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Catherina Gioino

Trump and Mark Cuban end war of words to tag-team America's drug pricing crisis: ‘Democrats want cheaper medications, too’

Photo of Donald Trump (left) with Mark Cuban (Credit: Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)

It’s not the partnership anyone predicted. Mark Cuban, who spent 2024 campaigning for Kamala Harris, stood beside Donald Trump at the White House on Monday to announce a major expansion of TrumpRx. The site is adding more than 600 generic medications through Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs company, alongside Amazon Pharmacy and GoodRx.

The optics at Monday’s event were unmistakably awkward. This is a man Trump called “weak and pathetic,” a “loser,” and “a total non-athlete” on Truth Social during the 2024 campaign. That’s the same campaign in which Cuban stumped hard for Harris and told Vivek Ramaswamy that Trump was “unethical.”

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