Trump Keeps Lying About Gas Prices
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As Donald Trump nears his 79th birthday, he seems to get more delusional every day. One figment of his lying mind is his repeated claim that gas prices have gone below $2.00 a gallon. Spoiler alert: They haven’t.
Two weeks ago, Trump falsely claimed “a couple” states had just seen gas prices fall to $1.98 per gallon. That was not even close to true – no state had an average lower than about $2.70 per gallon, and there was no evidence any individual station was offering gas for under $2 per gallon – but the next day Trump said “three states” had just hit $1.98 per gallon, which was also far from the truth.
Trump repeated this inaccurate assertion about three $1.98 states at least three times this week. Then, during a commencement address at the University of Alabama on Thursday night, he used an even lower figure.
On Friday, Trump repeated the $1.98 falsehood and called that day’s price the “lowest in years,” CNN noted. That’s not true, either.
In reality, the national average on Thursday was about $3.19 per gallon of gas, up from the $3.12 when Gramps took office. The lowest price in the country was about $2.66, CNN found. Not one station sold gas for under $2.00 per gallon.
What makes this particular Trump whopper especially laughable and/or alarming is that anyone who actually buys gas knows what they have to pay for it.
But when you’re deliberately tanking the economy for no good reason, I guess you have to come up with some fig leaf to pretend you’re not. Or imagine one. Especially in the same week that Trump justified his Christmas-wrecking tariffs with his Marie Antoinette claim that American kids should make do with two dolls instead of 30.