Trump’s Drug Price EO Is a Lie. He Doesn’t Want Lower Prices—He Wants a Scapegoat.

Yesterday, Donald Trump stepped up to the podium, wagged his finger in the air, and once again told the American people what they wanted to hear. “Lower drug prices,” he proclaimed, with all the conviction of a man who just discovered a new buzzword he could weaponize. And then he signed an executive order he knows full well will never hold up in court.

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Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening here: This is not about making insulin cheaper or helping grandma afford her heart meds. This is about Donald Trump manufacturing another fight with the judiciary so he can paint himself as a victim, and democracy as the villain.

If Trump actually wanted to lower drug prices, he had four years in his first term to do it. He had a Republican House and Senate in his pocket. He could have passed legislation with real teeth, codified into law. Instead? Nothing. The pharmaceutical lobby kept cashing in, and Americans kept paying more.

Now, with no realistic path through Congress, Trump is trying to convince voters that he’s some kind of populist crusader, by signing a legally shaky executive order that his own lawyers probably laughed at behind closed doors. And when the courts inevitably strike it down (as they’ve done with his past EO stunts), Trump will do exactly what he always does: cry foul, scream “deep state,” and tell his followers that democracy is broken.

This isn’t just political theater—it’s sabotage dressed up in populist cosplay.

Let’s look at the pattern. Every time Trump wants to distract from a failure; on tariffs, on immigration, on healthcare, he launches a new “fight” that he knows he’ll lose in the courts. Why? Because that loss fuels his narrative: that the system is rigged, the judges are corrupt, and only he can fix it. That’s not policy. That’s autocratic gaslighting.

And make no mistake: the consequences are real. Americans will not see lower drug prices from this. Pharma execs aren’t losing sleep. And patients? They’re still rationing insulin, skipping doses, and going into debt for medicine that costs a fraction as much in Canada or Europe.

What Trump signed yesterday wasn’t a solution. It was a setup. A setup for another round of attacks on judges, the Constitution, and any institution that checks his power.

Donald Trump doesn’t want lower drug prices. He wants a war with democracy. And this executive order? It’s just another grenade he’s tossing at the foundation of our republic—hoping the explosion helps him climb higher.

Don’t fall for it.