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LilElf70

(1,624 posts)
Mon May 4, 2026, 05:32 PM 21 hrs ago

Trump Boasts That 'Everyone Was Wrong' About Oil Prices Amid Iran War: They Thought it Would Be '$300 a Barrel'

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-boasts-that-everyone-was-wrong-about-oil-prices-amid-iran-war-they-thought-it-would-be-300-a-barrel/

This guy is out of his mind. So, who is "EVERYONE"? You know, he uses that term all the time when it's actually "no one", as he can't name 1 person when confronted. And who the hell said 300 a barrel? That would mean 10 bucks a gallon to the consumer. Odd's are someone said it, but not EVERYONE?

This has to be his total stupidity to make us feel better about a 2 dollar a gallon increase since he started from this illegal fake stupid war.

I am so fed up with the lies, corruption, and total bullshit.
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Trump Boasts That 'Everyone Was Wrong' About Oil Prices Amid Iran War: They Thought it Would Be '$300 a Barrel' (Original Post) LilElf70 21 hrs ago OP
he always has to be "right" Skittles 21 hrs ago #1
My god would he just fucking shut his goddamned mouth for once Blue Owl 21 hrs ago #2
Could've swore D_Master81 21 hrs ago #3
He is trying to make a 50+% price increase seem like a victory by claiming the projection was 300%. RockRaven 21 hrs ago #4
He lies so he can argue things are better than expected Renew Deal 21 hrs ago #5
Some states might be flirting closer to 10 dollars this summer. FascismIsDeath 21 hrs ago #6
Like when he said that people would save over 100% on prescription drugs Renew Deal 21 hrs ago #7
Oh don't get me started on that "Trumpian Percentages" bullshit. FascismIsDeath 20 hrs ago #9
"And they said the chocolate ration would be cut to five grammes." muriel_volestrangler 20 hrs ago #8
What an incredible book fujiyamasan 13 hrs ago #14
All these examples....... LilElf70 19 hrs ago #10
This is worrying if true Johonny 19 hrs ago #11
Every Presidential election, trump has claimed that if his opponant wins.... 70sEraVet 18 hrs ago #12
No worries.. he will bring gas prices down 800%, maybe even 1,500% bsiebs 18 hrs ago #13
all his goalposts are on wheels eShirl 8 hrs ago #15
Everyone says that he's a demented moron PCIntern 6 hrs ago #16
Demented morons definitely LilElf70 24 min ago #17

Skittles

(172,512 posts)
1. he always has to be "right"
Mon May 4, 2026, 05:37 PM
21 hrs ago

and all too often he has to make shit up as the "proof" for his deluded base

D_Master81

(2,654 posts)
3. Could've swore
Mon May 4, 2026, 05:47 PM
21 hrs ago

A week ago he said $200 now it’s $300. My guess is that he was given an update where 200 is more possible so he’s moving the goalposts preemptively. Cause honestly if you went to war with the chance that oil could 6X in price you are being incredibly irresponsible. 300 wrecks the world economy

RockRaven

(19,678 posts)
4. He is trying to make a 50+% price increase seem like a victory by claiming the projection was 300%.
Mon May 4, 2026, 05:59 PM
21 hrs ago

It is still a 50% price rise.

It was around $70/barrel right before his war started. This week it is $105 or so.

And the $70 starting point of this comparison was on the high side of where prices had been during his term. If you go back a full year, for example, current oil prices are up 80+%.

Renew Deal

(85,305 posts)
5. He lies so he can argue things are better than expected
Mon May 4, 2026, 06:02 PM
21 hrs ago

BS sales tactic that at least some people fall for.

Someone should ask him why he would go forward with the war if he was expecting a 300% increase. That's almost $9 per gallon

FascismIsDeath

(231 posts)
6. Some states might be flirting closer to 10 dollars this summer.
Mon May 4, 2026, 06:02 PM
21 hrs ago

So if/when that happens, he'll repeat the same statement only replacing 300 with 400.

Renew Deal

(85,305 posts)
7. Like when he said that people would save over 100% on prescription drugs
Mon May 4, 2026, 06:05 PM
21 hrs ago

The drug companies wouldn't just give it way for free. They would pay you to take the medication.

He lies constantly

FascismIsDeath

(231 posts)
9. Oh don't get me started on that "Trumpian Percentages" bullshit.
Mon May 4, 2026, 07:02 PM
20 hrs ago

I'd rather eat glass than try to discern whatever the hell he and RFKj are trying to push with that nonsense.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,493 posts)
8. "And they said the chocolate ration would be cut to five grammes."
Mon May 4, 2026, 06:15 PM
20 hrs ago
As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a ‘categorical pledge’ were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984. Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week. All that was needed was to substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the ration at some time in April.
...
For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes. Syme, too-in some more complex way, involving doublethink, Syme swallowed it.


Johonny

(26,482 posts)
11. This is worrying if true
Mon May 4, 2026, 07:33 PM
19 hrs ago

It would mean someone, likely from the military, has briefed him that 300$ a barrel oil is possible. Probably not from a short to moderate length war, but from a year or two length engagement. Here, Trump is likely telling us the worst case scenario. Instead of the blow smoke up your ass scenario he usually gives us.

70sEraVet

(5,585 posts)
12. Every Presidential election, trump has claimed that if his opponant wins....
Mon May 4, 2026, 08:09 PM
18 hrs ago

Gas would be $5 per gallon.

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