Biden wants to cure cancer. Now Trump does, too. But cancer, like health care, is complicated
Joe Biden has pledged to cure cancer — and now President Trump says he will, too. But experts caution: it's more complicated than that.
WASHINGTON — As a crowd of 20,000 looked on, laughing, Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday mocked his father’s emerging rival Joe Biden for the ambitious pledge he made recently to “cure cancer” if elected president.
“I’m going to cure cancer,” Trump Jr. said contemptuously, throwing his arms above his head. “Wow! Why the hell didn’t you do that over the last 50 years, Joe?”
Once President Trump took the stage at his campaign kickoff rally in Orlando, he made his own pledge: He, too, would cure cancer once and for all.
“We will come up with the cures to many, many problems,” he said. “Many, many diseases
