RFK Jr Suggests President Trump Uses “Alternative Math” That Calculates Percentages Differently

April 25, 2026 by Sophie Hearns

During a Senate hearing, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended President Trump‘s claim that his Trump RX prescription discount website had reduced d**g prices by as much as 600%, offering an unusual explanation for how that figure was reached.

The exchange was prompted by a senator who raised questions about the math behind the 600% figure. The senator pointed out that if a drug’s price is reduced by more than 100%, companies would effectively be paying consumers to take their products.

“600%, which I think means companies should be paying you to take their d**gs,” the senator said, before asking Kennedy directly about the cost of a specific treatment.

The d**g in question was Protonix, a heartburn medic ation. A 30-day supply of the brand-name version is listed on Trump RX for $200. The senator asked Kennedy whether he knew the cost of the identical generic version, pantoprazole, at Costco.

Kennedy did not answer the question directly. Instead, he offered a defense of the percentage calculation method.

“President Trump has a different way of calculating,” Kennedy said. “There are two ways of calculating percentage. If you have a $600 d**g and you reduce it to $10, that is a 600% reduction.”

The senator pressed Kennedy on whether he knew the price of the d**g at Costco. Kennedy said he did not.

The senator then provided the answer: pantoprazole costs $16 at Costco for a 30-day supply, compared to the $200 charged for Protonix on Trump RX.

Kennedy’s explanation of the percentage calculation drew attention because the standard mathematical method for calculating a percentage reduction would place a price drop from $600 to $10 at roughly 98%, not 600%. The figure of 600% appears to have been arrived at by calculating how many times smaller the new price is compared to the old price, rather than the conventional formula for percentage decrease.

The senator made clear that the comparison between Trump RX and existing discount options raised questions about the practical value of the program for Americans seeking affordable prescription medications. Trump RX pricing the same generic medication at $200 while Costco offers it for $16 put a direct figure to the concern.

Venture Capitalist Says America Is “Very Fortunate” To Have Trump Leading AI Race: No More “Doomer Neurosis” That Defined Biden Era

April 25, 2026

Venture capitalist David Sacks appeared on episode 270 of the All-In Podcast fresh from a meeting at the White House, where he offered an assessment of President Trump’s approach to artificial intelligence.

Sacks began by pushing back against media portrayals of Trump’s temperament. “When I read in the media, they’re always describing him in a certain way that, you know, he’s yelling at people or he’s moody or something like that,” he said, adding that “that’s never ever been my experience with him. He’s always pleasant to be with. He’s always genial.”

He then turned directly to AI policy, framing Trump’s leadership as advantageous during a pivotal technological shift. “I think on our issues of AI, I think we’re really lucky that he’s the president who’s in the White House when this AI revolution is happening,” he said.

When co-host Jason Calacanis asked what the AI landscape would look like under a Kamala Harris administration, Sacks offered a stark prediction. “We’d have no data centers and they’d be using AI to censor us and they’d be promoting DEI values through AI,” he said, before adding, “That was in the Biden executive order.”

Sacks drew a sharp contrast between Trump’s posture and that of his predecessor, portraying Trump as focused on national competitiveness rather than caution. “President Trump just wants the country to win and be successful and he doesn’t have these like doomer neurosis about it,” he said.

At the same time, he emphasized that this did not mean rejecting oversight entirely. “That’s not to say we don’t support any regulation at all,” he added, arguing that “we should have specific solutions for specific problems as opposed to being cowering in fear over this and just trying to halt all progress.”

He pointed to a specific policy idea as evidence of what he described as Trump’s foresight on infrastructure. “A really good example of that was his idea around data centers where he said over a year ago before data centers even became a hot political topic that we should let our AI companies stand up their own power generation behind the meter,” Sacks said, concluding that “that’s a much better approach than the Bernie Sanders approach of just shutting everything down.”

Sacks wrapped up his remarks on Trump and AI with a statement of confidence in the president’s engagement with the technology sector.

“I think we’re like very fortunate that he’s the president during this critical time and development of this technology,” he said. He continued, “And like I said he’s always been interested in it. He talks to a lot of business leaders.”

Reflecting on those interactions, Sacks added, “I’m always actually very impressed with what he already knows. He listens to like all the top guys in the industry and he synthesizes what he hears. I think he’s very good at that.”

