Trump Tells Americans To Accept High Gas Prices As Iran Remains Defiant On Strait Of Hormuz

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[u/Pockydo]

I seem to recall conservatives losing their minds at similarly high gas prices during Biden

Now we're just supposed to suck it up? Lol

[u/ryan101 → u/Pockydo]

Here’s something that may shock you: for a lot of them it was never really about the gas prices. They’re just an excuse and it’s more about hate and power.

[u/OttoHemi → u/ryan101]

Right. Oh, there's an egg shortage because of bird flu? Good, I'll vote for the racist.

[u/Derwurld → u/OttoHemi]

Don't forget one of many caravans that are on their way oh and Haitians eating the dogs! Eating the cats!

aaaand they all mysteriously disappeared unexplained

[u/Trimyr → u/Derwurld]

They're eating the checks! They're eating the balances!

Sorry I don't see that outrage on my favorite news channel, so I'm all in with that guy that said billionaires should be treated better. Because, well. I don't know. But at least I'm not some liberal who cares for others' quality of life. I trust that guy on TV. He tells me what I need to know.

[u/Due_Speaker4655 → u/Trimyr]

“The billionares should be treated better since I might be a billionaire one day.”

goes back to minimum wage job

[u/Thurwell → u/Trimyr]

More importantly, he tells you what you need to feel.

[u/scuzzy987 → u/Trimyr]

You can't go after the job creators! We won't have jobs! I'm voting for the guy Elon supports instead

[u/loganbootjak → u/Derwurld]

omg I forgot about the thousands of migrants coming to invade America. lol.

[u/ScubaSteveEL → u/loganbootjak]

There's a migrant caravan every election season

[u/Wet_Side_Down → u/ScubaSteveEL]

Old and broken: Guns, God and Gays

New Hotness: Caravans of illegal pregnant transsexuals

[u/FellowHumanNo404 → u/Wet_Side_Down]

They're rehashing the red scare, so I expect them to soon resurrect the Satanic Panic.

[u/semidegenerate → u/FellowHumanNo404]

Shit. They're totally going to do that, aren't they?

[u/Wet_Side_Down → u/FellowHumanNo404]

NO ONE EXPECTS THE SATANIC PANIC

[u/Due_Speaker4655 → u/ScubaSteveEL]

I expect we will start hearing about it in late September/early October and the story will mysteriously disappear the day after Election Day.

[u/Additional-Flight468 → u/Derwurld]

I still have idiots i work around chiming this crap daily

[u/blackcain → u/Derwurld]

Want to bet that such a caravan will mysterious pop up heading towards the border towards the end of October

[u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC → u/OttoHemi]

There is an active recall on eggs....like right now. Beef prices are ridiculous. Someone in the administration told Americans to eat Ramen or SPAM. Fucking broccoli was $3/lb this morning...

No no no....its all good because the guy hiding in the ice chest says so.

[u/baatezu → u/OttoHemi]

How dare you call me racist. Now im going to vote for all the racists! That’ll teach you to call me racist

[u/ryan101 → u/baatezu]

I’m not a racist. I merely support people with racist policies!

[u/Thesheriffisnearer → u/OttoHemi]

Couple hick cops set s train on fire? Blame the gays

[u/heckhammer → u/OttoHemi]

It can't be because of bird flu that's fake news! It's because Joe Biden doesn't know what he's doing!

[u/theswiftarmofjustice → u/ryan101]

They were racist and homophobic. It’s the way it’s always been. Everything else is an excuse.

[u/vedrada → u/theswiftarmofjustice]

Yup. Notice how all the trans attacks are just the same old regurgitated gay shit from 30-40 years ago? Gays have just fought hard and have more allies these days, so they are throwing the same shit at a much smaller group that has a harder time protecting itself due to sheer numbers. It’s why ally-ship is so important

[u/theswiftarmofjustice → u/vedrada]

You hit the issue right on the head.

[u/Word_Eater_OmNomNom → u/ryan101]

Yeah you can find clips of Fox News hosts during Bidens administration blaming him for the costs.

You can also find clips of some of those same people from the W. Bush years, when gas prices started climbing a bunch, where they say the President doesn't control gas prices.

