Step aside Euclid, Pythagoras, Fibonacci, Newton and Euler, because Donald Trump is here with a brand new version of mathematics! Yup, Trump seems destined to join the ranks of the all-time mathematic geniuses because, according to RFK Jr, he’s formulated an entirely “different way of calculating percentages”.
During yesterday’s Senate hearing, a perplexed Elizabeth Warren grilled RFK Jr about Trump’s grasp of numbers:
OMFG!
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 22, 2026
RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."
No, you imbecile. That’s a 98.33% drop. No math besides make-believe math makes it 600%. pic.twitter.com/5lmJ24WXur
“President Trump has a different way of calculating. If… there’s two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600% reduction.”
RFK Jr is right when he says there are two ways of calculating percentages, but the problem is that there’s a right way and a wrong way that doesn’t make any sense – and the wrong one is what the man in charge of one of the largest economies on Earth apparently uses.
This actually explains a lot
YES TRUMP HAS HIS OWN WAY TO CALCULATE PERCENTAGES. IT'S CALLED, "I FAILED 2ND GRADE." YOU CAN'T LOWER BY 600%. MAX IS 100%. I.E. TRUMP'S APPROVAL DROPPED BY 100%. 100% OF OUR WARS WERE STARTED BY TRUMP. TRUMP IS 100% IN THE EPSTEIN FILES. I 100%, AM NOT -GCN (C IS FOR CALCULUS.) https://t.co/fRWR5GsK9w
— Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) (@AwesomeNewsom) April 22, 2026
One of the refreshing things about math is that it’s concrete and cannot be argued with – there is no room for personal interpretation in hard figures and calculations. And yet, in a snapshot of just how dumb some MAGA can be, they’re attempting to argue that Trump’s math is correct and every other mathematician in the history of civilization is wrong:
I know the standard of English is a major problem in US education, but it seems that maths is also on the rocks!
— Peter (@pmosligo) April 23, 2026
If something increases from 10 to 600, it’s a 5,900% increase.
600-10=590 (amount of inc)
(590/10)*100 =5,900%
If something decreases from 600 to 300, it’s a 50%…
If you accept that Trump was taught math wrong (possibly as a joke) a lot of stuff begins to make sense. Huh, so that’s why the economy is cratering, why the tariffs did the opposite of what he said they would, and why his Big Beautiful Bill is actively killing off Americans.
Perhaps the best option right now is to revoke Trump’s high school diploma and make him repeat a few years until he learns how to do sums correctly. But given everything we now know about him, do we really want him hanging around with high schoolers? Probably not. Let’s just get him a private tutor until he’s on the same level as an average 13-year-old.
