It wouldn’t be a White House press conference without Donald Trump making an outlandish claim over his team’s achievements.This week, he claimed to have witnessed a drug bring a person back from the dead.The US President made the eyebrow-raising remark while speaking during a routine press event, where he appeared to be discussing the Right to Try Act.The law, which was passed during Trump’s first stint in office, allows some terminally ill patients to access experimental treatments that have not yet been fully approved.The idea is that people facing life-threatening illnesses may be able to try medicines still being tested when other treatment options have already been exhausted.Whilst an interesting concept to some, Trump appeared to take that idea a whole lot further, suggesting the US had access to a drug capable of helping people who were, in his words, already dead.

The President said, as shared in clips across social media — like one shared by journalist Aaron Rupar on X (formerly Twitter): “We’ve taken people that were dead. We had a person given the last rites — gone, the kids are crying and everything, and started them on this drug. And the person became better. It works.”Unsurprisingly, the comment has sparked quite a reaction. Many people are questioning exactly what Trump meant, as well as what drug he was referring to.The 79-year-old did not name the exact treatment during the remarks, nor did he offer clinical data, medical records, or further details to back up the extraordinary claim.In the footage, Trump appeared to be speaking broadly about experimental drugs and terminally ill patients, rather than announcing a specific new medicine.That has led some critics to suggest he may have been referring to a severely ill patient recovering after treatment, rather than somebody being legally or medically declared dead — even if it is enough to get people curious, whether that’s about said drug or Trump himself.