President Donald Trump uses a lot of inaccurate numbers. Sometimes, like on Thursday, he uses a bunch of them in rapid succession.
At a White House event at which he announced sharply reduced prices for some common fertility drugs through a new direct-to-consumer platform, Trump:
Again falsely claimed he is cutting prescription drug prices by a mathematically impossible 200% to 800%
Again falsely claimed he has secured “over $17 trillion” in investment in the US this year, nearly double the White House’s exaggerated “$8.8 trillion” figure
Again falsely claimed he has ended “eight” wars; this figure counts two disputes that weren’t actually wars and one war that is still running
Falsely claimed Democrats are trying during the government shutdown battle to give $1.5 trillion to undocumented immigrants, though that is not close to true
Falsely claimed the prevalence of autism was just 1 in 20,000 just “20 years ago or so,” though the actual figure about 20 years ago was between 1 in 125 and 1 in 110
Here is a fact check.
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