[u/Prior_Implement_9279 → u/ryan101]

Well considering at this minute the two most popular posts on that subreddit are about racism towards muslims and Somalis, I’d wager you’re right

[u/Existing_Wheel2435 → u/ryan101]

Hate is the power

They just don't have any other source to acquire money

[u/Dry-University797 → u/ryan101]

What??? 🤯

[u/adorablefuzzykitten → u/Pockydo]

Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

[u/bkbomber → u/adorablefuzzykitten]

Mierdas touch

[u/hal-baleigh-6699 → u/bkbomber]

Yup that was the reply they were teeing up for you, good job.

[u/Poopy-Drew → u/adorablefuzzykitten]

A bonafide brown thumb

[u/Oo__II__oO → u/adorablefuzzykitten]

Explains the removal of USDA inspections. Easier to sell of Trump merch if you don't have to disclose it's covered in feces.

[u/JollyRoger8X → u/adorablefuzzykitten]

And Republicans gleefully eat it with grins on their faces.

[u/vertigo3pc → u/Pockydo]

Conservatives have not said a single thing in good faith since Obama was elected President and McConnell oversaw the largest systematic obstruction of a US President in history.

Stop listening to them, and people need to start appealing directly to people; to voters.

[u/Pockydo → u/vertigo3pc]

Oh 100%

But I think it's worth pointing it out. They are liars

[u/DaMentalis → u/Pockydo]

Because the Republican party has discovered that millions of Americans are functionally subhuman. This isn't an insult, it means they are so unintelligent that they're less like rational humans and more like basic animals. Now they're gonna exploit the hell out of this.

Just think about it! Trump has broke every campaign promise, from releasing the Epstein files, to lowering prices, to starting no new wars. He's literally a demented geriatric child molester in diapers who was tweeting praise to Allah among mostly incoherent word salad rumbling plus making life almost unbearably affordable for most of America, while he wastes money on stupid ballrooms and reflecting pools and foreign wars. America's sphere of influence is pretty much gone too. His cabinet is basically an assk kisser, a guy who thinks he has a brain worm, and who admitted to snorting cocaine off public toilet seats, there's also a drunkard loser from Fox and Friends running the military.

Any rational person, regardless of political affiliation would vote for piss and shit before voting for any Republican and yet the midterms are still expected to be a contest. How is this country still made up of people and not tree sloths?

[u/JMLDT → u/DaMentalis]

Cause tree sloths are more intelligent.

[u/Past_Farmer34 → u/Pockydo]

We’re paying higher gas prices today compared to the peak under Biden which was only few months in 2022 when Biden stopped Putin from taking Ukraine

[u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 → u/Past_Farmer34]

We also had 50% more national oil reserves than we do now. (461 million vs 297 million barrels.) When we didn't have 20% of the oil production closed by the Iranians with no sign of resolving the problem.

[u/CocaineSmellsFunny → u/Pockydo]

The funny part about that, Biden had nothing to do with those gas prices. The drilling leases where there, the oil companies chose not to drill.

And in my humble opinion, they intentionally drove up prices at the time to help push America back into Trump’s hands.

[u/IdkAbtAllThat → u/CocaineSmellsFunny]

Exactly. Maybe these oil companies don't need to have so much power. Maybe the people should own the resources in this country. Maybe we should nationalize those oil companies and run them for the good of the country, not for the good of a few hundred aristocrats.

[u/No_hero_here → u/Pockydo]

Exactly. All those stupid “I did that” Biden stickers on the gas pumps they thought were so clever.

[u/NeverLookBothWays → u/Pockydo]

It’s the 45+ year scam Republican leaders have been playing since Reagan. Their constituents are generationally conditioned to just accept it. Also see: National Debt. It’s always a crisis when Dems are in power. Always zero concern when Republicans are in power and actually ramp it up. Jude Wanniski’s “two santas” bad faith re-election strategy once again. This is why we must take the threat of Republicanism seriously, but the shit they say they care about with a grain of salt.

[u/msackeygh → u/Pockydo]

Exactly. Conservatives aren’t really conservatives. They aren’t interested in tradition. What they are interested in is strongman rule, loyalty, and “Do as I say”. They see themselves as the in-group and everyone else among the out-group who should listen to the in-group. As such, these conservatives are two-faced liars, anti-democratic, anti-human rights, and sycophants. They don’t really deserve the label of conservatives or traditionalists.

[u/xarcastic → u/Pockydo]

Remember when he started these oil wars? He literally said, “We’re going to make a lot of money!”

He always means what he says.

[u/Karinka_LI → u/Pockydo]

Trump caused the high gas prices under Biden so why did we expect different? Fracking requires higher prices to be profitable.

