Trump doesn't really understand numbers.

[highplainsdem]

I’m beginning to think he doesn’t really understand numbers.

— David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T13:02:45.846Z

[marble falls]

1. As well as his claim about the number of drug overdoses last year ...

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/09/trump-again-overstates-number-of-drug-overdose-deaths-in-u-s/

Trump Again Overstates Number of Drug Overdose Deaths in U.S.

By Alan Jaffe

Posted on September 12, 2025

Reviving an unfounded claim he has made for several years, President Donald Trump on Sept. 5 overstated the number of Americans who died in 2024 of drug overdoses, saying that he believed 300,000 or “350,000 people died last year from drugs.” A spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told us the provisional number of drug overdose deaths in 2024 was 79,383, and an expert in addiction medicine told us Trump’s number was “a gross exaggeration.”

Trump made the overestimate at the White House while signing an executive order renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War. Asked by a reporter about the recent U.S. military buildup in the southern Caribbean Sea near Venezuela, Trump said those actions were in response to drug trafficking. Eight U.S. warships carrying attack aircraft, an attack submarine and Navy surveillance planes have been deployed to the southern Caribbean, the New York Times reported.

[highplainsdem]

2. And the percentage decreases he's promising in the cost of prescription drugs...

[marble falls]

6. And his height and weight, his grades in the various schools he attended, ........

[Wiz Imp]

8. A couple of days ago he said 300 million Americans died from drugs last year, not 300 thousand

See video in the linked article

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-says-most-americans-were-killed-by-drugs-in-bonkers-claim/

[marble falls]

9. I heard that on Rachel Madow Monday. Hell if I could find it on-line.

[tanyev]

3. He seems to have a young child's concept of large numbers.

[Swede]

4. Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on the map if you had the letter 'U' and the picture of an actual, physical crane

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/01/27/cnns_don_lemon_cracks_up_as_rick_wilson_wajahat_ali_trash_trump_supporters_as_ignorant_rubes.html#!

[Johonny]

5. Foreign leaders have learned lying to Trump works

Yeah, yeah we're investing 5 trillion over twenty years. And we are throwing in a jewel covered unicorn. Yes, with big tits.

[uponit7771]

7. A good portion of MAGA are innumerate

[Redleg]

10. Numbers? Who needs stinking numbers?

All we need are vibes, not actual numbers. If we rely on vibes and anecdotes we can make a case for anything.