President Donald Trump uses a lot of inaccurate numbers. Sometimes, like on Thursday, he uses a bunch of them in rapid succession.

At a White House event at which he announced sharply reduced prices for some common fertility drugs through a new direct-to-consumer platform, Trump:

• Again falsely claimed he is cutting prescription drug prices by a mathematically impossible 200% to 800%
• Again falsely claimed he has secured “over $17 trillion” in investment in the US this year, nearly double the White House’s exaggerated “$8.8 trillion” figure
• Again falsely claimed he has ended “eight” wars; this figure counts two disputes that weren’t actually wars and one war that is still running
• Falsely claimed Democrats are trying during the government shutdown battle to give $1.5 trillion to undocumented immigrants, though that is not close to true
• Falsely claimed the prevalence of autism was just 1 in 20,000 just “20 years ago or so,” though the actual figure about 20 years ago was between 1 in 125 and 1 in 110

Here is a fact check.

Prescription drug prices

Trump claimed, as he has repeatedly this year, that he is cutting prescription drug prices by well over 100%. This time, he said, “Drug prices are coming down 400%, 200%, 600%, numbers that nobody’s ever seen before,” then added later, “Five hundred, 600, 800%, in some cases even more than that. It’s hard to believe.”

It’s hard to believe because those numbers are mathematically impossible, as CNN and others have...

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