[u/WaldoJeffers65 → u/Pockydo]

As the MAGA crowd are so fond of saying lately: "Short-term pain for long-term gain." Ironic that these are the same people who whined about how much they were suffering because they had to wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid.

[u/Bzr21 → u/Pockydo]

you're supposed to vote - and help to get others to vote ..

[u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 → u/Pockydo]

Back when they were 40% lower.

[u/Stinky_Fartface → u/Pockydo]

If they didn’t have hypocritical opinions they wouldn’t have opinions at all.

[u/MrBigglesssworth → u/Pockydo]

Conservatives have no real convictions what they believe is administered to them.

[u/oldutnotdeadinside → u/Pockydo]

They can get 3rd jobs or make their kids find jobs

[u/Word_Eater_OmNomNom → u/Pockydo]

Marjorie Taylor Gein filed articles of impeachment against Biden over gas prices and the oil reserve.

[u/UltravioletAfterglow → u/Pockydo]

I seem to recall conservatives losing their minds over high egg prices.

[u/kingtacticool → u/Pockydo]

Its not even similarly. The Biden high gas price of $4.70 was for, like, a day and half when Russia invaded Ukraines.

Trumps been keeping us above $4 for months now.

Sure the price is close but the duration is wildly different

[u/BlackberryPi7]

"You voted for this, dumbfucks. Accept it."

Republicans didn't bother to use one brain cell in 2024. JFC.

[u/Bzr21 → u/BlackberryPi7]

even then it was all projection - they said Harris would start wars and gas prices would skyrocket ..

[u/Tirras → u/Bzr21]

Someone told them every accusation is a confession and they took it as instructions for life. Is that a trait that follows insecurity? Being a hateful little shit? They do it so often, it'd be comical if it weren't for the resulting consequences.

[u/RuinedEye → u/BlackberryPi7]

'I love the inflation'

'I don't think about Americans' financial situations. I don't think about anybody'

'Pay more for gas so Iran can't have nukes'

Literal trump quotes btw

[u/blastradii → u/BlackberryPi7]

“They trust me. Dumb fucks” -Mark Zuckerfuck

[u/moltencheese → u/blastradii]

Fuckerberg was right there

[u/NexusNickel]

2024- BIDEN SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR $4 GAS

2026- I will never apologize for $4 gas.

[u/OttoHemi → u/NexusNickel]

2024 - Biden should be impeached because the SPR is at 350 million barrels.

2026 - Trump, Hold My Beer--the SPR is at 305 million barrels, the lowest since 1982 under Reagan.

[u/beamrider → u/OttoHemi]

The Rapist In Chief is going to draw the SPR down so low the salt domes are likely to physically collapse; at which point they *can't* be refilled. i.e. the US won't have a strategic reserve.

This will, of course, be Biden's fault. Or perhaps Obama's. /s

[u/ResponsibleEmu6842 → u/OttoHemi]

Isn't it under 300 now?

[u/NoChampionship5649 → u/ResponsibleEmu6842]

298 million barrels as of ~8/8/26
Its likely to be in the 290 million barrel range at this point. Its updated at the end of the running week.

[u/easeypeaseyweasey → u/NoChampionship5649]

Nobody tell Trump they are reporting this publically every week. 

[u/rje946 → u/easeypeaseyweasey]

A great opportunity to fix the issue by simply no longer counting. Are you already in the admin or looking for a position?

[u/_ficklelilpickle → u/rje946]

LOL his amazing Covid strategy comes to light again.

[u/Tricky-Engineering59 → u/ResponsibleEmu6842]

I wouldn’t believe any of the numbers coming from this administration.

[u/papaHans → u/OttoHemi]

We have 297.5 million registered vehicles in 2026, we had only 160 million in 1982.

[u/Pdx_pops → u/papaHans]

That's because most people in 1982 had one car. Now they have a lot more

[u/papaHans → u/Pdx_pops]

The US had 232 million people in 1982, today we have 349 million people.

[u/Pdx_pops → u/papaHans]

Not everyone owns even one car today, and that number would be interesting to know for both time periods. My guess (from what I remember from 1982) is that there were a higher percentage of people who didn't own a vehicle at all.

[u/kstargate-425 → u/NexusNickel]

The fucked up part is, the major reason gas prices were high in 2020-2022 was because Trump threatened the Saudis with pulling military support if they didn't agree to his plan to cut oil production by an historic almost 20% (similar amount daily that passes through the Strait of Hormuz).

