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.
And the average Trump voter will just accept that happily.
They will think the extra price will be used for war
with stickers of Boden: “I did this”
I figured they like higher gas prices. They will buy a bigger vehicle to use even more.
The diesel bros are going to be so proud. Diesel jumped the most since last month up $0.50 as a national average and sits at $4.16/gal according to AAA.
“oh no, anyway” says man who’s country’s primary export is oil.
Now where’s the “I did that” stickers?
I already bought a pack of 100 months ago for this
And suddenly all the people who voted for Trump “for the economy” are suddenly fine with it.
Not really how this is going… People are pissed
Prove it!
From the outside the US appears fine with it
But not enough to do anything. At all.
Americans slept through the last 20 red lines. They’ll do nothing.
Pissed enough to do something, or just mad because gasoline is their lifeblood and it’s now expensive for american standards?
It’s like he thinks there is nothing he can say or do that will turn his lickspittles against him…oh, wait…
Gotta do what the mentally disturbed religious vision of the true leader tells him.
This is just more proof that he’s going to do something to prevent the 2026 midterms from happening.
He thinks having a war and civil unrest, in the U, Iranian counter attacks would be even better, will let him cancel elections
Reports are indicating this will last until at least Sept. so yeah. He’s gonna suspend voting.
If he does there better fucking be some pitchforks.
If it comes to that we’re going to need something stronger than a pitchfork.
So are you jack asses that voted for him satisfied with this lower cost of living yet?
They aren’t the only ones to blame. Its not enough just to vote kamala.
If you want your rights and your freedom, you need to fight for it. Thats the deal at this moment.
If you do nothing and let them take your freedom because they decided they’d fight to take it, then you are responsible.
Take your freedom back. It will cost you sacrifice. But it is better to sacrifice on your terms, for a chance at freedom. If you don’t, they will force you to sacrifice anyway, and all your rights and freedoms will be gone, forever, along with those of all future generations, and all citizens of all countries your government attacked with your tax money, and the might of powerful corporations like meta, and twitter, and google, and amazon, which you allowed to have power, because quitting them was too inconvenient for you, and you believed your actions alone are insignificant. They aren’t.
You are only failing because you have this weak mentality like you’re powerless. You aren’t.
Organize. Boycott. Protest.
Honestly, they would probably say that Trump has lowered gas prices lower than any other President ever has and call you a traitor for suggesting anything that challenges that.
They don’t read. They certainly don’t read forums on the internet. They CERTAINLY don’t read lemmy. I’ve seen only a couple here in the last few years and they seemed like fakes/trolls.
Conservative citizens in the US are largely barely literate and can just barely engage on the level of all-caps tweets and improperly used memes on facebook.
Eh, they absolutely read internet forums. But it’s more the likes of 4chan and twitter and absolutely not lemmy
I barely consider twitter and 4chan “forums” in the sense that nobody goes there to learn anything or read people’s perspectives, it’s mindless mental carbohydrates.
4chan has always had this absurd mixture of completely learning-disabled homeschool chuds grown up smashing their faces against their keyboard to spam racist memes and incoherent slur posts, and like 2% conspiracy-mavens who post essays that make Ted Kaczynski look like a beacon of rationality. Some of them learn to reign it in enough to actually control the conversation and those are the really dangerous people.
But largely, the average percentage of MAGA americans and the percentage of americans who fall under the “functionally literate” threshold form a circular venn-diagram and I wish that was hyperbole with all my heart.
Are you jackasses who DIDN’T vote for him ready to start breaking heads yet?
A business genius at work here
maybe he’ll reduce tariffs on cheap Chinese ecars :)
Those EVs are looking pretty promising now aren’t they?
When 40% of electricity is generated with natural gas, it doesn’t matter that much.
Guess what? I can change how the power is generated for an electric car. I can’t change a gas engine to not be a gas engine. I know, it’s crazy right. Also, this may sound unbelievable, but natural gas electricity is way cleaner per mile than gasoline. So an electric vehicle charged by natural gas is still significantly better than a gas engine.
Granted, all of that is terrible compared to public transit, but most American’s don’t have a choice to use public transit, significant infrastructure changes must be made first, and we are decades away from that at best. So for now, electric cars are the best option, while hopefully the politicians start working on the infrastructure problem.
Surely at least this way of generating power for EVs is more efficient than an engine that has to fit in a car?
inb4 WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED THIS WOULD HAPPEN?
but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit.”
Why is it more important?
More wealth extraction means more profits!
Also Israel. Don’t forget Israel.
