**"History Buff Calls Trump’s Latest Move the ‘Medicare Part D of the 21st Century’ — Here’s Why the Comparison Is Going Viral"**

“History Buff Calls Trump’s Latest Move the ‘Medicare Part D of the 21st Century’ — Here’s Why the Comparison is Going Viral”

A self-proclaimed history buff has sparked a firestorm online by comparing Trump’s newly announced healthcare executive order — dubbed “trumprx” by supporters — to a little-known moment from the 1960s: Lyndon B. Johnson’s last-minute push to make generic drugs affordable under Medicare.

“Everyone’s looking at this like it’s brand new,” the historian posted on X, now with 2.3M views. “But this is actually the reverse of the 1967 ‘Drug Efficacy Amendment’ scandal, where a president strong-armed pharma, got sued, and lost the goodwill of rural voters for a generation. It’s the same economic fault line, just flipped sides.”

The post is gaining traction because it claims that Trump’s current move — slashing Red Tape for generic competitors — mirrors the exact moment President Nixon quietly deregulated the same market in 1971, while publicly pretending to fight “Big Pharma.” The historian argues both presidents were using price control theatre to distract from their own medicare payment cuts.

The punchline? “Last time this pattern played out,” the thread concludes, “it took 18 months for the stock market to crash. History doesn’t rhyme. It writes the same prescription and changes the doctor’s name.”

Conservatives are calling it “brilliant deconstruction.” Progressives accuse it of “historical false equivalence.” Either way — the tweet now has a pinned response: “This is going to age like milk… or gold.”