Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not concerned about rising U.S. gas prices driven by the widening Iran conflict, telling Reuters in an exclusive interview that the U.S. military operation was his priority.
“I don’t have any concern about it,” he said, when asked about the higher prices at the pump. “They’ll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit.”
The comments mark a shift in tone for the president, who touted a drop in gas prices in his State of the Union address last month and at a Texas rally focused on energy that took place just hours before the U.S. launched its air strikes on Saturday.
I should have taken pictures of the Turd’s yard signs from Fall 2024.
There were several different variations of the same theme: Trump [good thing], Kamala [opposite, bad thing].
One of them was: Trump low prices, Kamala high prices.
Republicans have lied the entire time Trump has been in office about how prices were suddenly much lower because eggs and eggs alone were cheaper, which had gotten super expensive for a time due to culling of the chickens to mitigate bird flu and something that the president doesn’t control. Disregarding that the overall grocery bill continued to climb largely due directly to the Trump administration policies.
Now it’s the same with gas. Shit got expensive under Biden, largely due to COVID related issues on a global scale. Prices came down and stabilized a bit, a trend which continued under Trump’s presidency. And then boom – start a war in the middle east. Now prices are up. But instead of blaming Trump, they’re pointing the finger at Biden. Because they lie. They don’t care about the reasons these things happen.