On the topic of Anthropic’s relationship with the White House, Sacks described Trump’s view of the company as nuanced rather than adversarial.

“I thought what he said was very balanced and accurate,” he said. He elaborated, saying that Trump believed “that they were very smart guys. They do have a great product. I’ve certainly acknowledged that.” At the same time, Sacks noted that Trump also recognized ideological differences, explaining that “he also said that they were very left wing, but that was something we could work through.”

Sacks added that tensions had arisen over defense policy, saying Trump believed “they tried to tell the Pentagon what to do, which the Pentagon didn’t like.” Despite those disagreements, Sacks emphasized that Trump’s overarching priority was domestic success in the technology sector.

“But in any event, look, he wants American companies to be successful,” he said. He concluded with a personal observation about Trump’s preferences, stating, “And I think he genuinely really does like high IQ people. He says it all the time and people think he’s joking, but I actually think it’s like one of his core convictions. He just really likes smart people.”

Russell Brand Points To Attempts To Cancel Joe Rogan As Proof He’s Persecuted Despite Flawed Logic

April 25, 2026

Russell Brand used his appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored to argue at length that the assault charges he faces are connected to a campaign of establishment persecution against dissenting media figures.

The central comparison Brand drew was between his situation and that of Joe Rogan, Tommy Robinson, and Andrew Tate. When host Piers Morgan challenged the idea that Brand had been “singled out, targeted deliberately,” noting that “a lot of people think that’s honestly bulls**t,” Brand pushed back.

“I think that’s quite reductive if I may say the way that you’ve sort of framed it,” Brand said. He continued by expanding the scope of his argument, adding that “it is not just me. I mean the idea that there is not a set of powers that manipulate the public conversation in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s m*rder, the near annihilation which you obviously survived of Joe Rogan, the vilification of admittedly controversial figures like Tommy Robinson or Andrew Tate.”

The comparison, however, begins to fall apart on closer inspection. Rogan faced advertiser pressure and content disputes on Spotify related to his 2020 commentary. Robinson and Tate have faced separate legal proceedings.

None of those cases involved women making allegations of SA against the individuals in question. Brand offered no clear mechanism connecting those men’s situations to his own beyond a broad theory that media and establishment forces target inconvenient voices.

Morgan pressed further on the scale of Brand’s claimed influence. “I just don’t think that your influence in any of those debates would have warranted the establishment going we’ve got to silence Russell Brand,” he said.

That response exposed a central tension in Brand’s argument. To accept the persecution narrative, one must believe Brand was simultaneously influential enough to threaten the establishment and specific enough to warrant a targeted response involving multiple women coming forward with allegations.

Brand then reached for supporting evidence, citing the 77th Brigade, a British military unit that reportedly worked to “take down social media influencers” during the 2020 period. He also referenced organizations like Logically AI as having interacted with his content. These are real entities, but Brand established no connection between their operations and the women who made allegations against him.

At one point, Brand invoked a line from comedian George Carlin, quoting approvingly: “where interests converge, no conspiracy is necessary.”

Joe Rogan Accused Of Selling Out For Power In Blistering “Crashing Out” Takedown

April 24, 2026

On a recent episode of Crashing Out, co-hosts Philip DeFranco and Alex Pearlman delivered an unfiltered takedown of podcaster Joe Rogan following his appearance in the Oval Office alongside Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Mehmet Oz to discuss the president’s executive order fast-tracking FDA review of psychedelic d**gs.

Pearlman opened the segment by launching directly into a blistering critique of Rogan’s presence at the White House. “Joe Rogan’s a b**ch, alright. He’s b**ch-made. He’s always been a b**ch. He’s continuing to be a b**ch,” he said.

Mocking Rogan’s frequent claim of being politically independent, Pearlman added, “Oh, I’m politically homeless. You weren’t homeless in the f**king Oval Office hiding behind that f**king chair like a wee little man pretending that he’s there doing a good thing.”

DeFranco followed with a visual jab at Rogan’s appearance during the event, suggesting the staging itself made him look diminished. He joked that budget cuts had apparently eliminated apple crates from the Oval Office setup, meaning “Rogan looked like the little b**ch that he was,” he said.

