The cost of a gallon of gas is now $3.91. Toward the end of Joe Biden’s presidency in December 2024, the average cost of a gallon of gasoline was $2.98. Gasoline prices have risen nearly a dollar a gallon since Donald Trump returned to the White House, but to hear Donald Trump tell it, rising prices are no problem.
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Trump said he didn’t want a ceasefire in the Iran war:
Well, look, we can dialogue, but we don’t. I don’t want to make a ceasefire. You know, you don’t have a ceasefire when you literally wipe out the other side.
They don’t have a navy or an air force. They don’t have equipment, they don’t have observers. They don’t have an anti-aircraft system. They have no radar and their leaders have all been killed at every level. Um, we’re not looking to do that.
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If anyone thought high gas prices might make Trump rethink his war and change course, think again.
Trump truly believes he is wiping out Iran, which is an interesting choice of words because this is the president who told the American people he had “wiped out” Iran’s nuclear program last year, which is the same nuclear program that his own administration said was weeks away from a nuclear weapon.
Donald Trump is not seeking to lower the price of gas for the American people.
In fact, the president acts as if rising gas prices are good news.