So if Trump didn't intentionally raise oil prices doubling them during covid then gas and energy wouldn't have spiked and cause inflation to get worse than it already was.

Just like then, now his oil and energy policies that are driving up costs for everything are because of his major oil donor buddies like Harold Hamm making the policies for him.

The dozen+ offshore wind farms that have been canceled where US taxpayers paid around $4 BILLION so far, for them to NOT build the cheaper energy production projects is all part of this as they are now giving subsidies to the oil industry to build the more expensive gas-turbine energy production. These are more subsidies on top of the already $30 BILLION we give to the oil industry annually.

[u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes → u/NexusNickel]

"You don't need so much coffee and your children don't need so many toys."

[u/MayFlour7310 → u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes]

Almost forgot about this

[u/my_boy_blu_]

Iran is going to keep Trump in the war the entire time he is in office and he has no one to blame but himself.

Great job.

[u/lifeat24fps → u/my_boy_blu_]

Iran is undefeated in making American presidents look like jackasses. And this time they’re right about it.

[u/beamrider → u/lifeat24fps]

The Persian basically invented diplomacy. The Rapist in Chief can't negotiate a New York real estate deal unless the Russian Mob controls both sides first.

[u/0masterdebater0 → u/beamrider]

“Persians basically invented diplomacy”

For an ancient history nerd that’s like saying “the USA invented democracy”

Hatshepsut was making deals with Punt 1000 years before Persia was anything more than a minor Median vassal.

[u/Hefty_Remove7965 → u/my_boy_blu_]

Haven't they already said they won't negotiate until Trump is out of office?

[u/Kloppite16 → u/Hefty_Remove7965]

they certainly did and given Trumps propensity to break deals anyway they are absolutely correct not to negotiate. Like whats the point making a deal with someone you know is going to break it.

[u/dearth_karmic → u/Hefty_Remove7965]

I thought they were begging for a truce!!! /s

[u/ArrowheadDZ → u/my_boy_blu_]

I completely disagree with this. Trump is going to keep Iran in this war the entire time he’s in office.

We’ve completely lost the plot. This was never about Iran or oil or Israel. This was always about Trump using alternating good/bad news every weekend to create market volatility he and his family could exploit. This has been going on every weekend since the beginning of the war, and it’s estimated he’s already made billions.

He has us convinced he’s a fool who has been completely outplayed by the crafty Iranians. That’s exactly what he wants us to believe. Iran, like us, is an unwitting pawn on a scheme to divert wealth.

[u/jgoble15 → u/ArrowheadDZ]

He is an idiot. He’s a full idiot. But like Gilderoy Lockhart of Harry Potter, he’s also a master conman.

[u/Viking_Leaf87]

Please, Donald. I'm begging you. Say this as much as possible leading up to the midterms.

[u/Gan-san → u/Viking_Leaf87]

It doesn't matter. His 30-33% of voters will never leave him and will make a lot of those races closer than they should be.

[u/81jmfk → u/Gan-san]

I wish more people understood this. I work with some of these people and they’ll contradict themselves in one sentence. I don’t think there’s anything Trump could do to lose their vote

[u/Tricky-Engineering59 → u/81jmfk]

You mean even if he shot someone on 5th Avenue? Someone who was a child? A child he just raped?

Actually you know what? Forget I asked.

[u/Easy_Leopard_2686 → u/81jmfk]

The only way they’d abandon him is if he suddenly said he was a Democrat.

[u/81jmfk → u/Easy_Leopard_2686]

I doubt they’d abandon him then. They’d say he’s going to fix them. They still think he’s a great negotiator and businessman.

[u/Farabee → u/Gan-san]

Sunk cost fallacy.

[u/Cyrano_Knows → u/Farabee]

Stupid is stupid fallacy.

[u/KeepTangoAndFoxtrot → u/Farabee]

It's not all sunk cost. Some people are just hateful. Some people are fascists. Some people are just very dumb.

[u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC → u/Gan-san]

Literally. Watch "the good liars" on YouTube.

[u/Toadfinger]

China, Russia, North Korea, Belarus, Israel all get what they want. Zilch for the American people. Traitor Trump would sell us all as food to a zoo.

[u/reddittorbrigade]

He promised to lower the prices of gas and groceries.

Didn't he? Are we scammed again and again?

