Ezra Klein

So Trump Rx are individual negotiations the Trump administration has been doing with drug manufacturers through tariff.

debates and negotiations.

So you can get cheaper Wegovy through TrumpRx because as part of the tariff negotiations, Trump was able to extract that.

It's not a crazy move, but it's not going to allow you to bring down prescription drug prices across the economy.

You'd actually need to pass legislation and have Medicare do across the board bargaining for that.

And the thing that's happening around the TrumpRx move is that he's extracting cheaper prices on individual drugs, and then those manufacturers are raising prices on the other drugs.

to make it up.

You don't think that will work.

No, I don't think anybody cares.

Most people aren't watching and most people don't care.

People understand why Democrats don't like Donald Trump.

They understand why Donald Trump doesn't like Democrats.

One of the things you always need to be doing in politics, particularly if you're unpopular, and the dynamics of social media have made this harder for both parties, is thinking about the person who doesn't like you but could like you.

Not the person who already likes you, not the person who already thinks you're doing a great job.

And the thing he's not doing right now is giving those people anything.

There's this deep way in which Donald Trump to me is the inverse of Joe Biden.

Joe Biden could not solve a single problem through communication and basically didn't try.

He didn't take credit for things.

He was not really that capable by the end of giving good speeches.

Trump is trying to solve all of his problems through communication, not through governing.