Trump touted the rising stock market as he brushed off concerns that Americans are laboring under higher gas prices as a result of the Iran war.

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Donald Trump said Thursday that gasoline prices are “not very high.”

A Quinnipiac University national poll of registered voters showed that 65% of U.S. voters blame Trump either “a lot” or “some” for the rise in gas prices seen since the beginning of the Iran war.

Trump said those prices are not as high as what was expected from the war, which he said was aimed at denying Iran the ability to produce a nuclear weapon.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    114·
    20 hours ago

    Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them. Fuel prices are actually crazy complicated and The President generally has very little control over them (unlike in this case).

    Honestly I prefer the fuel prices to be higher to persuade the population to make better choices. I understand some bear that pain more than others.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      The way I like to frame it is that no president has a “make gas cheap” button, but they all have a lot of “make gas expensive” buttons. Trump likes pressing those buttons because they aren’t labeled as such

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
      71·
      19 hours ago

      The older I get, the more I agree with Calvin’s dad. Adjusted for inflation, he wished gas was about $20 per gallon. Let’s fucking do it.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      94·
      18 hours ago

      Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them.

      In this case, the President ordering a needless war on Iran against all expert advice, and then vowing to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, not to mention all the USA’s attacks on other countries and moronic isolationist trade policies over the last year, makes it more the President’s fault than it usually would be.