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turbinetree

(27,438 posts) Mon Mar 9, 2026, 06:06 PM Monday

Trump Shrugs Off Soaring Gas Prices: 'If They Rise, They Rise'

Billionaire Trump could not care less about your pain at the pump.

By NewsHound Ellen — March 9, 2026

The guy who has made billions for himself and his family by conning his way back into the White House with phony promises to lower costs has sent them skyrocketing again. Now, he is not even pretending to care.

"I don't have any concern about it," Donald Trump recently told Reuters about the higher gas prices his attack on Iran has caused. "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."

A little bit? Prices have already surged 35% this week thanks to Trump’s major disruption of global energy supplies. That’s probably just the start.

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/03/trump-shrugs-soaring-gas-prices-if-they

This traitor and that is what he is just bilking the taxpayers out of more money playing golf this weekend, we the taxpayers now, have paid 100 million dollars and could top around 300 million......hey ..........John Roberts what do you think .......since you granted him immunity along with your other fiscal conservative bench minders of BS.......your more worried about attacking the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and voting rights, how does it feel to have enabled corruption and him spewing this BS ......I hope that there are 20,000 people at Mar A Lago on the 28th of March.......November cannot get here fast enough............

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Trump Shrugs Off Soaring Gas Prices: 'If They Rise, They Rise' (Original Post) turbinetree Monday OP

Well, I have one for him then! AZJonnie Monday #1

Topped off my gas tank was $4.89 a gallon today at Costco 2 weeks ago I paid $3.79 here in California kimbutgar Monday #2

MaddowBlog-Trump and his allies pitch a new idea: Maybe higher gas prices aren't 'bad news' LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #3

AZJonnie

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1. Well, I have one for him then!

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Mon Mar 9, 2026, 06:15 PM

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kimbutgar

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2. Topped off my gas tank was $4.89 a gallon today at Costco 2 weeks ago I paid $3.79 here in California

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Mon Mar 9, 2026, 06:16 PM

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LetMyPeopleVote

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3. MaddowBlog-Trump and his allies pitch a new idea: Maybe higher gas prices aren't 'bad news'

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Thu Mar 12, 2026, 04:17 PM

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We’ve reached the point at which the president wants consumers to be glad they’re paying more at the pump.

Trump, in late October: â€œWith the Democrats, youâ€™ll be paying , , and a Gallon.â€

Trump, today, as gas prices approach the levels he warned about five months ago: â€œWhen oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.â€

If Dems are lucky, the White House will keep pushing this line.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-12T16:48:06.117Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-and-his-allies-pitch-a-new-idea-maybe-higher-gas-prices-arent-bad-news

It was against this backdrop that the Republican president rolled out a very different kind of message on Thursday morning. Just 17 weeks after he wrote, “Under President Trump, ME, Gasoline will come down to approximately $2 a Gallon,” Trump tried selling Americans on the opposite message.

“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” Trump wrote.

Yes, we’ve reached the point at which the president wants consumers to be glad they’re paying more at the pump.

As a substantive matter, the problem with Trump’s claim is that the word “we” was doing a lot of work in his sentence. It’s true that the United States is producing a lot of oil, and it’s also true that higher prices help generate oil industry profits. But since the number of Americans who benefit from oil industry profits is very small, few will likely celebrate the hit to their wallets.

Complicating matters, Trump isn’t alone on this. Kelly Loeffler, head of the Small Business Administration, downplayed the importance of rising gas prices in a podcast interview this week. And on Thursday morning, Energy Secretary Chris Wright appeared on Fox News and pushed a line that was eerily similar to the president’s: “Fortunately, the United States, we produce more oil than we can consume; we’re a net oil exporter. So overall for the U.S. economy, this isn’t bad news.”

This is a message that Republicans will continue to embrace in the coming weeks and months if Democrats are extremely lucky.

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