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And people can get that today on Trump Rx.
They can go for the most popular medications and get the cheapest price in the world.
And not only that, but the pharmaceutical industry, because we gave them certainty and because President Trump forced the European countries to raise the price that their citizens pay for drugs, the companies actually did well.
They increased stock values by $1.3 trillion among them.
And they've all agreed to ensure their production.
So Lilly is building six plants here, new plants, including one of the biggest API facilities in the world.
The API are the...
The pharmaceutical ingredients that we ran out of during COVID, we need to be making them here because otherwise other countries can blackmail us.
Pfizer, Merck, they're all building big facilities here.
And drug production is now going to come to the United States.
We are going to be the center of the world in terms of drug production.
And those negotiations were very, very tough and they were extraordinarily complex negotiations.
We have a really good suite of talented individuals, high-caliber individuals who've left billion-dollar businesses.
One of them is a guy called Chris Klump who's immensely talented.
He walked away from a company that does data management for 85% of the hospitals in this country.
And he walked away from a billion-dollar company, divested, lost a lot of money to come just because he wants to improve things.
He ran the negotiations and the pharmaceutical companies fell in love with him because they realized they could trust him.
And we worked out this extraordinary agreement where now Americans have gone from paying the most in the world for drugs to the least in the developed world for drugs.
And that's going to change everybody's experience.
It's going to lower price for everybody.