh, have you heard of walls, or….gravity, you moron?
More recently, Trump has taken to claiming that he will reduce the price of prescription drugs by mathematically impossible amounts.
“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 1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500%,” he said at a July reception for Republican members of Congress.
For Trump’s claim to be correct, pharmacies would have to refund many times the value of a prescription each time they filled one. A medication costing $100, for instance, would have to be handed to the patient at no charge along with $1,400 in cash.
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