Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise'
1d 2h ago by lemmy.world/u/MicroWave in politics from www.reuters.com
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.
Now where's the "I did that" stickers?
I already bought a pack of 100 months ago for this
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
That shit was last week
Between that and calling the war an "operation," it's obvious Reuters is sanewashing Trump.
Right? He was so proud of his (clearly fabricated) low gas prices.
I mean you can't expect the leader of the formerly most respected country in the world to keep his promises for more than an entire week, now, can you?
And the average Trump voter will just accept that happily.
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.
They will think the extra price will be used for war
with stickers of Boden: "I did 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
Pissed enough to do something, or just mad because gasoline is their lifeblood and it's now expensive for american standards?
Prove it!
From the outside the US appears fine with it
100%
They are still too comfortable to lift a finger.
But not enough to do anything. At all.
Americans slept through the last 20 red lines. They’ll do nothing.
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.
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.
It’s metaphorical.
But pitchforks are good and sticky so could be interesting.
So he's declared that he doesn't give a fuck what consequences this war has for the American people. He doesn't care if Americans die. Remind me why he hasn't been charged with treason
The only reason trump doesnt care about what happens to you, is because he believes you won't do anything about it.
So far, he's right.
I am doing something: I'm avoiding buying American products. While it is true that Trump doesn't care about me, that's irrelevant to the statement that he doesn't care about Americans
This is correct. Americans don’t give a shit as long as giving a shit requires them to risk their comfort.
Because the people with all the guns will endlessly harass anyone who opposes him in any way
So are you jack asses that voted for him satisfied with this lower cost of living yet?
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.
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 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.
Are you jackasses who DIDN’T vote for him ready to start breaking heads yet?
inb4 WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED THIS WOULD HAPPEN?
It is a curious thing to see how much punishment and humiliation Americans will take from this asshole. The third Reich really is an apt comparison.
I mean I'm loathe to talk up old Adolf here, but he did things that benefited his people (at first) and he was quite loyal and dependable to his band of thugs (up to the night of the long knives, that is).
Trump only pleases his class and foreign autocrats whilst replacing his trusted followers on a whim every now and then. It's simply baffling that no one has thrown him under the bus.
Yeah, Hitler understood that you needed the bread as well as the circuses.
That said, the degree to which he improved material conditions in Germany is overplayed in popular media. While the Nazis did push programs like the VW Beetle and cheap holiday packages, their relentless push to rearmament came at a serious cost to Germany's ability to produce or import consumer goods, and the average German frequently struggled with empty shelves in the supermarkets.
While the Nazis did push programs like the VW Beetle
Another point of order about that in particular, zero regular citizens who paid into the Beetle scheme with their little KdF-Wagen Sparkarte stamps actually received one. All of the Beetles produced went to Nazi party leaders, and then Germany went to war. Hitler may have successfully sold people on the dream of an affordable personal car but he literally used it as a mechanism to embezzle money from his own citizens which he stole and used for war production.
5 Mark die Woche musst du sparen wills Du im eignen wagen fahren, my webbed foot.
Excellent addition, thank you.
History really is set to the tune of Benny Hill in a minor key…
Yeah true, it's not like he was a magnificent ruler, but he didn't openly and brazenly shit on his constituents, service members and veterans.
It's just bizarre that Trump managrs to be worse than Hitler on many levels and only has had one attempt on his life.
This guy never cares about anybody.
The only time a narcissist thinks about other people is when they masturbate.
That's not true!
... he never cares about anybody who shouldn't already be in jail for life.
That's because he rides for free. smh
The only reason trump doesnt care about what happens to you, is because he believes you won't do anything about it.
So far, he's right.
"Listen, I only say I care about shit to get you to vote for me. I couldn't possibly care less what you have to pay. I'm the only thing that matters."
I think it is a big shift honestly. Before he would pretend to give a shit, etc.
Between this and "yeah, some people will die" he's not even making an effort anymore.
To me that is saying something. Precisely what I'm not sure but it's a marked change.
Strange, that wasn't the attitude during Biden's years. Almost like this fuckwad is a massive hypocrite
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.
Surely at least this way of generating power for EVs is more efficient than an engine that has to fit in a car?
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.
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.
It's up 75 cents in my area, just over the last week. I was originally saying we'll see $4 before the end of March, but I think we'll see it before the end of next week. We'll have $5 gas this summer.
Thanks, Trump.
i.e. I don’t give a shit about you pleebs living paycheck to paycheck.
But most of us already knew that.
"oh no, anyway" says man who's country's primary export is oil.
It's like he thinks there is nothing he can say or do that will turn his lickspittles against him...oh, wait...
Says the man baby (shitty diaper) who has probably never been behind the wheel of a car before
A business genius at work here
Gotta do what the mentally disturbed religious vision of the true leader tells him.
What a piece of shit.
maybe he'll reduce tariffs on cheap Chinese ecars :)
Typical, AmeriKa Last from the MAGA shitbags. Winning and a Great Deal!
Couldn't be more retrded
Well this will certainly piss off the layperson. This war shit will last until the midterms and that's it. This also sucks ass because liberals will win easily. Libs gotta go.
Oh, I wouldn't be so sure. Dems will probably take the House, but not the Senate.
I anticipate a few impeachment attempts that go nowhere. Then Trump will conquer Cuba for giggles. Then things will flip a bit more, and a Republican president will "declare war" on China for who knows why. Then none of this will matter.
Well then thank fuck for the 2nd amendment, lol.
I feel like folks here don't know what a US liberal is. Liberals are big money lefties usually in support of Israel and certainly paid by billionaire PACs. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, etc. These are status quo opportunists waiting to waste your tax dollars too...