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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(15,069 posts) Wed May 20, 2026, 01:40 PM Wednesday

Trump Blurts Stunning Gas Price Rant Amid Sinking Polls: 'This is Peanuts!'

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-blurts-stunning-gas-price-rant-amid-sinking-polls-this-is-peanuts/

REPORTER: Mr. President, you’ve pushed to suppress the federal gas tax–.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah.

REPORTER: Are there other initiatives that you’re thinking of (CROSSTALK) to try to lower costs–

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, there may be. It’s very temporary. Yeah, there may be. Anything to keep it down.

Look, as soon as this war is over, gas is going to–. You know, I had gasoline down to $1.85 cents in Iowa. I was in Iowa and the stations had it at $1 and 85 cents. But I was down to– in many cases, less than $2 a barrel, a gallon.

And then I said to myself… This is great. We just hit a new high in the stock market. Everything’s going good.

I’m sorry, but we have to go down and take a little journey down to– we have to do something with Iran. We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon.

You want to see the world exploded? You want to see a problem?

And this is peanuts! And I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. It won’t be much longer.

But you’re going to have, and frankly, there is so much oil out there. One of the things that is happening is these big ships are coming up to Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, and they’re loading up.

But I don’t even think about that. What I think about is you can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon, and they won’t have a nuclear weapons, and then they fully understand it.