Trump promised cheap gas and no new wars, then delivered expensive gas and a war. Some of his voters have noticed.
The New York Times talked to Trump voters in several battleground states as they filled up their cars. Some still back him. Some think the war is necessary. Others are beginning to sound like people who bought the “businessman” routine and got an invoice with missiles on it.
But since the president took America to war with Iran, gasoline prices have climbed to their highest levels in four years. Mr. Trump has said he is negotiating a deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil shipping, and the average price of gas has decreased slightly to $4.34 a gallon as of Sunday. But it is still more than a dollar higher than this time last year.
Are his voters angry? More than two-thirds say they approve of his handling of the war and about six in 10 support his handling of the cost of living, according to the latest New York Times/Siena poll.
But with the November midterm elections five months away, many Americans who backed Mr. Trump in 2024 are wrestling with pain at the pump and contemplating if it should weigh into their decisions in the fall. A fifth of Trump voters say the war is not worth the cost, and a third are unsure, the poll found.
One Michigan voter told the Times that filling up “hurts.” A Cincinnati voter said the second Trump term did not give him “the greatest feeling.” Another former supporter said Trump’s first administration was great, but now the war and gas prices are making things feel very different.
That is the problem with running on grocery bills, gas prices, and magical foreign-policy toughness. Eventually, the receipt comes out of the pump.
What you have to remember is that President Donald John Trump runs the US like he runs his companies. He works on hunches. Even though he has a coterie of assistants he trusts his hunches and they are what determines his actions.
At the end of his first term as President in 2020, he had a hunch that the election was rigged. No matter what his Department of Justice told him he simply knew the fix was in. Donald John Trump rode that hunch to victory in the 2024 Presidential election.
At the start of his second term as President he had a hunch that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon. Despite what his Defense Department and the various National Intelligence agencies told him and the fact the he had an on going agreement with the nation of Iran to not develop nuclear weapons and to allow independent monitoring of their nuclear program, on a hunch, President Donald John Trump ripped up that agreement and resurrected the Department of War. Some how, the prophet that President Trump is knew that war was coming.
Also, during the first year of his second Presidency he had a hunch that food prices would go up. He immediately made a deal with Argentina to import their beef tariff-free therefore freeing the American ranchers to a life of ease raising their pet cattle. Bird-Flu put the kibosh to his egg price reduction plans but he made deals with China, Japan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Ecuador among others to sell US agricultural products at low prices to aid the uneducated US farmers.
Keep the faith America...
On the real deal; How the hell do his cabinet members make up shit like this every single day and sleep at night? I really do not understand the Epstein class.
Why would a “billionaire” care about the price you little people pay for gas?