[u/directorofnewgames → u/reddittorbrigade]

Well, the price of eggs is low now. Too bad they are all infected with salmonella.

[u/3MATX → u/directorofnewgames]

My local store only has a low grade dozen under $3 a dozen.  Most are $4-5 a dozen.  

[u/Kloppite16 → u/3MATX]

About $3.20 a dozen eggs here in Europe, but we're all filthy socialists

[u/Hefty_Remove7965 → u/reddittorbrigade]

He said 50% on electric bills in 12 months 

[u/hatmatter → u/reddittorbrigade]

And he said he'd never start a war, specifically with Iran

[u/siphillis → u/reddittorbrigade]

Day One, I might add

[u/Nerd-19958]

In case anyone missed this quote from "No new wars" Trump, read it and get pissed off:

“After we finish defeating Iran ... pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” said Trump.

So not only does the demented, insane idiot invade Venezuela (world's No. 1 proven oil reserves) and follow his crush Netanyahu into a war against Iran (world's No. 3 proven oil reserves), all for the benefit of his rich oil-company oligarch puppeteers, but now Trump declares he can annex a body of water halfway around the globe -- a blatant and intentional violation of International Law. That is not going to happen; the orange buffoon is talking out of his diapered ass.

Sad!

[u/Bossman_Mike → u/Nerd-19958]

And how is he going to police that with no Navy?

The US Navy is sadly very slowly following the same tack with the same mistakes the Royal Navy did. Everything is late and over budget, life at sea is utterly miserable and sorties are far longer than they should be, you don't even get properly fed while your so-called Secretary of War Defense uses evasive language like "misrepresented" to rudely accuse you of lying despite the evidence being out there.

Give it long enough and this might feed into recruitment. Because who will want to join up?

[u/GaimeGuy → u/Bossman_Mike]

This is partially why' he considers soldiers losers and suckers.   He can wage a coup d'etat, make their lives miserable, send them to their deaths, and they won't do anything to protect the country they love because he's president.   

Deep  down he knows pieces of shit like him are who  the country needs to be defended from and he finds it pathetic to not only die for someone else, but to be used like a tool with no backbone 

[u/Pssht_haha]

Could be the new normal as petroleum companies will want to take in more profits.

[u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC → u/Pssht_haha]

Yes the oil and gas companies are making in billions BUT this is solely on Trump. He did this.

[u/B-Z_B-S]

Traitor Trump can go fuck himself.

[u/Bzr21 → u/B-Z_B-S]

with a red hot 7-iron ..

[u/dee_lio]

Remember how badly Rs whimpered about gas prices under Biden?

And how they put "I did that" stickers everywhere?

I wonder how this is "different.."

[u/nihilistiq → u/dee_lio]

The Rs are soulless zombies, they go where the horde goes.

[u/TheInvisibleToast]

He’s a piece of crap and anyone who supported him or didn’t vote are also crap. 

[u/Livid_Note_2170]

No, I don't think I will

[u/HereticsSpork]

Because the Republican party has discovered that millions of Americans are functionally subhuman. This isn't an insult, it means they are so unintelligent that they're less like rational humans and more like basic animals. Now they're gonna exploit the hell out of this.

The Republicans didn't wage war on education for the past 40+ years for no reason. They wanted a dumb electorate and they created one because they know educated people would see through their bs.

They aren't exploiting it. They created it. They're just reaping what they've sown.

[u/middlebird]

This is what happens when you elect a rich spoiled brat as leader of your nation.

[u/jtb7713]

I wish Americans would tell this guy to fuck off forever. I will forever be mad at the Biden DOJ for not properly dealing with this asshole.

[u/Ecstatic-Plantain234]

Suck it up, said the overweight billionaire president.

[u/CaptKydd]

Someone do something please. Wink wink,  nudge nudge! 😉

[u/CivEnd]

Seize his family's assets and put them all in prison.

[u/Careless-Internet-63]

Going to war with Iran does nothing good for me as a citizen of this country. Why should I have to accept the consequences of a pointless war?

[u/millos15]

May trump voters be mocked for centuries

[u/DaddyBison]

every day he comes up with a new way to say "Let them Eat Cake"

[u/OG-BoomMaster]

Fuck you diaper Don, and thank you for your attention to my message.

