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Posted 23 January 2026 PM
Chest-thumping by Donald Trump over lowering US drug prices has turned ugly, with the French Presidency branding the US President's claims on how the deal was done as "fake news".
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Trump gave a blow-by-blow account of how he pressured French President Emmanuel Macron into hiking the price of an unspecified prescription drug that costs $130 in the US but $10 in Europe.

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