He also criticized the group of figures Rogan appeared alongside, framing them as an unlikely coalition of controversial personalities. “You have the man with the brainworm, the TV doctor who sold miracle pills, and the podcaster who’s like, ‘The moon landing makes me a little suspicious,'” DeFranco said. “And then we’re just supposed to be like, ‘Everything they say is probably great.'”

Pearlman then turned to Rogan’s business relationships and political access, arguing that financial incentives had shaped his behavior. He claimed Rogan had “sold out to Spotify executives long enough so they could invest in drone warfare,” he said, before privately texting Trump about psychedelic d**g policy.

The criticism sharpened around what Pearlman saw as Rogan’s selective advocacy: choosing to speak up on certain issues while remaining silent on others.

“I find it interesting that Joe Rogan texted him about magic mushrooms, but he didn’t text him about ICE agents m*rdering people in the streets,” Pearlman said. “He didn’t text him about the tariffs. He didn’t text him about the Strait of Hormuz. He didn’t text about Iran. He didn’t text him about Gaza. He didn’t text him about all these other things that have happened for the last 18 months. But when he got to his little pet project, suddenly he can stand behind the f**king chair.”

Addressing Rogan’s comments about the historical criminalization of psychedelics, Pearlman argued that the framing echoed familiar political rhetoric. “Joe, you’re just using an older term for panickans and DEI,” he said. “And civil rights activists, we don’t talk about those, Joe. That’s woke.”

He continued by criticizing Rogan’s willingness to appear publicly alongside Trump despite past controversies surrounding the former president.

“Maybe you need to back up a little bit in your talking points as you stand behind the man who is, you know, occasionally describing himself as Jesus Christ and is best friends with Jeffrey Epstein, a thing you stopped caring about all of the sudden,” Pearlman said.

Pearlman closed the segment with a pointed summary of his view of Rogan’s motivations, arguing that the podcaster was consciously playing a role to maintain influence. “I can look at Joe Rogan and say, ‘F**k you,’ because I have empathy,” he said. “Because I can put myself in his shoes and go, you are pretending to be dumb. You’ve been pretending to be dumb.”

He concluded by describing Rogan, along with others in Trump’s orbit, as believing he could “wield power in the background and get his thing done without it ever hurting him,” ultimately characterizing Rogan as simply “very flexible” when it comes to “pushes from his audience and access to power.”

Ben McKenzie Warns Trump Backers: If You’re Investing for Profit, Remember He’s a Convicted Fraudster

April 24, 2026

Actor and crypto critic Ben McKenzie sat down with comedian and commentator Hasan Minhaj for a conversation about fraud in the cryptocurrency market. When the topic turned to Donald Trump, McKenzie did not hold back.

During the interview, the former The O.C. star explained how Trump’s relationship with cryptocurrency shifted dramatically over time.

“Trump as recently as 2019 called Bitcoin a scam,” McKenzie told Minhaj, before offering his own theory about the reversal. “My personal theory is that that’s because he was cutting in on his core business. You know, Trump is a real estate guy and there’s a lot of money laundering in real estate and I think he was kind of jealous that crypto, he wasn’t getting his cut,” he said.

McKenzie then described how that stance changed heading into the 2024 election cycle.

“And then in 2024 in the summer, he really embraced it fully,” he said. “There were rumors before, but he like spoke at the Bitcoin conference. He obviously doesn’t know anything about it, but he knows he can figure out a way to make money off of this.”

When Minhaj asked how Trump and his family were profiting from cryptocurrency, McKenzie walked through what he described as the mechanics behind their ventures.

“There’s the meme coins that he did and Melania did,” he said. “Those are, think of those as Ponzi schemes effectively. You’re going to try to release the coin, you own 99% of it or some huge percentage of it. If people put money into it, then the price goes up and at a certain point you just sell all of it and take whatever money you can get.”

McKenzie also pointed to what he described as a larger and more troubling arrangement involving a stable coin company.

“If the president of the United States, the most powerful person in the world, is selling people on this product and they’re buying it, why are they buying it?” he said. “Well, one reason they’re buying it is for access.”

He elaborated further, describing a dinner Trump allegedly held for top investors in his coin at one of his country clubs. “He’s literally pay to play, paying for access to the most powerful man in the world,” he said.

