Drug that raises the dead? Here's the truth behind Donald Trump's statement

2026-05-15 17:25:05Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
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A statement by US President Donald Trump, in which he says with voice and image that a drug has been found that can bring the dead back to life, has spread rapidly online. “We’ve taken people who were dead,” Trump said. “We had a person who had had his last rites, he had passed away, the kids were crying and everything, and they started giving him this drug. And the person got better. It works,” Trump says from his desk in the Oval Office.

The statement was made last Monday, May 11, during a routine briefing with reporters at the White House.

During Trump's two terms in office, Americans have become accustomed to a steady stream of false statements and exaggerations, unusual even by the now-low standards of modern politics. The president's representatives often try to justify these statements in bizarre ways; perhaps "dead" didn't really mean "dead" but was simply Trump's figurative way of describing someone very ill. In the end, the multiple layers of inaccuracies create an impenetrable fog that causes information chaos.

Regarding this supposed miracle cure, if you watch the full video, it can be clearly understood that Trump's statement has been taken out of context.

The US president was talking about the "Right to Try Act", a law passed during his first administration that allows patients with incurable diseases to try experimental treatments that are usually considered too risky or completely untested.

But, as is often the case with Trump, the president seems to have gotten the idea of ??a very sick patient suddenly getting better, which is rare but does happen, and from the way he says "dead," it sounds like he's talking about the protagonist of a "zombie" movie.

It’s also worth noting that, like many of Trump’s political stories, the real balance of the Right to Try Act remains debatable. According to STAT reporting in 2024, patients already had the opportunity to try experimental treatments before the law was passed. However, the new law weakened their right to take legal action if they fell prey to fraudulent doctors at a particularly sensitive time in their lives.


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