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.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    5·
    11 hours ago

    He was just quoted as making fun of the concept of the “corner store.” Apparently he grew up in NYC, and has never heard the term Corner Store. Out of touch much?

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      7·
      9 hours ago

      Could you imagine him in a bodega? He probably couldn’t fit through the aisles and wouldn’t know what any of the food is anyway.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        5·
        9 hours ago

        “Where’s the Diet Coke?”

        The clerk just waves in the general direction of the coolers without looking up from his phone.

        “HEY! There’s a fucking CAT back here!”