President Donald Trump has made a lot of broken promises during his time in office. He promised to lower prescription drug prices, get Mexico to pay for a border wall, and he even said a 10 percent tax cut for the middle class was on the way before the 2018 midterms. That tax cut never materialized, obviously. But the president’s latest promise might be the biggest lie of them all. Trump promised to cure cancer and eradicate AIDS if he’s re-elected in 2020.
“We will push onward with new medical frontiers. We will come up with the cures to many, many problems, to many, many diseases, including cancer and others and we’re getting closer all the time,” Trump shouted Tuesday night in Orlando, Florida while formally launching his re-election campaign.
“We will eradicate AIDS in America once and for all and we’re very close,” Trump continued. “We will lay the foundation for landing American astronauts on the surface of Mars.”
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Strangely, Trump wasn’t the first high-profile politician to promise a cancer cure recently. Joe Biden, one of the current frontrunners for the Democratic nomination for president, said just last week that if he’s elected we’ll find a cure for cancer.
“I’ve worked so hard in my career that, I promise you, if I’m elected president, you’re going to see the single most important thing that changes America: We’re going to cure cancer,” Biden said.
Both candidates are making ridiculous claims that they can’t back up, showing…