The media is so broken that after Donald Trump said he’d cut drug prices 1,500%, they didn’t ask a follow-up.

Donald Trump, as the sitting U.S. President in 2025, publicly claimed he would cut drug prices by 1,500%, a figure that is mathematically impossible since price reductions cannot exceed 100%.

Multiple reputable sources, including AP News and Newsweek, have fact-checked this claim and concluded it is false or misleading because such a reduction cannot occur in reality.apnews.comapnews.comFACT FOCUS: Trump says he's cut drug prices by up to 1,500%. That's not possiblenewsweek.comnewsweek.comDonald Trump Doubles Down on Mathematically Impossible Drug Price Cuts

Media outlets have not ignored this claim; rather, they have actively questioned and analyzed it. For example, PBS NewsHour fact-checked the feasibility of Trump's claims about immediate drug price drops,pbs.orgpbs.orgFact-checking Trump's claim that prescription drug price drops could happen... and The Poke published critical commentary on the numerical impossibility of the claim.thepoke.comthepoke.comDonald Trump said he'd 'cut drug prices by 1,500%' and was brutally schooled...

Trump's administration has taken steps to encourage pharmaceutical companies to lower prices voluntarily, but no legal authority or mechanism has been clearly established to enforce such drastic cuts.nytimes.comnytimes.comTrump Demands That Drugmakers Lower Some of Their U.S. Prices by Septembercnbc.comcnbc.comTrump says he asked 17 drugmakers to take steps to cut U.S. prices within 60...

The claim that the media did not ask follow-up questions is inaccurate; media coverage includes detailed scrutiny and expert analysis challenging the validity of the 1,500% figure.