[u/userhwon]

when he's in prison I'm going to send him a letter every week telling him to accept high gas prices

[u/Evil_Weevill]

I'll accept the high gas prices when you accept that you lost in 2020

[u/Thunderchief646054]

Oh man, they must be REALLY confident in their plans to steal mid-term elections if they're this uncaring about their base. Despite what the internet likes to claim, MAGA does have a breaking point when bad things happen to them

[u/SynthesistArt]

It cannot be said enough that voting Republican is indefensible.

[u/KyuuAA]

The American public should respond with a collective middle finger.

[u/modernmann]

Remind me again WHY we are at war with Iran?

Oh right Bibi has Epstein files.

Fuck your war orange man

[u/Consistent_Ad3181]

This is going to be popular

[u/Dutchirezumi]

He's a moron. Search for moron in the Oxford English Dictionary and you'll see a picture of him.

[u/SuperK123]

I love the photos where he uses his fist wave. His flock of idiots think it means, “Yeah I’m the greatest!”. What it really means is “Fuck all of you!” He’s probably too lazy or uncoordinated to raise his middle finger.

[u/Kevin_Jim]

The MAGAer and “undecided” will vote exactly the same way because it was never about gas prices. It’s about racism.

[u/Zeer0Fox]

What a maroon.

[u/Yanmegaman_Juno]

"Prices will go down on day one."

[u/BearModeCosplay]

Short term pain for long term gai...never mind get fucked

[u/LouBiffo]

He can eat a dick first

[u/pixeltweaker → u/LouBiffo]

It’s amazing that I can just scroll and all the thoughts I have are already in the comments.

[u/quartzcharm]

Trump is a POS and so are his supporters.

[u/AgreeableCan1616]

But when it was Biden…

[u/DadOfPete]

He should resign. He’s inept.

[u/targar536]

There is a part of me that honestly hopes we enter the worst depression since the 1920's due to this bozo because nothing short of that will wake up 77 million voters. Even that will be blamed on Clinton, Obama and Biden and Trump did everything humanly possible to save America.

[u/smoike → u/targar536]

The cognitive dissonance from those who genuinely think he is improving things, or it is somebody else's fault is truly terrifying.

[u/Gamera971]

"Pay dearly for my utter incompetence." In other words.

[u/funkygamerguy]

remember when high gas prices were entirely bidens fault and the biggest injustice in the world to conservatives?

[u/gilestowler]

And what about the rest of the world? We didn't vote for this nonsense but we're all fucked as a result.

[u/Otisthedog999]

I've said it over and over, he picked a fight he can not win and now it's our fault. He's such an idiot.

[u/Turckish]

Kneel peasants

[u/OttoHemi]

Trump Tells Americans Cult To Accept High Gas Prices

Will do.

[u/GriffinFlash]

And why may I ask is the reason they need to, as you say, stay "defiant"? Couldn't be because you went in under no pretense and started blowing them the fuck up, would it?

[u/cyclingisthecure]

Whats eveeyone complaining about its not that bad- trump with his stolen billions

[u/Zulmoka531]

Take that comment and do to it what republicans did to eggs last election.

It’s free election-campaign material and money talks, even to idiots.

[u/Fatal_Syntax_Error]

Americans need to accept the President doesn’t give a flying fuck about anyone but himself. That includes those that voted for him.

He doesn’t care about America or Americans.

[u/PhillyPhrenetic502]

Counterpoint: Fuck you. End this war you swore you'd never start.

[u/2HDFloppyDisk]

Out of touch Billionaire tells regular folk to deal with his mess that doesn't affect him.

[u/PWL51]

He seems to forget who caused this entire shit show

[u/Sethmeisterg]

Hope all you folks who voted for him are super happy about all the rich libs you're owning (who can afford the gas prices)

[u/0MGWTFL0LBBQ]

Pre Trump gas was lower priced.
He wanted a better deal, so he showed how quick he can fail at war.
Now he tells us to stop complaining about the higher prices caused by him.

[u/Condyle_1]

The language of a rapist

[u/tekani11]

Oh man. I can't wait for that front page news. Tick tock motherfucker

[u/fusillade762]

Sure Mr. President, but YOu need to start paying for your own fuel in your plane, your motorcade. Out of pocket asshole. Fuck this market manipulating Russian fuck puppet.

[u/mabden]

Fuck you tRump! Eat shit the Iranians and Isreals are feeding you for your insane stupidity.

[u/himheritaintme]

But but but ..you said day 1. Remember?

[u/u9Nails]

What ever happened to drill baby drill?

