On Thursday, President Donald Trump complained about standing too long during a press briefing with Health Secretary RFK Jr.
“Yesterday I did this and I stood for about an hour and a half as people spoke. I said ‘This time I am sitting right there’ and I’m going to watch you. I stood for an hour and a half like this and I said ‘You gotta be kidding me.’ Here we go. It was one after another and it was wonderful listening to them, but I said ‘If I have to do this every day,’ Bobby should I stand or should I sit,” Trump said.
RFK Jr. laughed and tapped the president’s leather chair, telling him to sit down. The interaction was light.
Trump: Yesterday I did this and I stood for about an hour and a half as people spoke. And I said, this time I’m sitting right there. And I’m gonna watch you. I stood for an hour and a half like this. I said, you got to be kidding. If I have to do this every day, Bobby, should I… pic.twitter.com/Zg3QUdf4cT
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The briefing was mostly about a deal with fertility drug maker EMD Serono. Trump said the company would make IVF drugs cheaper and more available to families.
“EMD Serono will list their fertility drugs online at TrumpRX.gov at significantly low prices,” Trump said. He also said the FDA would speed up approval of another IVF drug called Pergoveris, which is already sold in Europe.
Trump said all fertility drugs made and sold in the U.S. would now have “most favored nation prices.” He said that if the drugs are made in the U.S., there will be no tariffs. “We started the process in the last administration, and then we had a little thing called COVID that came up,” he added.
IVF, or in vitro fertilization, is an expensive procedure. A single round can cost up to $25,000. The fertility drugs alone can add thousands more. Trump promised prices would drop sharply.
“Numbers that nobody has ever seen before. 400 percent, 200 percent, 600 percent,” he said. “Other countries are agreeing to it, and if they don’t, we put tariffs on them.”
The deal is meant to make IVF more affordable for families. Trump said that a big part of the cost comes from the high price of the drugs.
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