McKenzie also connected the stable coin to a $500 million investment from Abu Dhabi, noting what he believed the investors received in return.

“They got AI chips. They got Nvidia chips through this circuitous deal with Trump and his family. And they got a pardon for the guy from Binance,” he said, referring to Changpeng Zhao. Zhao had pleaded guilty to money laundering and served four months in prison before receiving a pardon. “That’s corruption. That’s a cri me. Should be a cri me,” McKenzie added.

McKenzie then delivered his most direct warning to anyone considering putting money into Trump-backed cryptocurrency projects.

“If you’re putting money into something that Trump is backing because you think you’re going to make money out of it, just know that he’s a convicted fraudster,” he said. “He’s been convicted of 34 counts, 34 felonies in the state of New York by a jury. So just bear that in mind.”

Andrew Callaghan: CNN Ended Press Tour After I Criticized CNN’s Partisan Fear-mongering On Live Television

April 24, 2026

On a recent episode of Channel 5, host Andrew Callaghan revealed that he broke a nondisclosure agreement to describe how CNN abruptly ended his press tour after a tense on-air exchange with anchor Don Lemon.

Callaghan had been scheduled to appear on CNN to promote an HBO documentary examining media echo chambers and the dynamics of the 24-hour news cycle. However, he said the experience took an unexpected turn before he even stepped into the studio, beginning with a mandatory media training session that left him uneasy.

“They had to give me this weird media training session, and it was like these 16 people I had never met before,” Callaghan said. “More people on a Zoom call than I thought you could ever even have. I had to get Zoom premium. All these people in suits going through point for point being like, you need to tell, if they ask you about Trump say this, if they ask you about revolution say this, if they ask you about your background say this. Don’t reveal that you’re arrested for graffiti.”

He acknowledged that speaking publicly about the experience could violate his agreement with the network, but made it clear he intended to proceed anyway. “I signed an NDA, but I’m going to break it anyway,” he said.

According to Callaghan, the situation escalated once the interview began. Rather than discussing the documentary, Lemon immediately shifted the conversation toward Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and the events surrounding January 6.

“I get on and he goes, ‘What can you tell us about the mental state of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in the leadup to January 6th?'” Callaghan recalled. He explained that he had previously embedded himself with the group as part of his reporting, and that disclosing sensitive information carried personal risks. “I had embedded myself in this men’s group, the Proud Boys, for a long time, and I still had those active relationships. Revealing any information could put my life in danger. I just wasn’t ready for it.”

Instead of answering the question directly, Callaghan said he pushed back on air and redirected the conversation toward the themes of his film.

“I clapped back super hard and I was like, ‘Actually Don, the film is about how the mainstream media, including CNN, uses the cable news system to push partisan divisions that have led to events like January 6th by essentially pitting working-class Americans against each other and pushing culture war over class war issues,'” he said. “And he was like, ‘What the h*ll?’ They cut the segment short. It was never aired.”

The fallout continued backstage, where Callaghan said a representative from production company A24 reacted with alarm after the segment ended abruptly. “She was like, ‘Time Warner C-suite is furious,'” he said.

Callaghan explained that he had not realized at the time that HBO and CNN shared the same corporate parent company, a detail that transformed the confrontation into what executives viewed as an internal dispute.

“They looked at it as like an in-house beef,” he said. “And I was like, ‘No, no, no. I was just projecting my opinion.’ And they were like, ‘Don’t you remember the media training? You weren’t supposed to do that.’ She was panicked. They canceled my press tour right then and there.”

He added that his final scheduled media appearance, an interview with NPR, also turned confrontational and was ultimately never broadcast. “How do you think the Sandy Hook families would feel about you fraternizing with Alex Jones, one of the most despicable people on the face of the planet?” the interviewer asked, according to Callaghan.

Reflecting on the experience, Callaghan closed with a critique of how major media institutions operate and coordinate narratives.

“I always wondered, all of these organizations that are technically disconnected, like NPR isn’t necessarily connected directly to Time Warner C-suite, but they seem to have some sort of high-up corporate meeting where they decide who is going to be made to be a hero and who’s going to be made to be a villain, who’s going to be amplified, who’s going to be stamped down,” he said. “And they have preferential treatment for those who really walk the line and don’t rock the boat.”

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