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Walter Kirn

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The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

None of those people, but they're going to have to be very creative in finding a way to question it or oppose it. So I make a prediction. At first, they'll try to have their cake and eat it too. They'll applaud the sentiment, the goal, the idea in general, but they'll tell us the execution is terrible and is going to lead to disastrous consequences. for the very poorest among us.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

None of those people, but they're going to have to be very creative in finding a way to question it or oppose it. So I make a prediction. At first, they'll try to have their cake and eat it too. They'll applaud the sentiment, the goal, the idea in general, but they'll tell us the execution is terrible and is going to lead to disastrous consequences. for the very poorest among us.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

I mean, especially they'll set the damage in places you and I won't ever go, you know, East Africa and so on. And tell us over there, it's just... wreaking devastation. But the fact is that finally they're going to have to come down on one side or the other, especially the politicians. And they're going to come down on Farmer's side if that's who's supporting them.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

I mean, especially they'll set the damage in places you and I won't ever go, you know, East Africa and so on. And tell us over there, it's just... wreaking devastation. But the fact is that finally they're going to have to come down on one side or the other, especially the politicians. And they're going to come down on Farmer's side if that's who's supporting them.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

I mean, especially they'll set the damage in places you and I won't ever go, you know, East Africa and so on. And tell us over there, it's just... wreaking devastation. But the fact is that finally they're going to have to come down on one side or the other, especially the politicians. And they're going to come down on Farmer's side if that's who's supporting them.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

I mean, this is a kill shot against the rhetorical hypocrisy of Democrats and Republicans who always can be for something that will never happen. It's easy to be for lower drug prices when you happen to know from the meetings back at your office with the Merck president that it's never going to happen. Now it happened.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

I mean, this is a kill shot against the rhetorical hypocrisy of Democrats and Republicans who always can be for something that will never happen. It's easy to be for lower drug prices when you happen to know from the meetings back at your office with the Merck president that it's never going to happen. Now it happened.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

I mean, this is a kill shot against the rhetorical hypocrisy of Democrats and Republicans who always can be for something that will never happen. It's easy to be for lower drug prices when you happen to know from the meetings back at your office with the Merck president that it's never going to happen. Now it happened.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

We'd love to lower prices for Americans, but the Constitution won't allow us, so just shoot me. It's not going to work this time. This is a slightly different deal, too, Megan. This isn't exactly what he tried before. This has to do with... Other organizations that set drug prices, these intermediaries that raise the price. It's a little bit subtler and it's more gamed out than it was before.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

We'd love to lower prices for Americans, but the Constitution won't allow us, so just shoot me. It's not going to work this time. This is a slightly different deal, too, Megan. This isn't exactly what he tried before. This has to do with... Other organizations that set drug prices, these intermediaries that raise the price. It's a little bit subtler and it's more gamed out than it was before.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

We'd love to lower prices for Americans, but the Constitution won't allow us, so just shoot me. It's not going to work this time. This is a slightly different deal, too, Megan. This isn't exactly what he tried before. This has to do with... Other organizations that set drug prices, these intermediaries that raise the price. It's a little bit subtler and it's more gamed out than it was before.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Do they not yet know how Trump works? Have they not yet cracked his algorithm? Every week, every few days, in case we run out of outrages, Trump does something that I call throw the media a chew toy. This is a chew toy. It allows them to sit by the fire and bite, lick, slobber at some non-issue. which causes total distraction while he does something like end a war.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Do they not yet know how Trump works? Have they not yet cracked his algorithm? Every week, every few days, in case we run out of outrages, Trump does something that I call throw the media a chew toy. This is a chew toy. It allows them to sit by the fire and bite, lick, slobber at some non-issue. which causes total distraction while he does something like end a war.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Do they not yet know how Trump works? Have they not yet cracked his algorithm? Every week, every few days, in case we run out of outrages, Trump does something that I call throw the media a chew toy. This is a chew toy. It allows them to sit by the fire and bite, lick, slobber at some non-issue. which causes total distraction while he does something like end a war.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Now, we'll be talking about this Qatari plane all week, I can tell you. And by the end of the week, we'll find out that the Ukraine-Russia war ended or something while we were on our... You know, slobbering over our chew toy. But but, you know, so in a way, it doesn't matter the specifics because they're always outrageous to be a chew toy. It has to sort of be borderline bad taste.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Now, we'll be talking about this Qatari plane all week, I can tell you. And by the end of the week, we'll find out that the Ukraine-Russia war ended or something while we were on our... You know, slobbering over our chew toy. But but, you know, so in a way, it doesn't matter the specifics because they're always outrageous to be a chew toy. It has to sort of be borderline bad taste.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Now, we'll be talking about this Qatari plane all week, I can tell you. And by the end of the week, we'll find out that the Ukraine-Russia war ended or something while we were on our... You know, slobbering over our chew toy. But but, you know, so in a way, it doesn't matter the specifics because they're always outrageous to be a chew toy. It has to sort of be borderline bad taste.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

And is it legal and is it constitutional? And in some ways it has to be gauche, too, because it's Donald Trump. Right. I mean, the plane has to be over the top. People will be looking at, oh, my Lord, you know, solid gold toilet paper holders. Yeah. First of all, he's going to guarantee more attendance at his library if he gets that thing parked in back than any other president in history.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

And is it legal and is it constitutional? And in some ways it has to be gauche, too, because it's Donald Trump. Right. I mean, the plane has to be over the top. People will be looking at, oh, my Lord, you know, solid gold toilet paper holders. Yeah. First of all, he's going to guarantee more attendance at his library if he gets that thing parked in back than any other president in history.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

And is it legal and is it constitutional? And in some ways it has to be gauche, too, because it's Donald Trump. Right. I mean, the plane has to be over the top. People will be looking at, oh, my Lord, you know, solid gold toilet paper holders. Yeah. First of all, he's going to guarantee more attendance at his library if he gets that thing parked in back than any other president in history.