Strategy over Optics: Trump’s Most Favored Nation Status on Drug Prices by James Lyons-Weiler at Brownstone Institute On September 30, 2025, the image of Albert Bourla standing in the White House beside President Donald J. Trump stunned large segments of the public. The moment instantly became a lightning rod, drawing condemnation and confusion from those who remembered the unresolved—and in many cases, still unaccounted for—devastations of the Covid-19 response. My inbox, and those of ...