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The US President laid into the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for taking too long to approve new and revolutionary drugs for patients that have “got four weeks to live”. Speaking to a group of America's leading pharmaceutical executives, he said: “They come up with a new drug for a patient that is terminal and the FDA say we can’t approve the drug, we don’t know if the drug is going to work. “But the patient is going to die in four weeks and they say we don’t want to harm the patient, but the patient isn’t going to live for more than four weeks.”

He vowed to speed up the approval process so desperately ill Americans can get the treatment they urgently need. President Trump, 70, said: "So we're going to change a lot of the rules. "You're going to get your prices either approved, or not approved, but it's not going to take 15 years."

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The billionaire tycoon then appeared to be waging war on the nation's pharmaceutical companies as he lambasts them for the high prices of prescription drugs, vowing to lower the "astronomical prices". But in the same breath President Trump criticised foreign price controls for giving America a bad deal. The Republican said: "We're going to be ending global freeloading. Foreign price controls reduce the resources of American drug companies to finance drug and R& D innovation. "I think you people know very well, it's very unfair to this country.

The UK Protests Against President Trump Tue, February 21, 2017 President Trump signed an executive order banning immigration to the USA from seven 'muslim' countries. This led to protests across America and, now, the UK. Play slideshow Adam Gray SWNS.com 1 of 18 People gather at the Houses of Parliament in preparation for the Stop Trump protest. 20 February 2017.