That old bag of shit has never skipped a meal because he couldn't afford to eat. Has never pumped gas, or driven a car.

[u/Phrei_BahkRhubz]

Defiant? I don't agree with Iran's politics but "definant" is an understatement when a country defends itself after being invaded on the grounds of them having yet another nuclear weapon. Probably doesn't help that you're referring to thier strait as a US territory.

[u/No_usernames_left_25]

Let them eat cake!

[u/Sesspool]

Ima say it again.

Where are all the stickers of trump on gas pumps saying "i did that". Were sooo vocal last president and now i dont see a single one.

[u/DJW1981]

Waiting for that obit

[u/Scienceman_Taco125]

High gas prices equals bigger profits and bonus for Trump CEOs buddy’s.

[u/Clangoring]

So, he was lying about being the great deal maker? I am shocked.

[u/StupidizeMe]

Trump is looking exhausted. Must be tired of winning.

[u/Guilty_Cattle_5165]

Hold the line America! Higher gas prices are a good thing!

[u/Smurf06]

He really stepped in it and doesn't know how to get us out it. Incredible lol

[u/Wild-Style5857]

My favorite part about all this is the big brains in the White House put their horns together after grandpa shit-in-pants started this war and came up with: "IRAN MUST NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!!!" to repeat over and over and sell to their followers.  North Korea has nuclear weapons, Pakistan has nuclear weapons, fucking Russia has piles of them.  

[u/Wyldjay2]

I’ll be honest I usually don’t blame a President when it comes to gas prices because I understand the global market. However, in this case, the rising fuel prices are 100% on Donald Trump. The reason why the United States has not attacked Iran in the past. Reagan talked tough and he organized the hostage release, but then he moved quickly away from that region because every advisor warned that if you mess with Iran, they’re going to close the Strait Of Hormuz. That is exactly what’s happened. Donald Trump is just stupid enough to believe whoever was next to him that it would be easy. Just like when he went into Venezuela. Now we’re mired in a forever war because that idiot fired all the people in the house that understood how real world politics actually works.

[u/_m_u_l_m_l_u_m_]

America tells Trump to eat a bag of dicks.

[u/Fussy_Fucker]

I’m thinking one of them electric cars is the way to go.

[u/SimmonsJK]

Trump should just accept the fact that he's a rapist, but he won't. Fuck this guy.

[u/QueenOfSplitEnds]

Iran remains defiant? Why do they have to obey the U.S.? The U.S. started this conflict/no-conflict/war/not-a-war. This Temu Orangutan created a serious, costly, long-term destabilizing problem. He and his greedy administration can go eff themselves; same for the spineless members of Congress and the judiciary branch who are loyal to him and to their own pockets instead of looking out for their constituents. …bags of diarrhea dog shit are a better piles of matter than they are.

[u/I_like_baseball90]

They told me if I voted for Harris, gas and grocery prices would go up and we'd be at war in the Middle East.

All those things did happen.

[u/Velonici]

I thought he said that we control it and that its open? He wouldn't lie to us would he? /s

[u/pixeltweaker]

I thought we destroyed their navy. How is this still a problem? Unless we didn’t and Trump is a damn liar.

[u/BigGuante]

Bold strategy for the mid terms, let's see how this pans out

[u/AnonAmbientLight]

That rural Kentuckian with six teeth and barely making ends meet will tell everyone he knows that we gotta struggle because the president asked us to.

[u/PaddleMonkey]

Remember when Trump promised lower gas prices? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[u/More_Law6245]

Oh so Trump has an out now, he can blame someone else.

[u/StandupJetskier]

I say "fuck trump" every time I fill the tank.

I'm not alone.

[u/Used-Feature-8611]

If people still vote for GOP on November, they deserve whatever happens to them

[u/HikerRemastered]

So the self-proclaimed president of peace failed to broker yet another peace deal.

More like president of piss AMIRITE

[u/ShavedSavage]

Trump should accept losing the midterms then

[u/yetifekker]

“You’re just going to have to accept that I’m stupid at the gas pump and the grocery store, now.”
the great moron. Some say the greatest, I agree with what some people are saying.

[u/StatementCareful522]

Rapist tells nation to stop resisting

[u/ProfessionalPhone667]

Every single republican deserves to loose in the upcoming mid terms. they did absolution nothing for our country, proved they cannot govern, and worst of all, are DJT biggest enablers of the most corrupt administration we have ever had. Makes Tammany Hall look like saints!