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Donald Trump said Thursday that gasoline prices are “not very high.”

A Quinnipiac University national poll of registered voters showed that 65% of U.S. voters blame Trump either “a lot” or “some” for the rise in gas prices seen since the beginning of the Iran war.

Trump said those prices are not as high as what was expected from the war, which he said was aimed at denying Iran the ability to produce a nuclear weapon.

        • metallic_substance@lemmy.world
          6·
          16 days ago

          Yeah, but that’s in euro-dollars, or whatever you call them over there. Who even knows how much that is in real dollars? (I honestly wish I could claim /s on this, but this is literally how most Americans would see it)

          • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            16 days ago

            It’s definitely a stereotype for a reason. Briefly talked to a US or Canadian couple in their 40s-50s last year, they were traveling Europe. They were in slight disbelief that a driver wouldn’t take dollars/any other currency from a Chinese couple who had no Euros left on them. I wonder how it would go for me if I tried to pay in Euros in NA. Probably not great.

            • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
              3·
              16 days ago

              I’d really like to believe it wasn’t a Canadian couple 😭. We deal with Americans trying to use USD here too and I can’t see any of us expecting to be able to use CAD anywhere outside of our country

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
      16·
      16 days ago

      He wouldn’t care if he did. He just says what he wants to be true and gets away with it.

  • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
    77·
    16 days ago

    I seem to recall him claiming that he would get gas under $2/gallon. Where are we at on that?

    Gas prices aren’t my primary concern. I’ve hated him for years for better reasons, but gas prices seems to be the only thing that is waking his supporters up.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      17·
      16 days ago

      Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them. Fuel prices are actually crazy complicated and The President generally has very little control over them (unlike in this case).

      Honestly I prefer the fuel prices to be higher to persuade the population to make better choices. I understand some bear that pain more than others.

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
        11·
        16 days ago

        Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them.

        In this case, the President ordering a needless war on Iran against all expert advice, and then vowing to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, not to mention all the USA’s attacks on other countries and moronic isolationist trade policies over the last year, makes it more the President’s fault than it usually would be.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        3·
        16 days ago

        The way I like to frame it is that no president has a “make gas cheap” button, but they all have a lot of “make gas expensive” buttons. Trump likes pressing those buttons because they aren’t labeled as such

    • booly@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      16 days ago

      The thing is, when someone is bad at many different parts of their job, it’s easier to build a coalition of people who each want him removed, for their own reasons.

  • Ech@lemmy.ca
    61·
    16 days ago

    That didn’t happen.
    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. <----
    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
    And if it is, that’s not my fault.
    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
    And if I did, you deserved it.

      • Ech@lemmy.ca
        12·
        16 days ago

        Not mine, fwiw. It’s circulated as “The Narcissist’s Prayer” online.

        • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
          1·
          16 days ago

          At what point do we realize their strategy is to contend good rhetoric and reason, and it is quite effective, so reasonably we ought consider less reasonable approaches. Not necessarily unreasonable, but surely areasonable (if you’ll give me that). Not to tether my thread to the Marxist ideology but I believe they had a term for something like this, the “Great Refusal.” Modern equivalent, “fuck off, we’ll move on without you.” Not to the politics, but to their sources of power… in essence, maybe, when do we build infrastructure and demand public ownership of it? When do we organize unions and general strikes without playing by the elitist establishment’s rules for doing so? When do we prioritize seeking out manners to fill the majority of our free time by means opposed to consumerism altogether? When do we as communities secure the functional ability to resolve our own needs for retirement and break the established dependence on financial markets or labor for securities in our vulnerable years? Surely there’s quite a few ways we can be doing a lot more as a society.

  • ooboontoo@lemmy.world
    15·
    16 days ago

    I actually agree with him… They aren’t very high in comparison to how high they are going to be very soon!

  • Bwaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    16 days ago

    Only 65%??? Who the hell do the rest think caused the increase by starting a war of choice?

    • Oyml77@lemmy.today
      6·
      15 days ago

      35% is about the point at which you will always have Republicans supporting something regardless of how awful it is as long as it is a Republican position. 40 years of brainwashing by right-wing propaganda and corporate media complicity with it ensure it.

  • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
    10·
    16 days ago

    So the Bidenification is going in record time - he’s now to the “no stupids, the economy is fine actually, you’re just too dumb to realize it!” phase.

    How’d that work for Biden, I forget?

    • prole
      20·
      16 days ago

      *Republicans do something bad

      “This is just like Biden!”

    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
      5·
      16 days ago

      The economy was significantly better under Biden, who started his term with a global shutdown. Inflation was brought back to normal levels, job creation was higher than under Trump and the US had a decently strong economy in comparison to other countries.

      You didn’t forget, you’re dishonest. Either a MAGA troll or a useful idiot for MAGA.

      • zbyte64@awful.systems
        3·
        16 days ago

        Both can be true. Biden was improving the economy in places, but many people did not feel the recovery.

      • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
        2·
        16 days ago

        Shitlib, not everyone that doesn’t worship your version of neoliberalism is a Trump supporter. I’m a fucking Marxist.

        Biden’s economy continued the path of the US since the 1990s - stagnant wages, so most growth goes to the rich in a K shaped economy. The gains the workers saw were quickly rolled back in the name of “curbing inflation”, which of course fell on the working class, not asset holders.

        You want to play statistic games like you are, we can talk about how child overtly doubled under Biden after he chose to let the child tax credit expire.

        Or we can skip it - because 2024 already gave a verdict on this. For years Bidenonmics tried the “no, the shit you’re eating is good actually”, and that’s why you have Trump again.

  • excral@feddit.org
    7·
    15 days ago

    Trump said those prices are not as high as what was expected from the war

    So if we believe him, he expected it to be even worse and still went ahead?

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    Donald Trump said Thursday that gasoline prices are “not very high.”

    So, does that mean he’s going to do things to make it go even higher?

    As in “it’s not high yet”?

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    What is wild is that so many reactionary centrists spent years lecturing the Biden administration and “blue MAGA” 🙄 for trying to explain the full context of the economy under Covid and instead trying to insist that instead of numbers, we should be listening to the vibes, man. Ignore all those market indicators, people feel bad, man, and anyone that says otherwise should be ashamed, etc.

    Wonder where all these assholes are now, given that, as opposed to the case for Biden, we can point DIRECTLY at something that PEDOnald has done to drive things that hurt the economy and make everything more expensive.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    This fucker is so removed from reality he has no clue what’s expensive and what isn’t. I’d wager he’s never operated a gas pump in his life.

    You could give him a $200k salary, a home in some little town, and a car that was all paid for, and he’d starve to death in a year. He is beyond clueless as to what people have to do on a daily basis.